Condensate pipe route for new boiler

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Good morning, my combi boiler is 10 yeas.old and has a water leak, so I’m thinking it’s time to replace. I’m trying to get an idea of solutions for routing the condensate pipe before I contact heating engineers. Currently the condensate pipe goes along the skirting through the outside wall and into the shared unadopted alley. I understand regs have changed and it would now need a soak away, I also believe you can’t put a soak away into a shared alley way. ( shared with 8 houses, most rented)
The boiler is downstairs, in a small space about 4 x 4 foot by the bathroom. This whole are has concrete floor. So can’t route pipe under floor, the only thing I can think of is running pipe around the wall, cutting into bathroom wall and attaching to bath drain. If anyone has any ideas I’d be very grateful.


Photo- boiler on right, condensate under radiator. Door to alley, wall on right is bathroom.
 

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Hard to really say from the picture, this is something that would be much easier to sort during a site visit. 10 years isn't that old for a boiler though, can't the leak be repaired?
 
Hi, thank you for reply, the boiler is still working perfectly, just very slow drip, I think I will consider repair first, Worcester do offer a fixed price repair to replace 3 main parts for about £300. I did call them book them into for this last year, but the engineer took the cover off and refused to do anymore as there were mice droppings ( which I could have cleared out myself. Still got the £250 bill though.
 
Thank you for your reply, I’ve been wracking my brains on this one, the only way I can envisage that is a pump and the pipe going up the wall along the ceiling and outside into the alley, but there’s no guttering there, so that wouldn’t meet building regs, I guess the pipe could go at skirting level and through a hole into the bathroom, and into the bath waste, do you know if it’s a definite no to put a soakaway in shared unadopted alley? It’s basically used as a weed infested dumping ground
 
Fin the boiler is on the right and the bathroom on the right, surely it would be easier and better to terminate in the bathroom, but as per @muggles a site visit would be best.
 

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