I need help with a flue issue please!!

[Agile]

Like all legislation it then leaves plenty of room for lawyers to earn their crust as it give a definition of prejudicial to health, but not of nuisance

Whether water vapour is prejudicial to health is debatable and a plume of water vapour may be unsightly but is it a "nuisance"?

Bring on Rumpole

I thought you were Rumpole!

I think that its well established that boiler products of combustion are prejuducial to health as they contain carbon monoxide.

Although probably not tested in court, there must now be many cases where EHOs have taken the view that flue pluming close to windows is a statutory nuisance.

However, "guidance" (not compulsory) in the Government document "Guide to the Condensing Boiler Installation Assessment Procedure for Dwellings" extends the "J"'s 600mm to "a minimum 2·5m from a facing wall, fence, building, or the property boundary" for condensing boilers.

Again, this applies only to a flue pointing in that direction. British Standard BS5440-1 also "recommends" that condensing boiler flues should not be sited where the plume is "likely to cause a nuisance".

Tony

 

[megawatt]

Simple solution would be to point the flue rearwards and away from your property.

Despite all the technical guidance you have been given, the most important thing for you is the relations between you and your neighbour.

Knowing they've potentially done something wrong is a long way from getting them to rectify it and, if you don't play things carefully, you could ruin your relationship and start a dispute which could run and run and run.

My first question would be ... Does it bother you as it is?

If not, forget all about Regs and Statutory duties and obligations as they mean nothing in the real World ... It's people that matter! In this case I would leave well alone until you get to know them better and can suggest alternatives without fear of any conflict.

Only if it is a real nuisance would I attempt to tackle it now and then by offering solutions rather than problems.

It isn't likely to cost much to come up with something you'll both be happy with but you should expect to cough up in the interests of neighbourly harmony IMO.

Good luck

MW

 

[Agile]

In this case I would leave well alone until you get to know them better and can suggest alternatives without fear of any conflict.

Only if it is a real nuisance would I attempt to tackle it now and then by offering solutions rather than problems.

Good luck

MW

It it is ever to be dealt with then the time is immediately its been installed!

Waiting months or years can make it very difficult to persuade them to sort it out after they have been using it for a long time.

Tony

 

[GasMan1965]

In this case I would leave well alone until you get to know them better and can suggest alternatives without fear of any conflict.

Only if it is a real nuisance would I attempt to tackle it now and then by offering solutions rather than problems.

Good luck

MW

It it is ever to be dealt with then the time is immediately its been installed!

Waiting months or years can make it very difficult to persuade them to sort it out after they have been using it for a long time.

Tony

Agree !!!
I would speak to the owner on the quiet without the builder present and show him the proof that this could cause problems if left as is

 

[megawatt]

I stand by what I said ... It's easy for everyone here to advise you to sort it out now as none of them will have to deal with the fallout if things go badly

It will be far easier to deal with (on a personal level) once you've got to know the neighbours better.

Image how you'd feel if the first thing your new neighbours did was complained to you about work you'd had done to your house ... Not the best of starts methinks.

Take a view on whether it's really an issue worth pursuing before you do anything hasty ... Relationships between neighbours are easily bugg**ed and, once they are, seldom recovered!

MW

 

[Agile]

Whilst thats true, the neighbours are not boiler engineers and have no specialist knowledge of fluing !

Their builder has ( illegally ) fitted a boiler in an unsuitable position.

The neighbour can only get it sorted out easily while the builder is still on site and ( hopefully ) not fully paid yet.

Tony

 

[jonseyrs]

Terminal 60cm to opposite boundary and 2m to opposite opening, Corgi regs(they are the rules to follow). I have had to meet Corgi on a job for a complaint from a nuisance neighbour for being 1m to opposite boundary and 3m to opposite opening with condensing flue terminal and they passed it.

 

[heatingman]

If I'm reading the plan correctly the flue is discharging across your property.
The builder/installer is not registered, an RGi would not install a boiler in this manner due to the possible repercussions, any that do are total idiots and deserve the fallout.
In the event that you ever wish to place a shed/leantoo/conservatory in the space between the extensions I would raise your concerns with neighbour now. Strike while the irons hot.
There may well be other more serious installations faults with the boiler which your neighbour may be grateful to find out about sooner than later.

 

[billy bob]

Terminal 60cm to opposite boundary and 2m to opposite opening, Corgi regs(they are the rules to follow). I have had to meet Corgi on a job for a complaint from a nuisance neighbour for being 1m to opposite boundary and 3m to opposite opening with condensing flue terminal and they passed it.

There is no such thing as Corgi regs, they do not make the regulations.

 

[Agile]

Regardless of any dimensioned regulations there is a catch all requirement that a flue must not be installed in a position where it will cause any nuisance.

Tony

 

[megawatt]

There is no such thing as Corgi regs, they do not make the regulations.

They are able to whip their own poodles with them though

 

[megawatt]

Regardless of any dimensioned regulations there is a catch all requirement that a flue must not be installed in a position where it will cause any nuisance.

Which is why the OP should consider ... Is the position of the flue causing me a problem?

If the answer is no then stop being anal about regs and dimensions, forget all about it and move on.

MW