Outside Boiler Box Idea

[Big_Jon]

Hello

I was just wanting some advice. I need to move my boiler, I am going to mount it on a wall that will in the garage when I get around to building the garage. So I will build a box around the boiler to protect it from the weather/cold etc, and so will be outside to speak of.

The box will have 75mm foam insulation as I have that left over from a previous job. I was going to skin the outside of the box with StokBord, which is plastic sheet, so it won't rot, and I don't have to treat it and is also free. However I wanted to use stokbord for the inside skin as well, but reading about it, it asks for flame proof materials. So if stokbord not allowed, then I was thinking sheet metal or plasterboard maybe?

But I was thinking boilers are can be mounted in airing cupboards, which are usually wood and hardboard/sheet wood construction.

So I am just wondering would you say stokbord will be ok to line the inside of the boiler box, or is metal or plasterboard a better alternative to keep the regulations happy?

 

[CountryFan]

Before that can be answered, we need to know the make and model of boiler.

 

[simplesteve]

Pardon me for being thick:- are we discussing a cupboard construction for a wall in a garage that hasn’t been built yet ?

 

[thomp1983]

I think we're discussing a box on a current outside wall that will become internal to the garage once built.

I did similar with our consumer unit as it was in the old conservatory we demolished but that was alot simpler as I only had to make it water proof not frost proof.