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Gas boiler in living room cupboard
Anonymous user 23/02/2024 - 2.46 PM
I am thinking of buying a house with the boiler in the understairs cupboard (5 years old, no service history) in the living room. Is this legal, and providing all the other criteria fits would it be OK to replace with a condensing one? I understood you couldn't put a boiler in the living room, but not sure if its OK in a cupboard?
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Boiler Homecare
Rating: 5 out of 5
Very unusual to install a room sealed boiler in living room, but there are no current regs preventing this. As for the cupboard of your existing boiler, common practice to install a boiler in a redundant airing cupboard where once your hot water cylinder would have been.
All modern boilers now are condensing. I would keep the existing location for your new boiler, it may require compartment ventilation, but your installer should be aware of this if required.
In my first answer, I misread the information you provided, despite this, fitting a room sealed boiler in a cupboard under stairs is still acceptable practice, so no issues there, but still being classed as a compartment, new boiler may still require ventilation, as previously stated.
Answered14 August 2013
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