Hello all, first post here...it IS about a boiler eventually I promise.
I'm a tenant in a 6-way houseshare in a large, 3-storey house with a basement room. On the ground floor level the landlord is having an extension built out of the back of the house by extending an already-existing room with a boiler in it. The room has essentially been built but is very much open without windows and doors so is well aerated.
The room has basically been shut off (the door normally closed) for the last few days so none of use had realised that the flue from the boiler is now in the middle of the (newly extended) room, spewing out carbon monoxide (the whole time we've continued to have heating). This strikes me as extreme negligence not to say stupidity on the part of the landlord/building company (a legal issue not for these boards I realise). We only found out today because someone happened to be coming from British Gas and couldn't believe his eyes; he's now "capped it" and we now have no heating in the middle of a cold November.
I know nothing about boilers. My question is: just how dangerous and negligent is this? What are the possible consequences physically? Is there any possibility we can have had carbon monoxide poisoning beyond this one room?
Apologies if this isn't the right forum for these sorts of questions. Thanks in advance for any helpful replies.
I'm a tenant in a 6-way houseshare in a large, 3-storey house with a basement room. On the ground floor level the landlord is having an extension built out of the back of the house by extending an already-existing room with a boiler in it. The room has essentially been built but is very much open without windows and doors so is well aerated.
The room has basically been shut off (the door normally closed) for the last few days so none of use had realised that the flue from the boiler is now in the middle of the (newly extended) room, spewing out carbon monoxide (the whole time we've continued to have heating). This strikes me as extreme negligence not to say stupidity on the part of the landlord/building company (a legal issue not for these boards I realise). We only found out today because someone happened to be coming from British Gas and couldn't believe his eyes; he's now "capped it" and we now have no heating in the middle of a cold November.
I know nothing about boilers. My question is: just how dangerous and negligent is this? What are the possible consequences physically? Is there any possibility we can have had carbon monoxide poisoning beyond this one room?
Apologies if this isn't the right forum for these sorts of questions. Thanks in advance for any helpful replies.
