hanging new boiler on plasterboard

[Gascat]

Hello chaps anyone know is plasterboard considered a non combustible material? fitted a fair few boilers but never had to put one on a stud wall before. I am presuming studs/sheet of ply/plasterboard is an acceptable wall to fix on? does it need to be the pink /fireboard? not flueing through the stud its going sideways .
New here by the way HELLO everyone.

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

sheet of ply and ellis board plaster board is considered combustible

 

[migoplumber]

pink board is ok

 

[Gascat]

cheers for that pink board it is then

chris GS502544

 

[stevetheplumber]

are we saying a plasterboard wall is combustable ?or are we talking unplastered board?

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

are we saying a plasterboard wall is combustable ?or are we talking unplastered board?

unplastered i think hes on about

 

[diesel_ltd]

plaster board is classed as a fire check

 

[tamz]

Std plasterboard (gyproc) is 30 minutes fire rated. The pink stuff is 1hr i think.
You can hang a boiler on std plasterboard. (unplastered)

 

[GrahamM]

Not too clued up on this but i believe plasterboard in general has a certain degree of fire-resistance due to its material make up, but only if it can be confirmed which manufacturer made it, can you be sure how fire resistant it may be. British Gypsum who make our well known Gyproc has a fire resistance of 30mins on its standard board.
So technically any board made with Gypsum is fire resistant.

 

[aceplumber]

if its a condensing boiler mans. will tell you it can fitted on anything as boiler does not get as hot as the earlier generation boilers

 

[Scottley]

Plasterboard is used as a firebreak as already stated. You can use pink and double the fire rating. I have used it double skin on celings as a firebreak before so a single sheet over anything combustible should be fine

 

[Gascat]

if its a condensing boiler mans. will tell you it can fitted on anything as boiler does not get as hot as the earlier generation boilers

WB 28i junior MFI's says must be fitted on non combustible surface

 

[crashndie]

but cant wall paper be classed as combustible ?

 

[tamz]

If plasterboard were to be classed as combustible there must be 1 million or more boilers at risk.
Think about it. Just about every house built since the 90's (before that in Scotland with kits becoming popular since the late 70's) has plasterboard (drylined) walls.

 

[GasmanxxxR1]

Fitting condensing boilers on plasterboard is ok, doe it hundreds of times.

Some MIs state that it can be hung anywhere, i think glowworm is agood example of this.
Saying that i have hung WB on plasterboard also, although it does state tin WB Mis not to hang on combustible material.

I work for a large national company who has influence over WB, we have queried a few things in their MIs which are radically different from other manufactures.

They normally got back to us saying that 'yeah we'll change that in our next MI re-print, just old instructions'

Goes to show that not everything in black and white is true!!

 

[plumbster3456]

if its a condensing boiler mans. will tell you it can fitted on anything as boiler does not get as hot as the earlier generation boilers

does not matter if it is condensing or not it should be fitted to a non combustible surface (i use the pink board) 1 hour fire rating
had the guy from gas safe out last year and he was happy with the pink board that the boiler was mounted on