gas boilers in children's bedrooms.....ok...or not?

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Hello, we've found a lovely house and the new combi boiler has been put in in the airing cupboard which just happens to be in the 2nd largest bedroom, where our DD2 would theoretically sleep for 11 hours each night. The boiler is in a ventilated cupboard in the corner near the outside wall.....anyone had any experience of this? We've made an offer but now I'm fretting. there is also no option of moving it to the kitchen or the loft (kitchen is all glass doors att he back so no outside wall to mount it on and the loft has been converted). Please help!! x

As long as it was a reasonably new, regularily serviced boiler and you installed a good carbon monoxide alarm, then I don't see why not. How old is your dd? There's no way she could get into the boiler and mess about with it is there?

my dds bedroom who she now shares whith her ds whos 8wks old has ,one in there room ,we get it looked at regulary and have a carbon detecter in there room no probs so far ,

from a practical point of view, it will be noisy and get very very warm in the room.

oh its got an alarm on

I'd move it to the loft (is this a bedrrom now or just useable space?)

Hi, no she's 4 so wouldn't fiddle with it. Just been doing some googling and apparently room sealed boilers are ok in bedrooms as they use air from outside to burn the gas, its the other type that suck air from the room that are potentially iffy as there is the possibility of carbon monoxide leaking back into the room. Will ring the agent tomorrow and try and find out which it is. Don't want it to be a deal breaker......but!

Can't go in the loft (been converted)

Pavlov, yes the noise and heat would also bother me too...much rather it was down in the kitchen....

fwiw, our (ancient) combi boiler is in a bathroom cupboard with louvre doors (which are usually open anyway) & heat isn't a problem.

It is noisy though.

Sorry, misread your OP. Is there an attached garage or understairs cupboard with space? I'm assuming not hence why it's in a bedroom in the first place.

no garage, big understairs cupboard but it has all the meters etc in it so not sure it would fit....

I would get it surveyed before you buy. You would probably have to pay for it, but it would give you peace of mind. If it was me, I'd get someone from British Gas to go in to do it.

you might not want to here this but if there is no other place for it I would consider how this is going to effect resale value of the property. This would be a big negative for lots of families. My new combi boiler sounds like a jet taking off (a quieter one than a real one of course!) but it is noisey. There is the very real possibility that it would wake the kids when the heating comes on in the morning in the winter, or when someone washes there hands, does the dishes once the kids have gone to sleep.

Yep I think you're right, my Dad reckons some mortgage companies wouldn't consider it a 4 bedroomed house as the room with the boiler in it would be classed as a utility room......

we have a boiler in ds's room

and a carbon monoxide alarm

no probs here

we moved it INTO his room out of new kitchen extension. Its fine

Our boiler was installed in our 'spare room' before we had kids 11 years ago, it is in a ventilated cupboard, near an outside wall. Now the children are here (ages 7 and 9) and they both sleep in this room. We have the boiler checked every year, and we have a carbon monoxide alarm installed. We have experienced no problem with this. We turn the heating off just before they go to bed and don't really run the hot water after they go to bed so there is no problem with noise.

We have recently had our house valued in order to sell and nothing was mentioned about this bedroom not counting as a bedroom because of the boiler.

aghhhh, you see now I'm confused but thankyou everyone! I guess I need to find out what type it is and investigate other sites if nec. DD2 sleeps well so i doubt it would wake her, it was really the poisoning risk and the resale of the house that was scaring me but maybe I was overly concerned...

The boiler was in DS's room in our old house. Wasn't hot, wasn't noisy, didn't affect the room being classed as a bedroom, didn't affect re-sale, in short, was no problem at all

We have our combi in our ds's room. Its not hot in there. It is noisy but thats not a problem, hes deaf. Nothing like taking advantage of his disability!!!

Saying that though, we are moving it downstairs as soon as the room has been built to put it in. We also have a carbon monoxide alarm which is loud enough for us to hear in another room as obviously ds wouldn't hear it and it has a bright flashing red light as well so he would know its a problem.

No.I would never put my kids in a room with a boiler - just in case,however many detectors i had in place.But that's just me!.