Hi All, after some advice.
My boiler has been playing up recently so had an engineer round to look at it today. He took one look at the position of the boiler and it's Flue and said it is unsafe and capped off our gas supply to avoid it being used.
This was due to our flue expelling into the eaves of an extension that our neighbours are currently building/ finishing. The flue is less than a foot away from the wall of their extension and due to the new structure being taller than our extension the fumes go directly up into the roof.
The engineer also said that the extension was probably what was causing the issues with the boiler in the first place.
At the time of planning etc the flue issue never came up and presumably the extension has building regs sign off.
I am meant to be moving house within the month and cannot leave our house with no gas supply or boiler.
Our boiler is fairly old and so I suspect (as far as i can find on google) any flue extension kits will be obsolete and it may not survive being moved so I might need a completely new boiler.
Do I have any recourse with my neighbours? I understand that they can build on their land but are they allowed to make a boiler flue unsafe as part of that process?
Any advice, knowledge or suggestions welcome, thanks.
My boiler has been playing up recently so had an engineer round to look at it today. He took one look at the position of the boiler and it's Flue and said it is unsafe and capped off our gas supply to avoid it being used.
This was due to our flue expelling into the eaves of an extension that our neighbours are currently building/ finishing. The flue is less than a foot away from the wall of their extension and due to the new structure being taller than our extension the fumes go directly up into the roof.
The engineer also said that the extension was probably what was causing the issues with the boiler in the first place.
At the time of planning etc the flue issue never came up and presumably the extension has building regs sign off.
I am meant to be moving house within the month and cannot leave our house with no gas supply or boiler.
Our boiler is fairly old and so I suspect (as far as i can find on google) any flue extension kits will be obsolete and it may not survive being moved so I might need a completely new boiler.
Do I have any recourse with my neighbours? I understand that they can build on their land but are they allowed to make a boiler flue unsafe as part of that process?
Any advice, knowledge or suggestions welcome, thanks.