Ventilation when you have a gas appliance

[Tommy]

I used to have a Baxi Bermuda VP with back boiler (natural gas) in the living room. Regulations dictated that I had vents in my front door which we had. I understand the regulations changed we actually should have had a vent in the living room as well.

We no longer have any gas appliances downstairs.

We have a Worcester Boch condensing boiler in a cupboard upstairs flued out through the wall to the outside.

Question: Can we now block off the vent in the front door to stop the wind blowing through?

I would welcome your advice.

 

[Toddyplumb]

Ask your installer, I would think you may like his reply but please DO ask him/her

 

[kirkgas]

I used to have a Baxi Bermuda VP with back boiler (natural gas) in the living room. Regulations dictated that I had vents in my front door which we had. I understand the regulations changed we actually should have had a vent in the living room as well.

We no longer have any gas appliances downstairs.

We have a Worcester Boch condensing boiler in a cupboard upstairs flued out through the wall to the outside.

Question: Can we now block off the vent in the front door to stop the wind blowing through?

I would welcome your advice.

i understand what you have written, but im not sure whether you have written it correctly or not, with the old baxi you needed to get fresh air to where the boiler was, so if the vent wasnt on an outside wall in the boiler room, you would have a vent on the front door AND a vent to allow this air to get to the boiler, however as the old boiler is out, (IS THE OLD FIRE AWAY AS WELL?) you now have a room sealed boiler so no need for the additional vet on the door, so as long as there are no other gas appliances i would say yes you can remove the door vent, if you have any other gas appliances i would prefer you to get a gas engineer in to confirm everything is ok

 

[Tommy]

Hi Kirkgas,

We had vents in the front door and all doors in between leading to the living room. The back boiler and the gas fire are now gone. We have an electric fire in the living room.

The only gas appliance is the central heating boiler Worcester Bosch Greenstar 15 Ri in the cupboard.

Toddyplumb - you intrigue me.

Thank you both for responding.

 

[mikegas]

then you can remove the vents

 

[GQuigley67]

although it is a room sealed boiler you'll need vents on the top and bottom of the cupboard door all other vents you can get rid of

 

[Bartdude]

although it is a room sealed boiler you'll need vents on the top and bottom of the cupboard door all other vents you can get rid of

Not necessarily.It depends on the size of the cupboard.

Greenstar 15Ri Compartment installation - Worcester, Bosch Group UK installer site

 

[Toddyplumb]

I intrigue you LOL .
I think you want rid of the vents . I think you may well be able to do that , but as Kirkgas has pointed out there may be other issues which you have answered, and then as we cant actually see the appliance GQ throws in you will need vents ( this is not nessessarily true)
Easiest thing is just ask the guy who fitted it He wont (shouldnt charge)

 

[GQuigley67]

all i ment is if there were vents on the cupboard door then keep them, and you can get rid of others, i DIDNT say install them.

 

[SafeGasInstall]

what about your range cooker ? have you not got one ?