My neighbors gas flue plumes directly into our garden.

[Gary McIntosh]

My neighbors gas flue plumes directly into my back garden. It pours onto our patio, and our bedroom window cant bee opened due to the fumes, we even have to keep the trickle vent closed. Is there a legal distance or direction to which this should be facing ?

 

[IsaacNewt]

If it's England, I believe it's covered by part j of the building regs (link below). This has some simple pictures in showing different settings. Rest of uk is essentially the same, I think, but different documents.

Modern domestic boilers should have very low NOx and CO emissions, and PM will be negligible, so your principal concern is probably odour rather than anything which will harm you (in case that makes you feel any better)

https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...-and-fuel-storage-systems-approved-document-j

 

[just pumps]

https://www.diynot.com/diy/posts/4916424/

 

[FiremanT]

My neighbors gas flue plumes directly into my back garden. It pours onto our patio, and our bedroom window cant bee opened due to the fumes, we even have to keep the trickle vent closed. Is there a legal distance or direction to which this should be facing ?

How long had the offending boiler been on that position? Is their wall the boundary, if not , how far from the boundary

 

[CBW]

Any photo(s) of setup?

 

[Gary McIntosh]

How long had the offending boiler been on that position? Is their wall the boundary, if not , how far from the boundary

The house was lying empty for years, until the new owners moved in about a year ago. We didn't experience the flue until they started using the boiler. The boiler is very old an by our neighbor's own admission needs replaced. They don't seem to be in any hurry to change it.

 

[Gary McIntosh]

Any photo(s) of setup?

Our bedroom window is just to the right of the shot.

 

[Tigercubrider]

The bush and building to the left are yours?

 

[Gary McIntosh]

How long had the offending boiler been on that position? Is their wall the boundary, if not , how far from the boundary

The house was lying empty for years, until the new owners moved in about a year ago. We didn't experience the flue until they started using the boiler. The boiler is very old an by our neighbor's own admission needs replaced. They don't seem to be in any hurry to change it.

Read more: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/...irectly-into-our-garden.568247/#ixzz6r9p3BP9J

 

[Gary McIntosh]

The bush and building to the left are yours?

That's the neighbouring fence, the wall is their kitchen

 

[Tigercubrider]

So who "owns" the air beside the flue?

 

[vxxbcks]

Seems like it needs a plume kit to follow the roof line then go up vertical some distance and maybe angled opposite to the path to the window at the terminal.

 

[Gasguru]

Modern domestic boilers should have very low NOx and CO emissions, and PM will be negligible, so your principal concern is probably odour rather than anything which will harm you (in case that makes you feel any better)

Unfortunately, that couldn't be further from the truth...modern boilers do have much lower NOx levels but their CO levels can be extreme due to the modern burner design and minimal excess air they run with.
A correctly set up boiler will normally have low CO. ..less than 2 or 300 ppm but half a turn out on a gas valve adjustment is all it takes to produce CO ppms in the 1000s.
This is the downside of modern design, there is little margin for error...it's the consequence of reducing thermal NOx. Older balanced flue boilers were much safer with considerable excess air.

Commercial boilers push the combustion efficiencies even more and it's not uncommon to have CO ppms of 10,000+ from incorrect combustion.

If the flue terminal is over the boundary it's a non compliant installation.

 

[Nige F]

Our bedroom window is just to the right of the shot.

along toward the camera on the wall with the bush ?

 

[CBW]

If the flue terminal is over the boundary it's a non compliant installation.

Looks like it’s over the boundary imo.