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Hi all,
I'm in the process of planning my new kitchen, part of which will be to get the existing gas system boiler replaced with a combi. One option is to get the new boiler installed in the same place, but if possible I'd like to get it moved as it currently intrudes on the work surface and severely limits the number of wall cupboards I can fit in.
There is only one other possible position in the kitchen where it wouldn't be in the way, the pipes could be routed to it and where it would (on the face of it) meet the building regs / Corgi requirements for the flue position. However there's one potential problem which neither of the Corgi installers I've had round to look really seem sure about. My house is the end house of a row of 5 terraced houses, with a two storey extension at the back where the kitchen is. Between my house and the start of the neighboring block of terraces there is a pathway about 1m wide which is a right of way for the owners of the other houses in the terraces to get to the rear of their houses. The neighbours house has also got an extension on the rear, but it is single storey with a low roof line (about 1.8m above the path level). If I get the boiler moved the flue will discharge about 2.2m above the pathway, 0.5m down the pathway from the corner of my house and about 1m from my neighbours opposing wall (there are no windows or openings in his wall). All seems ok so far, but the uncertainty comes from the property boundary positions. The pathway isn't actually owned by anyone (checked out by my solicitors when I bought the house). The walls of the houses on each side of it form the property boundaries, so although the flue would technically be over my boundary, it would actually be in a no mans land and still about 1m from my neighbours boundary.
Sorry for the long post, but can anyone shed any light on how permissable / sensible it would be to position my flue in this location? Thanks...
I'm in the process of planning my new kitchen, part of which will be to get the existing gas system boiler replaced with a combi. One option is to get the new boiler installed in the same place, but if possible I'd like to get it moved as it currently intrudes on the work surface and severely limits the number of wall cupboards I can fit in.
There is only one other possible position in the kitchen where it wouldn't be in the way, the pipes could be routed to it and where it would (on the face of it) meet the building regs / Corgi requirements for the flue position. However there's one potential problem which neither of the Corgi installers I've had round to look really seem sure about. My house is the end house of a row of 5 terraced houses, with a two storey extension at the back where the kitchen is. Between my house and the start of the neighboring block of terraces there is a pathway about 1m wide which is a right of way for the owners of the other houses in the terraces to get to the rear of their houses. The neighbours house has also got an extension on the rear, but it is single storey with a low roof line (about 1.8m above the path level). If I get the boiler moved the flue will discharge about 2.2m above the pathway, 0.5m down the pathway from the corner of my house and about 1m from my neighbours opposing wall (there are no windows or openings in his wall). All seems ok so far, but the uncertainty comes from the property boundary positions. The pathway isn't actually owned by anyone (checked out by my solicitors when I bought the house). The walls of the houses on each side of it form the property boundaries, so although the flue would technically be over my boundary, it would actually be in a no mans land and still about 1m from my neighbours boundary.
Sorry for the long post, but can anyone shed any light on how permissable / sensible it would be to position my flue in this location? Thanks...