How much of a turn off is a boiler in a bedroom?

[OxDoc]

Hello, a 1-bed flat I'm considering buying has the boiler in the bedroom, since there isn't anywhere suitable for it to go in the kitchen or bathroom. I'm weighing up how much it would affect my enjoyment of the property, and I don't think there are serious safety issues if the boiler is well-serviced, but I'm also wondering how much less desirable would this make the property when it came to selling later or renting it out? It would be very useful to know how would this affect whether you would be interested to buy or rent such a property - would it be no big deal, would you still consider the property but only if the price were lower, or would you not consider such a property at all?

I ask because I've read threads by people considering whether to move a boiler to/from a bedroom, and there seem to be both people who are not bothered and people who say they'd be very concerned about it, but I can't tell if there is a large fraction of people who would actually never buy such a place.

Thanks very much if you can reply.

Is it in a cupboard or open in the bedroom? It would put me off, they can be a bit noisy when firing up sometimes.

I have a boiler in a cupboard in my bedroom.
It is annoying, not going to lie.
It makes the room very hot in the Summer and it is noisy.
It’s not ideal.

No.......oooooo

It is in a cupboard - yes good point, I should have said.

Thanks for those replies.

@RunningFromInsanity

I have a boiler in a cupboard in my bedroom. It is annoying, not going to lie. It makes the room very hot in the Summer and it is noisy. It’s not ideal.

Can I ask what kind of boiler that is? Is it very modern? A combi, or does it have a hot water tank it's always trying to keep warm? I was figuring it would only potentially be disturbingly noisy in the morning when it comes on, which I don't think would need to be that long before I'd get up. Does it turn out to be more annoying than that in practice?

My boiler is in my bedroom in a cupboard

It is silent, and makes no difference to my enjoyment of the room

Don't. There was a boiler in my 2nd bedroom in my last house and during summer it was as hot as Hades in there and the boiler kept guests awake all night. Never again.

It's a very hard NO from me. No way.

We have a combi boiler in a cupboard in my daughter's bedroom. Doesn't bother her at all. We have a carbon monoxide alarm.

@elizabethdraper

My boiler is in my bedroom in a cupboard

It is silent, and makes no difference to my enjoyment of the room

Thanks. Do you know the make and model? It would be good to know there is a good boiler option if I bought this place and found the current boiler too annoying.

Same as above. We have a boiler in the bedroom, it's in a cupboard.

Our house retains heat well so there's no need for it to be on overnight, it comes on with our alarm on a winter morning.

We have a CO monitor next to it which is tested weekly.

We've also just sold our house and none of the viewers (we had a few offers) seemed put off by it.

@Shehasadiamondinthesky

Don't. There was a boiler in my 2nd bedroom in my last house and during summer it was as hot as Hades in there and the boiler kept guests awake all night. Never again.

Thanks. Again, it would be good to know if that was very modern and whether there was a hot water tank involved?

It depends on the flat. A boiler in a large bedroom that has a functioning window isn’t as as big of an issue especially if it’s new.

Thanks also for all the other replies, which are very helpful. I'm not quite managing to keep up it seems!

I have one in my bedroom and it’s annoying as all hell. In the winter when the heating is on a cycle it’s going to be hideous. Don’t do it.

@Andthenanothercupoftea according to our plumber, your co alarm should be on the opposite wall near the ceiling as co rises and will float along the ceiling, so if it's next to the boiler it might not set the alarm off in time.

We had a combi boiler in our bedroom in our first flat. It was in a cupboard and it didn't bother us. We didn't have the heating on at night though.

I have a boiler in my bedroom in a cupboard. The room does not get hot in summer and I don’t hear the heating come on in the winter. It was installed almost two years ago now and it was put there because there was no other place in the whole flat to put it.

I have a combi boiler in a cupboard in my bedroom, and it doesn't bother me at all and it wouldn't (and didn't) put me off a flat.

I don't think it generates any heat, and it isn't noisy although I suppose it has woken me briefly when it lights at 6am in winter. Once it's on though it settles to a low hum.

I would be very uncomfortable with that. CO alarms need to be correctly positioned and less than 7(?) Years old to be effective, so it is scarily easy to end up without the safeguard you think you had.

They also get noisier as they age. Sleep disruption when it's long term is harder to deal with than an occasional incident. Or if you're ill and trying to rest and it kicks in. Or you need it on earlier than you realised or more frequently than you expect.

And when it needs servicing that means someone going into your bedroom, which may not bother you but might bother other people.

When you say it's in a cupboard, do you mean a proper cupboard with stud walls and a wooden door or a fibreboard kitchen cupboard type one that is just there to encase it for aesthetics?

If it worries you having it in your sleepspace, it will play on your mind whatever anybody else says about how unconcerned they are.

It's a no from me, but I wouldn't not buy a place because of it, just value the property less the cost of having it moved/replaced.

I agree with the safety and comfort issues already mentioned. I’d also find it could really reinforce the “one bed-ness” of your flat when selling. A boiler than can’t fit in the kitchen, living area, hallway or bathroom screams “this flat has no space” in a very specific way to me. So I’d expect you’d see a real impact on value by having a smaller buyer pool. (Which means you could bargain down if you can find a creative place to move it to once you do own it)

We have a boiler in a (large) airing cupboard in our loft bedroom. Silent, unless anything is going wrong, and doesn't make the room hot. It's a Vaillant.

Nope.

And I’d second the comment that it’d really highlight how tiny the flat is, if the boiler doesn’t fit anywhere else.

I'm quite a heavy sleeper but would find this annoying in a bedroom. Ours burps, wooshes, refills its pipes etc from time to
time and I'd find it disturbing.