Combi location new install

[William_b]

Hello all. Bit if a strange one this. Plumber wants to install the new combi boiler in the bedroom on the adjoining wall with next door, possibly the furthest point in the house away from a gas supply, knocking through the ceiling and exiting the flue through the roof.
However we want to have it installed in the kitchen, which is an outside wall located near where the mains water and gas enter the property, where other people of the same property type have theirs. We are told that there isn't enough space either side (!?!) but there are no cupboards or anything and the wall is wider than the width of the boiler. There is an outside door to one side and a window to the other. Any ideas as to why the plumber seems to want to install it in the most weirdest of places?

Thank you.

 

[Last Plumber]

Hello all. Bit if a strange one this. Plumber wants to install the new combi boiler in the bedroom on the adjoining wall with next door, possibly the furthest point in the house away from a gas supply, knocking through the ceiling and exiting the flue through the roof.
However we want to have it installed in the kitchen, which is an outside wall located near where the mains water and gas enter the property, where other people of the same property type have theirs. We are told that there isn't enough space either side (!?!) but there are no cupboards or anything and the wall is wider than the width of the boiler. There is an outside door to one side and a window to the other. Any ideas as to why the plumber seems to want to install it in the most weirdest of places?

Thank you.

He must be able to give a reason?
There's nothing wrong in it being in a bedroom. Perhaps he thinks it is easier for other pipework?
e.g. flow and return connections, hot and cold water etc. if it is going where a cylinder is now?

Are the door and window too close to the flue? normally around 300mm away min to the opening but check boiler manufacturers instructions for that distance. Could he use a plume kit to take the exhaust up and away from those openings.

Need more detail really and photo's can help.

 

[snowhead]

As above, plus just because other houses have the boiler and flue in that location doesn't mean they comply with the regs.

Ask the plumber to explain in more detail, it might make more sense.

If fitted in your preferred location would the boiler flue face across to next doors property and if so how far is the boundary?

 

[Ben-gee]

As others have said, when your plumber says there’s not enough space either side - he is almost certainly referring to the flue arrangements and not the physical siting of the boiler on the wall.

This is a potentially good sign in many ways as he is concerned with sticking to regs. However maybe communication could be better, and also a plume kit could get over this?

 

[Scott_D]

Post some pictures of where you want it fitted.

 

[oz-plumber]

With combi's, you want them as close as possible to the most used taps.

You don't want to wait 15 minutes for luke warm water to dribble out from your kitchen sink tap.
And the same with a a basin tap to wash your hands.