boiler flues are these here legal?

[surfnutt]

Hi i live in a sheltered accommodation flat on the first floor, my two dormer windows look out onto a flat roof and there are 3 communal boilers on the ground floor in a boiler room with 5 flues leading vertically to the flat roof, the flues are 3.5 meters from my Dormer window and the height of them is level with the bottom of my dormer window, is the height of them legal should they be higher because i have been getting headaches when i have my windows open and the white

plume is blown towards my windows, i have a co2/ co detector and its not been triggered, but i still am trying to find out if the height is legal, i enclose a picture of the flues if there is anyone who could advise me before i take it up with my housing scheme

 

[Madrab]

1.5m as a general guide for a vertical flue to an open window - Boiler MI would normally dictate.

If you CO detector isn't registering it then it suggests it isn't getting to nuisances levels.

Number 10 on the diagram

 

[gas112]

Strange looking flues as no terminals they look more like soil pipes the 2 further away look like the boiler flues

 

[Deleted member 267285]

Not sure why you’d have 3 boilers and 5 flues, something doesn’t add up. Also, as per @gas112, they don’t look like a boiler flue, as no terminal.

 

[surfnutt]

I have checked and they are connected to the boilers they are definatley flues, i will try to find out more info on them from scheme

 

[Agile]

What does the thick UR67 style cable connect to ?

 

[RandomGrinch]

What does the thick UR67 style cable connect to ?

Looks like some antenna, on an unguarded roof, that an occupant of sheltered accommodation really shouldn't have access to?

 

[Agile]

I noticed it because a few months ago I was reading a very sad report of someone living in sheltered accommodation who wanted a simple 2m colinear so that he could talk to his friends as he could not drive or walk any more.

He did the right thing and asked the Manager of the accommodation who point blank refused without giving any reason. He then wrote to each of the Trustees who also refused. He was offered advice on some kind of internet connection to a repeater but it sounded very complicated and may have just been a remotely operated transmitter. I did see a demonstration of that technique but is only available using a rig costing over £600 and still needing a host to locate it. It is quite sophisticated and the remote computer screen has an image of the rig and the mouse can operate all the controls and view all the displays.

 

[RandomGrinch]

I noticed it because a few months ago I was reading a very sad report of someone living in sheltered accommodation who wanted a simple 2m colinear so that he could talk to his friends as he could not drive or walk any more.

Yes, a sad story - there should be opportunities for all to pursue their passions and remain connected to friends.
However, in this case, I feel allowing access to that particular roof would be negligent on the part of the accomodation management. With the antenna so close to an unguarded roof edge & skylight plus the proximity to the flues.
My Risk Assessment would include a locked restrictor on that window.

 

[surfnutt]

Hi guys thanks for the reply and interest, as regards the coaxial and antennas, i am a licenced radio amateur, the coax is RG 213 mainly
the antennas are a end fed random wire with a 9 to 1 balun, the other is a home built 70cm yagi on a home built rotator, as for permissions i have permission from the scheme and also permission for access on to the flat roof, i am lucky to have a very understanding management team here, as for the radios i use a yaesu 991a as well as a yaesu 857d and operate on HF VHF and UHF bands.