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can you put a boiler in the bathroom?

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shrub · 05/02/2006 22:13

we are due to start renovating and boiler is currently in living room. house is tiny and the only place that i think may work would be bathroom. is this allowed? has anyone done this? just can't lose cupboard space in kitchen and thought most kitchens get condensation so hoping bathroom may be answer....
thanks

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NannyL · 05/02/2006 22:17

my grandmother has her boiler within a built in cupbaord in the bathroom...

the house is 1970s and built llike that if it helps

Twiglett · 05/02/2006 22:18

our boiler is a combi and is in the office upstairs .. but the british gas engineers always comment on how unusual that is

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shrub · 05/02/2006 22:22

oh so not such a bad idea then, maybe....

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shimmy21 · 05/02/2006 22:28

Yup. Ours is in the bathroom because when the one in our kitchen died we weren't allowed to put a new one there due to ventilation or something.

jmb1964 · 06/02/2006 23:24

Yes, we have large combi one in a cupboard high up in the bathroom, with a vent out through the outside wall for the steam to puff out of.. It is quite noisy, as well as big, so beats having it in the kitchen. We also have a big pulley in there for drying all the washing, beacuse it's always nice and warm.

JanH · 06/02/2006 23:34

The main considerations are ventilation and safety of wiring - unless your bathroom is big enough to have the boiler electrics completely out of reach of wet hands it wouldn't be approved. Ours is in the bathroom like jmb's and NannyL's grandmother's but has to be vented outside and in a ventilated cupboard.

ChicPea · 07/02/2006 00:23

I thought that this was not allowed in case you lay in the bath, fell sleep, the pilot light went out and you died of gas inhilation. Or am I wrong?

Jasnem · 07/02/2006 07:52

I had mine in the bathroom, and when it died this year, the new one wentin the same place - In a cupboard on an outside wall in the bathroom. It doesn't have a pilot light - it has an electric thing that relights it when it's used.

hazlinh · 07/02/2006 08:49

my flat in london has the boiler in the guest bathroom. although the bathrooom is not really used much for toilet, bath purposes. it is where the washing machine is, and we do all the laundry there.

but wiring and venting all outside.

think it's perfectly safe. it was built that way when we bought the place in 1990!!has survived til now

Kathy1972 · 07/02/2006 18:54

when British Gas came round to give me a (ridiculous) quote for a new one they said that with modern boilers being properly sealed there is no problem with it.

shimmy21 · 07/02/2006 19:22

Ours had to be in a boxed cupboard but as we were installing a new bathroom they were quite happy to put the boiler in without the cupboard as long as we said it was going to be done eventually. It took us more than a year but now we have the boiler ina nice airing cupboard with removable side for boiler servicing.

LIZS · 07/02/2006 19:33

afaik a bathroom isn't necessarily a problem but the "rules" change so frequently that you are best getting an expert opinion. We had ours replaced 7 years ago by BG and moved it onto an adjoining wall in same corner of the kitchen with side ventilation to the outside, altering the vent position by about 18 inches. At our recent BG check was told it no longer meets regulations as it is now not quite 18 inches away from the cloakroom window with a opening top panel.

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shrub · 08/02/2006 13:03

thanks for taking time to reply everyone so its a yes then!

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