Boiler in bedroom

[mary123]

Hello.

We discussed boiler in bedrooms at team meeting yesterday and risk to life re carbon dixoide..do you have a boiler in your bedroom, should i request my housing association to reloate it as a risk?

[holloway]

boilers in bedrooms sounds worrying. i wouldn't fancy it even if it was new or recently serviced. think you mean carbon monoxide incidentally, sorry to be pedant.

[KidKruger]

the carbon monoxide will spread out across the apartment won't it ?

Not sure if there's regulations saying you cannot sleep in a room just because it has a boiler in it.

the boiler should be serviced/certificated anyway, right ?

[mary123]

Thanks for typo holloway..

Food for thought..at the team meeting it was discussed an Occupational Therapist got struck off for placing/recommending a patient to live in a micto environment with boiler in the sleeping environment , got me thinking about my boiler in my bedroom

[alice]

modern boilers do not let any fumes back in the room. of course it needs to be regularly checked and have a carbon monoxide detector - landlords responsibility. but plenty of flats have them there.

[mikeb]

Pretty sure my brother has a boiler installed in the bedroom of one of his kids, boxed in a cupboard. Knowing him, this was definitely signed off by building regs etc.

[red devil]

You can have a boiler in a bedroom as long as it's a 'room sealed' bolier, which means it draws air from the outside and exhausts it outside too...

[LondonMix]

Lot's of flats have boilers in bedrooms. Many people when converting their lofts locate the boiler in the loft bedroom. Its fine. You should have carbon monoxide detectors either way.

[Blah Blah]

I grew up with a boiler in my bedroom! These days, landlords have to have the boiler serviced every year (that is the law), so the real danger is not actually private landlords, but those of us that own our own homes and only get an engineer in when the thing breaks down. Personally, we get ours serviced every year too - better safe than sorry - although the boiler is in the kitchen, not a bedroom. And servicing isn't just the boiler, but all the gas applainces and the meter too.

[Pugwash]

We have our gas appliance including CH boiler twice a year on average.

[mary123]

Thank you everyone for replies, has made me feel better

[Mick Mac]

We have one in a bedroom. With a carbon monoxide detector as recommended by fitter as a precaution.

[uncleglen]

apart from the noise factor e.g. mine goes on at 5.30 am for hot water, or both in the winter, and as long as the safety precautions are in place- which as it's housing association they will be bang up to date and serviced every year,...there should not be a problem.

[DulwichFox]

The problem with boilers in the bedroom is not just carbon monoxide..

Bedrooms tend to be upstairs away from your outside drain.

.. it is the dainage.. Modern combi-boilers have a Condensate Trap. When full it purge through Condenate Drainage Pipe

to an outside drain.

There are STRICK regulations about how the CONDENSATE DRAINAGE PIPE is fitted and routed.

It needs to be the shortest outside route to your drain. It CANNOT be discharged onto or into the ground.

During winter care is needed to ensure the pipe does not freeze. This would Seriously damage your boiler.

The pressure build up could cause it to explode.

DulwichFox

[nxjen]

People living in first, second, third etc floor flats manage to have boilers fitted. The condensate drainage pipe is generally run diagonally on the outside wall into a sink or bath downpipe and covered with a foam plastic sleeve.

[alice]

Please! exploding boilers?

[Salsaboy]

The problem with the condensate pipe freezing is down to an inadequate pipe size being used. When they first came out 22mm overflow pipe was used. This froze as the bore is too small. 32mm waste pipe is now to be used and it must discharge into a drain, either internal or external. Horizontal runs of the pipe are not allowed as this encourages the condensate liquid to lay in the pipe and thus be liable to freezing as well.

As for boilers exploding due to this. Never. It won't happen. Too many safety systems on the boiler.