Where to put a new boiler - old boiler has no ventilation

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Hi, please can you give me some advice regarding an issue at my parent's house. They have an almost 30 year old boiler that will need to be replaced soon. It has been serviced every year and they have a co2 monitor fitted.

My parents are the type to put their heads in the sand and ignore a problem, then freak out when something needs doing urgently...so I'm hoping to gather some info now to hopefully to help/pre-empt this.

The issue is this. The boiler has no ventilation and is in the back corner of the kitchen. These days, boilers need to have ventilation to the outside to meet building regulations (please correct me if this is wrong) so the new boiler would have to be in a different position. This would probably mean a new kitchen, which my parents are aware of.

So if you can imagine a small square kitchen, with a large lean to conservatory to the front of it, dining room to the right and garage to the left. I have attached a diagram as it's easier to see it than explain. So basically there is no outside wall to the kitchen. Next to the kitchen window are some water pipes one side and a door next to it. The conservatory has a glass roof and stretches all the way along the back of the house.

Above the kitchen is the bathroom (where the pipes come from) and above the dining room is the 2nd bedroom. There is nothing above the garage.

If you have experience of this sort of thing, please could you advise me where the new boiler could be located?

Thanks so much

Hi OP, the boiler could be vented through the roof.

Can they not use an extended flue/chimney to reach the fresh air above the conservatory?

In the loft

So sorry OP, was thinking it was a bungalow.🙄
Could it be moved into the garage ?

Could you ask British Gas for a no obligation estimate for the work needed? You’d get the advice you need.

Wall-hung boiler in the cloakroom?

I’d say in the garage on an external wall. We had our boiler in the garage at our old house and it was fine!

Thanks for the suggestions - these all sound like good solutions. I was thinking along the extended flue lines, but not sure how that would work taking into account the layout of the kitchen...for example there are cabinets on the wall.

Is there space for the combi boiler in the bathroom or could it be put in the garage we have ours in a bathroom and it's fine as long as it's away from the bath/shower. If they have a normal boiler where is the hot water tank can the boiler go there.

In terms of relocating the boiler, how would that work re the gas pipes? Apologies if I sound thick. Do the pipes go under the floor for example?

The hot water tank is in the attic. I'm thinking garage might be the best solution.

Pipes can go under floorboards or be boxed in up walls if the boiler is that old you would probably need a new pipe from the gas meter anyway.

I think it could go in the garage. We had ours moved from a bedroom to the garage. It's vented through the garage wall, not the roof. Our gas pipes then run alongside the house & go into the house where they are needed.

I'd go for the garage , easy to run pipes in a garage less disruption to the rest of the house.