Will this cause me grief when I sell?
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We had our boiler serviced yesterday. Chap doing it pointed out that the neighbour's new boiler flue vents over our boundary which is apparently illegal - see pic. It's the back of their garage looking down my drive. The flue is just to the left of the guttering.
Personally I don't give a monkey's, but then I thought about pedantic surveyors.
Personally I don't give a monkey's, but then I thought about pedantic surveyors.
So long as the vent was well away from my actual house, didn't get in the way at all and wouldn't be something that my kids could burn themselves on then I don't think i'd be that worried when buying to be honest. Most houses have far more worrisome problems to be honest
Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 5th November 12:32
fatboy b said:
We had our boiler serviced yesterday. Chap doing it pointed out that the neighbour's new boiler flue vents over our boundary which is apparently illegal - see pic. It's the back of their garage looking down my drive. The flue is just to the left of the guttering.
Personally I don't give a monkey's, but then I thought about pedantic surveyors.
pretty sure that he's talking bPersonally I don't give a monkey's, but then I thought about pedantic surveyors.
ks, personally. Many properties have this 'feature'. Just walk any town centre, and you will see this happen. Many properties back on to others, and theres vent and chimneys projecting.Well they shouldn't have done it and it's 'illegal' in as far as it's an ongoing trespass and a private nuisance potentially in the fact that they are discharging fumes directly onto your property, but in that position, where there's no question of you wanting to build or sit etc. it just isn't an issue.
When he says it's illegal, what does he mean? What actual law is it breaking?
I'm not a heating expert so I don't know if there are specific rules around the vents. However I've just gone through a planning permission application which had a situation which may be relevant.
I applied to build on top of my garage. The garage borders the path which is the rear access to my property and my neighbours property. The planning application was refused because with the roof on, there would be an overhang of 30cm for the soffits and gutter which would encroach in to the "shared" path (allbeit 30 foot up in the air) and the application did not include the appropriate paperwork from next door saying they were fine with it.
So unless there are specific rules regarding heating extracts I would make a guess that the "illegal" thing is that part of his building is overhanging on your land and there is no permission from you for it.
I'm not a heating expert so I don't know if there are specific rules around the vents. However I've just gone through a planning permission application which had a situation which may be relevant.
I applied to build on top of my garage. The garage borders the path which is the rear access to my property and my neighbours property. The planning application was refused because with the roof on, there would be an overhang of 30cm for the soffits and gutter which would encroach in to the "shared" path (allbeit 30 foot up in the air) and the application did not include the appropriate paperwork from next door saying they were fine with it.
So unless there are specific rules regarding heating extracts I would make a guess that the "illegal" thing is that part of his building is overhanging on your land and there is no permission from you for it.
mattdaniels said:
When he says it's illegal, what does he mean? What actual law is it breaking?
We just had that problem with the Bit gas Homecare inspector on our BTL house. I received a panicked email from the tenants telling us the inspector had condemned the gas boiler because it did not meet current standards, the flue was too long, not insulated etc. Then he'd put a sticker on it and told them it was dangerous to use. I got on the phone to British Gas, from the Philippines, £1.50 a minute, telling them that those standards are not retroactive and that the boiler has had the same flue and ventilation for ten years and it is okay. That their serviceman had given us this same report every year, so why had it gotten into panic mode all of a sudden??
They then back-pedalled, apologised and explained to our tenants that they didn't really mean it was condemned, when they had told them it was condemned....
King Herald said:
We just had that problem with the Bit gas Homecare inspector on our BTL house. I received a panicked email from the tenants telling us the inspector had condemned the gas boiler because it did not meet current standards, the flue was too long, not insulated etc. Then he'd put a sticker on it and told them it was dangerous to use.
I got on the phone to British Gas, from the Philippines, £1.50 a minute, telling them that those standards are not retroactive and that the boiler has had the same flue and ventilation for ten years and it is okay. That their serviceman had given us this same report every year, so why had it gotten into panic mode all of a sudden??
They then back-pedalled, apologised and explained to our tenants that they didn't really mean it was condemned, when they had told them it was condemned....
Their self importance, and another reason on why you should move away from BG, and find a local boiler engineer.I got on the phone to British Gas, from the Philippines, £1.50 a minute, telling them that those standards are not retroactive and that the boiler has had the same flue and ventilation for ten years and it is okay. That their serviceman had given us this same report every year, so why had it gotten into panic mode all of a sudden??
They then back-pedalled, apologised and explained to our tenants that they didn't really mean it was condemned, when they had told them it was condemned....
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