Would you a buy a flat if the combi boiler was in the main bedroom?

[Linnet]

We are looking into replacing our very archiac back boiler with a nice new modern combi boiler.

Now, where the gas meter is situated in the flat is the furthest point from the kitchen, where most people seem to have them.

One of our neighbours had her boiler replaced last year and it's been installed in the main bedroom inside a built in wardrobe. Another neighbour has hers in her kitchen.

We will, in time, come to sell this flat and I'm trying to decide if where the boiler goes would maybe have any bearing on selling.

What do you think?

I've just remembered we had the boiler in our bedroom in our first flat. I didn't think anything of it at the time though I think I'd probably find it a bit odd now.

If I loved the rest of the flat it wouldn't put me off, but if it's one of the many things I wasn't sure about then perhaps it would. Not very helpful, is it?!

The location of your gas meter has no bearing on where your boiler can be situated.
Our gas meter is in the hall, and our boiler is in a cupboard in the dining room.

We originally had a back boiler behind the dining room fire, and it was fairly simple to build a large cupboard in the dining room to house the new boiler.
The kitchen (or utility) is a common sense place to put the boiler if possible. In our case, we did not have a gas supply into the kitchen(and it would have meant removing loads of kitchen units to get the gas pipes into the kitchen), which is why we kept our new boiler in the dining room.

Given a choice of bedroom or kitchen, I'd prefer the boiler to be in the kitchen.

I viewed a flat years ago with the boiler in the second bedroom. Put me right off, sorry!

Kitchen would be best. Or bathroom if you have any space in a cupboard?

I rented a flat with a boiler in the bedroom - I must say it did bother me at the time as it woke me up when it came on! However, it was an old one so I imagine the modern versions are much quieter and smaller these days although tbh it would put me off if I was thinking about buying!

No I wouldn't. They make quite a noise when they turn on so this would def put me off.

Thanks very much for your answers. Unfotunately we can't get it put in the bathroom as there isn't the space.

Eaglebird, it's interesting what you say about it not mattering where the gas meter is.

I'll see what they say when we get our quotes done next week. I think part of the problem with the kitchen is that there is a stone floor so they are unable to pipe under floorboards in the kitchen as they would do in all the other rooms.

Thanks again

Mine has never woken me up or anyone who has slept in that room but then I turn the heating off at night - doesn't everyone? Mine's in my 2nd bedroom - it's the only place it can be because it needs to be on a proper outside wall and half my flat is underground

We turn our heating off at night, but in the winter it comes on before getting-up time so that the house is warm when we get up - say an hour or so before. So it would wake us up if it was in our bedroom.

In our old house the boiler is in the second bedroom and our tenant has her daughter in there - she's never complained about the boiler being in there or anything. Maybe her daughter is a heavy sleeper, or perhaps she doesn't have the heating come on til after she gets up anyway.

It would put me off to have the boiler in the main bedroom from a noise perspective and also if it needed servicing/attention it means there's an engineer in your bedroom which some people might find more invasive than having them in the kitchen or whatever.

I had a central heating system put in in a ground floor flat that had concrete floors throughout. was very messy, they had to dig 'channels' in the concrete for the pipes, but it was fine.

We have our combi boiler in the 2nd bedroom and we've put our deaf son in there as he wouldn't be disturbed by the noise. But I'm not happy with it being in a bedroom and I've got a carbon monoxide alarm and one of those dot test things as well in the boiler cupboard. I'm totally paranoid about it and we're going to have the boiler moved when we have the extension built. It obviously didn't stop us buying the property but the cost of moving it was a cost we factored in when we made our offer.

Linnet, Do you have a gas cooker in your kitchen?
If so, the installer could maybe just extend the gas pipe feeding the cooker to a suitable position for the boiler without having to dig up the stone floor.

However,4 other pipes will need to be connected to the boiler, which might entail digging the floor up, depending on how the pipes are currently run -

1. cold water in
2. hot water out
3. central heating flow
4. central heating return

I'm sure you'll get something sorted. Every problem has a solution.

We do have a gas cooker in our kitchen, I'll see what they say, I have a list of questions.

I'm just worried that they will mention digging up the floor, we'd have to rip out bits of the kitchen for them to do that and that would just send the costs rocketing.

But I will be patient and I will wait and see what they say next week.

Hello again, well today we had the first guy out to give us a quote and he said that it would be no problem to put the boiler in the kitchen. We'll lose a cupboard, but we knew that anyway,and they'll be able to pipe it along the wall and behind the cooker, coming up through a cupboard and countertop to where the boiler would be.

Obviously we'll be getting more than just one quote but he seemed quite happy that there would be no need to rip out kitchen copboards or drill through concrete floors, thank goodness.

Just got to wait on the quote coming through now.