We have bought a 1950s house to renovate (while living in it which is exhausting). We merrily knocked out the fireplace which was blocked up, and there is an old back boiler in there. It's not in use, as there is a newish boiler elsewhere.
My question is, is it safe to just take it out ourselves or should we get someone in to do it, and in which case, who? Is it a plumber we need? The pipes are all in the wall so hard to tell where they go and if they are still connected. I can't imagine it is still connected after all these years (the people we bought it from had lived here for 15 years and it was boarded up when they got it).
Advice would be appreciated from anyone who's come across one of these before. Google hasn't helped and we don't want to pay a plumber to come out if that's the wrong person. We're hoping this isn't an enormous job, but as everything else we do in this sodding moneypit has turned out to be, I won't be too surprised if it is.