Can a council tenant have any say in where a new boiler is situated?

[anntho]

The council are offering to update the fire and inefficient old radiators and replace the old fashioned boiler with a new combi one. They want to move the boiler from the tank cupboard in the bedroom to the much bigger walk-in wardrobe, presumably for convenience as there seems to be a gas pipe there. It's a small first floor one bedroomed flat. I'd much rather have it in the kitchen or bathroom, and know I'd have to pay the difference, tho prices seem to differ wildly re Google. Is this ever allowed? I realise they prefer everything standardised but wonder if there's ever any flexibility? Could they just update the radiators or do they come as a package?
The space to the outer wall in the kitchen from the light switch is 48cm wide,102cm long to tiles, bathroom 58-152, wardrobe 55 width, no idea how big the boiler would be so may not be possible anyway. Thanks.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

You can ask but as you don’t own the property and you rent you don’t have much say

 

[gmartine]

I very much doubt they'd get into a negotiation with you but you can only ask. If you can present a logical plan with reasoning you never know but don't forget you might be losing space in one area but you're gaining in another.

 

[anntho]

Thanks both.
Btw, is installing a boiler in a room where there isn't a gas pipe right where it will be installed make it much more complex, time consuming and expensive or not much? There is an old shut off pipe in the kitchen which I guess is gas which used to be connected to a radiator, would that just be extended? I just did a q&a estimate on moving a boiler on the eon website and they said it would be £3700 which seems a bit steep! 😱😂

 

[Deleted member 120897]

If a pipe was connected to a radiator it won’t have contained gas. Have you asked them why they want to move the boiler? Maybe the pipe needs an upgrade, and it’s easier the way they have suggested. Flats aren’t the biggest or easiest of properties to work in.

 

[anntho]

Thanks. No, just that everyone's is going in the same place as they're modernising all the heating in flats. Do you know what the rough size of a combi boiler for a one bed flat would be, cm wide and high? The cupboard it's in now is half the size of where it's going, but combis are smaller than trad boilers right?

 

[Deleted member 120897]

Not always smaller no, but they’re not beasts either. It depends on the Combi as each one is different in dimension, if you know the make and model, this could be found out.