Long shot, hope someone can help.
We have just rented a flat with the above old 55K BTU boiler sited in the kitchen, I'm a little worried about it's venting, smells etc and hope someone can help.
Boiler is not enclosed, the kitchen is about 4m x 2m, and has a wooden door to the outside. The boiler is located on the inside wall and the flue via asbestos pipe goes up the chimney. In compliance the agents service the boiler once a year (I have seen cert) using their own engineer. There is also an aging gas oven in the area.
1. On ignition the boiler emits odour for about 30 secs, smells like emission rather than gas.
2. The only vent in the kitchen is a closeable circular 6" plastic vent embedded in the glass window pane, recently cleaned and reinstalled by agents fixer. It's of the type I have not seen for years, 2 pull cords to open and close, small manual fan on outside, if wind blows hard it turns!
The kitchen joins the 4M x 4M dining room, no vents. Each other living space has a similar plastic vent in one window. (Previous gas appliances removed in these areas).
My worry is yesterday my wife spent all day in the dining room, kitchen door open, heating on. At about 6pm she started complaining about headache, dizzyness and feeling sick, I had to lead her around in case she fell over.
I'm off to get co alarm today, but can anyone advise me? Agent is not really worried - he has his cert.
Many thanks,
Neil.
We have just rented a flat with the above old 55K BTU boiler sited in the kitchen, I'm a little worried about it's venting, smells etc and hope someone can help.
Boiler is not enclosed, the kitchen is about 4m x 2m, and has a wooden door to the outside. The boiler is located on the inside wall and the flue via asbestos pipe goes up the chimney. In compliance the agents service the boiler once a year (I have seen cert) using their own engineer. There is also an aging gas oven in the area.
1. On ignition the boiler emits odour for about 30 secs, smells like emission rather than gas.
2. The only vent in the kitchen is a closeable circular 6" plastic vent embedded in the glass window pane, recently cleaned and reinstalled by agents fixer. It's of the type I have not seen for years, 2 pull cords to open and close, small manual fan on outside, if wind blows hard it turns!
The kitchen joins the 4M x 4M dining room, no vents. Each other living space has a similar plastic vent in one window. (Previous gas appliances removed in these areas).
My worry is yesterday my wife spent all day in the dining room, kitchen door open, heating on. At about 6pm she started complaining about headache, dizzyness and feeling sick, I had to lead her around in case she fell over.
I'm off to get co alarm today, but can anyone advise me? Agent is not really worried - he has his cert.
Many thanks,
Neil.
