Oil Burner

Happy Monday

My oil burner is inside my house.
And it throws up fumes inside the house.
I have been there for 10 years and have maintained the burner regularly.
How can I move the burner outside to remove this fumes odour?
How much would that cost?
All answers greatly appreciated.

jimf

an indoor boiler if maintained properly should have no fumes

do you do the service yourself

Tom44

jimf wrote: »

an indoor boiler if maintained properly should have no fumes

do you do the service yourself

Boilers should never smell if turned up with proper equipment be it oil or gas.
And should NEVER smell indoors unless there's DANGEROUS fumes leaking.

Not out to knock you, just to point out the fact that fumes can kill.
Common sense realy.
Call somebody professional with the proper test equipment.

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Happy Monday

jimf wrote: »

an indoor boiler if maintained properly should have no fumes

do you do the service yourself

No - serviced professionally.
I have described the issue poorly.
No fumes coming from it when it is switched off.
It's more the odour of the heat when switched on due to the oil burner being inside the house.
Were I to move this outside would there be no smell when the heat is on?

Happy Monday

Tom44 wrote: »

Boilers should never smell if turned up with proper equipment be it oil or gas.
And should NEVER smell indoors unless there's DANGEROUS fumes leaking.

Not out to knock you, just to point out the fact that fumes can kill.
Common sense realy.
Call somebody professional with the proper test equipment.

images-1.jpeg

No - serviced professionally.
I have described the issue poorly.
No fumes coming from it when it is switched off.
It's more the odour of the heat when switched on due to the oil burner being inside the house.
Were I to move this outside would there be no smell when the heat is on?

Dtp1979

Happy Monday wrote: »

No - serviced professionally.
I have described the issue poorly.
No fumes coming from it when it is switched off.
It's more the odour of the heat when switched on due to the oil burner being inside the house.
Were I to move this outside would there be no smell when the heat is on?

Irreguardless if being inside or out, you should never smell an oil burner when working. Can you post pics of the last 2 flue gas analysis printouts that you received from your service engineer so we can see what is happening on the combustion side of things.

Happy Monday

Dtp1979 wrote: »

Irreguardless if being inside or out, you should never smell an oil burner when working. Can you post pics of the last 2 flue gas analysis printouts that you received from your service engineer so we can see what is happening on the combustion side of things.

I have posted photos of the boiler below. I do not have those other prints you speak of. I have described this problem incorrectly. There are no fumes and as a result no danger from the boiler. It's just that when it goes on there it throws up that petrol type odour around the house which gets on clothes and so on. Should I look to move the boiler outside and if so how much does that typically cost. All help on this matter is greatly appreciated at my end.

Wearb

Happy Monday wrote: »

I have posted photos of the boiler below. I do not have those other prints you speak of. I have described this problem incorrectly. There are no fumes and as a result no danger from the boiler. It's just that when it goes on there it throws up that petrol type odour around the house which gets on clothes and so on. Should I look to move the boiler outside and if so how much does that typically cost. All help on this matter is greatly appreciated at my end.

That is a room sealed boiler and there should be no smell from it. If there is, it should be easy to fix it. Certainly no need to have it moved.

Wearb

Just noticed the tiger loop deaereator. That could very well be the cause. Still an easy fix. Get a good tech to look at it.

Dtp1979

Happy Monday wrote: »

I have posted photos of the boiler below. I do not have those other prints you speak of. I have described this problem incorrectly. There are no fumes and as a result no danger from the boiler.

Carbon monoxide is odourless. Don't forget that

agusta

The tigerloop should be changed to an internal tiger loop and piped to outside or else the tiger loop you have should be moved outside.Also boiler serviced with a flue gas analyser and boiler tested for leakages with a flue gas analyser.