Opinion on boiler location

johney

hello Folks,

doing a kitchen and sitting room renovation. The heating boiler cannot go outside for logistical reasons. I have an indoor boiler which I was going to put in the kitchen under the counter. The front will be visible, however this is white and clean and looks pretty much like a like a normal kitchen appliance. A friend has mentioned that it would be better to hide it. So I could move it to another room and build a unit around it. This is more work. I will live in the house for a while but may sell in the near future. So my question is, if you see a boiler in the kitchen is it off putting or a negative? And if the boiler is hidden in another room, ie sitting room, inside a cabinet, is this a better option?

Many thanks.

ted1

Put it in the attic or somewhere out if the way.

dinky earnshaw

johney wrote: »

hello Folks,

doing a kitchen and sitting room renovation. The heating boiler cannot go outside for logistical reasons. I have an indoor boiler which I was going to put in the kitchen under the counter. The front will be visible, however this is white and clean and looks pretty much like a like a normal kitchen appliance. A friend has mentioned that it would be better to hide it. So I could move it to another room and build a unit around it. This is more work. I will live in the house for a while but may sell in the near future. So my question is, if you see a boiler in the kitchen is it off putting or a negative? And if the boiler is hidden in another room, ie sitting room, inside a cabinet, is this a better option?

Many thanks.

Where was the original boiler?

awec

johney wrote: »

hello Folks,

doing a kitchen and sitting room renovation. The heating boiler cannot go outside for logistical reasons. I have an indoor boiler which I was going to put in the kitchen under the counter. The front will be visible, however this is white and clean and looks pretty much like a like a normal kitchen appliance. A friend has mentioned that it would be better to hide it. So I could move it to another room and build a unit around it. This is more work. I will live in the house for a while but may sell in the near future. So my question is, if you see a boiler in the kitchen is it off putting or a negative? And if the boiler is hidden in another room, ie sitting room, inside a cabinet, is this a better option?

Many thanks.

Definitely not. Nobody wants a boiler in the sitting room. I would also think if it were visible it would be a negative too.

Is this a gas boiler or what?

johney

it's an oil boiler so it will not be going in the attic.
It's either kitchen and visible, or sitting room and hidden. Those are the 2 options. Many thanks for your opinion.

Wesser

Why dont you cover it in the kitchen with a boiler press?

johney

the problem is it would be under the countertop. Has to be on outside wall under kitchen window.The cabinates are Max 60 cm. deep. The boiler is 62 cm. Plus a door is around 64 cm. Efectively, if it had a door, it would be jutting out from the rest, even beyond the countertop which is 62cm. It would look terrible.
thanks for your reply.

Cerveza

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touts

johney wrote: »

the problem is it would be under the countertop. Has to be on outside wall under kitchen window.The cabinates are Max 60 cm. deep. The boiler is 62 cm. Plus a door is around 64 cm. Efectively, if it had a door, it would be jutting out from the rest, even beyond the countertop which is 62cm. It would look terrible.
thanks for your reply.

Worse than an exposed front of a boiler?

I'd snap the hand off the kitchen designer if they could hide it and just have it sticking out 4cm.

Alternatively can you get 2cm added to the back of the countertop?

johney

thanks touts, thought of that too. I'd really want to add 3 cm to the back of the countertop the whole length of the kitchen to make it work. I would then also have to leave about 2 cm gap between wall and base cabinets so the whole kitchen is out a bit more. This might work.

Effects

Can you extend the line of kitchen presses? That's what I did, to cover an existing oil boiler when redoing a kitchen.

edit: opened thread, and by the time I replied, you had similar suggestion.

Cerveza

#wearb cash job

johney

thanks effects, even if I could extend I still have the difference in depth problem to contend with. The boiler is just deeper than the line of cabinets. How did you manage to get around this may I ask?

Graham

Remove worktop & kicker, pull out all the cabinets, batten behind as a spacer, put the cabinets back, new worktop (deeper), re-tile.

Check for gables at either end of the cabinet run, usually found on the exposed sides if the cabinets don't run wall-to-wall (or on the exposed sides of tall cabinets). Your existing gables won't be deep enough if you pull cabinets out so you'll more than likely need replacements.

Effects

johney wrote: »

thanks effects, even if I could extend I still have the difference in depth problem to contend with. The boiler is just deeper than the line of cabinets. How did you manage to get around this may I ask?

I was installing new cabinets, so I moved them all out a bit from the wall. So the boiler was able to fit in one of the units, and the door closed over it. Then I had a work top that was deep enough on top. It was ikea units I used, but before they switched to the units that hang from a rail.
Previously the boiler front was flush with old cabinets.

If I'd had the money at the time I would have changed boiler for an external one.