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Boiler in bedroom

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Marmablade · 18/05/2019 17:23

We have the choice to move the boiler from DD's wardrobe into the bathroom next door or leave it in her built in wardrobe. It's been serviced every year and it's a sealed system so no real danger (but of course there always might be perceived or possible danger).

Moving it will cost twice as much as keeping it where it is, when you factor in moving the flue, waste stack, rerouting pipes, boxing in the boiler to create a cupboard, plastering, moving toilet over etc.

£850 (+£800 for boiler) vs £1850

I have always wanted to move the boiler when it finally died and it's on its last legs so we definitely have to do it. However we want to move in the next 6-12 months and appreciate the boiler position might influence future buyers. But would it affect the selling price/saleability that much? £1k's worth? It's quite a sort after 3 double bedroom house. WWYD?

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WhatOnPlanetEarth · 18/05/2019 17:29

Is there anyone next door to you? I say this because the neighbours next door have theirs in a similar location and we actually hear noise from it

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Marmablade · 18/05/2019 17:33

It's mid terrace and it's an internal wall.

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BIWI · 18/05/2019 17:40

We have ours in a bedroom, and it actually means we now also have an airing cupboard, because of the heat it generates!

We had it moved from a downstairs cupboard to upstairs when we bought the house, so it's obviously not something that would put us off.

However, there are two key things to consider:

  1. You MUST make sure you have a carbon monoxide alarm fitted in the room
  1. Because ours is upstairs, with piping outside down to the ground, when we had the Beast from the East, that pipe froze and we were without heating and hot water for 5 days - because of its height, it was inaccessible, whereas if it had been on the ground floor that would have been easier to help thaw it out.

Taking those into account, if I were in your position, I'd just leave it.

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Marmablade · 18/05/2019 17:53

We don't have the pipe freezing worry fortunately and we do have 2 carbon monoxide monitors. One in the wardrobe and one on her bookcase. Neither has ever gone off.

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Jaz32 · 18/05/2019 18:09

We moved recently and the boiler is in our walk in wardrobe. I'd prefer it to be downstairs to be honest for possible health reasons and also the noise of it, but it is hidden out of the way in there. We won't be replacing it for a couple of years and then we will think about moving it depending on cost.

Freddiefox · 18/05/2019 19:22

I don’t like boilers in the bedroom, I would think twice about buying a house with a boiler in a bedroom.

ManchesterBorn · 18/05/2019 19:28

Yes, it would put me off.

They are noisy, they use storage space.
If it's a "regular" one with hot water tank, that would put me off even more, that generates far too much heat.

I don't like the idea at all, I'd rather have it in the bathroom, or the kitchen if there's no other choice .

I am not sure it affects the selling price as such, but it would absolutely put me off.

IncyWincyGrownUp · 18/05/2019 19:32

I refused point blank to have a boiler upstairs when my central heating was fitted. It was quite the stand off between me and the council. I won.

BIWI · 18/05/2019 20:02

Why though?

mookinsx · 18/05/2019 20:07

Boiler was in my bedroom growing up
Had a carbon monoxide alarm and personally loved it as a very cold person my room was always warmer

Csleeptime · 18/05/2019 20:10

Having renovated a couple of houses and had numerous meetings with estate agents I would say as you are replacing it anyway it is worth moving. It will put some people off.

Yogagirl123 · 18/05/2019 20:12

I wouldn’t buy a house with a boiler in a bedroom either tbh.

ManchesterBorn · 18/05/2019 20:32

my room was always warmer

but what about spring and summer? Still need hot water, but really don't need any source of heating in the room.

CottonSock · 18/05/2019 20:34

Ours is in spare room. Used to be baby room. I have it serviced and 2x detectors. Main problem is it wakes me if I escape to spare room due to dh snoring/ insomnia

IncyWincyGrownUp · 18/05/2019 21:02

BIWI was the why for me? If so, because the boilers our council use are notoriously noisy, and combines with the (admittedly small) risk of carbon monoxide leaks I wasn’t prepared to have it upstairs. Also, I have a utility room and stuff like boilers belong there. The planning man was not happy but did say it didn’t make any difference. He just wanted it upstairs. It still makes a right racket when it boots into action at stupid hours of the night, but it’s a more tolerable racket for being tucked away in a room off the kitchen.

CakeNinja · 18/05/2019 21:14

It wouldn’t put us off but my dp is a gas engineer and would move it ASAP, otherwise as you know it costs a lot to get someone in to move it.
Neither of us would have a boiler in a cupboard in a bedroom for the obvious reasons, even carbon monoxide meters aren’t foolproof and they make a room uncomfortably hot during warmer months without even taking the noise into consideration.
Saying that, I’m not sure everyone would necessarily be put off, some wouldn’t even notice until they’d moved in and had lived with it for a while.

VenusClapTrap · 18/05/2019 23:10

It wouldn’t put me off because my childhood bedroom had the boiler/airing cupboard in it. It was the only warm room in the house. I don’t ever remember it being too hot in the summer months (cold windswept northern village in the foothills of the Pennines though).

Cherrysoup · 18/05/2019 23:35

Mine’s in our bedroom, but on an external wall which has vents expressly for it.

MaddieElla · 18/05/2019 23:38

Nope. I hear mine fire up and down from the utility room downstairs if I have to sleep in the spare room and that's bad enough. Far too noisy to have it in a bedroom.

buttery81 · 19/05/2019 08:15

Mine’s in the bathroom and I think that’s the perfect place for it. I’d take the plunge and move it OP!

Clutterfreeintraining · 19/05/2019 08:25

Mine's been in my bedroom for about 8 years and no issues with it at all.
The space I lost in the fitted wardrobe was more than made up for by the gain it created in the kitchen.
Like a pp, I had the frozen pipe thing during the beast from the east but I was advised to keep the inside section of the pipe warm and it fixed it Smile

greenlynx · 19/05/2019 08:31

I wouldn’t like boiler in the bedroom either and would offer less in this situation. I wouldn’t count this room as a bedroom.

borntobequiet · 19/05/2019 08:39

I had a house with the gas combi boiler/airing cupboard in a bedroom (my daughter’s). The bedroom was better for her for a number of reasons (not facing street, space for a desk). If I could have moved it I would have, I was always faintly worried about it. Replacing the older noisier boiler with a new one meant that noise wasn’t an issue. She used to put her school uniform in with it overnight to be nice and warm in the morning.

flumpybear · 19/05/2019 08:39

I wouldn't buy a house with a boiler in the bedroom -, can you put it in the loft?

borntobequiet · 19/05/2019 08:40

I meant to say - move it if you can. It could put buyers off.