Old Boiler Removal

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The property we are in the process of buying needs a fair bit of work, one of those items is removal of an old Baxi boiler, that is vented into a dedicate chimney. There is a full chimney stack visible in the loft and roof, with some visible in a corner of a room on the first floor, but as seen on this image, there is no full breast/exposure in the kitchen. Just wondering if anyone is familiar with the way the chimney might be supported/work for this?

We would ideally like to remove the bottom section from the kitchen, ready for a new kitchen and boiler install, but looking for some direction. From reading it also sounds like with this sort of setup, there is often use of cement containing asbestos as part of the boiler flue to chimney connection?



Thanks in advance
 
That looks to me like its just an internal flue and going through a cupboard and boxing in for "looks" and its joining the chimney higher up. (maybe in the floor void above the kitchen)

I would suspect a heating engineer would just remove everything upto ceiling level and cap it off. So you can rip the cupboards etc out as you want.
Assume your having a wall mounted boiler so would vent that new boiler externally anyway?
 
Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
That looks to me like its just an internal flue and going through a cupboard and boxing in for "looks" and its joining the chimney higher up. (maybe in the floor void above the kitchen)

I would suspect a heating engineer would just remove everything upto ceiling level and cap it off. So you can rip the cupboards etc out as you want.
Assume your having a wall mounted boiler so would vent that new boiler externally anyway?
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Yeah you could well be right, I wonder if the stack stops in the loft as its only quite a small section in the first floor corner. Will try and get local heating person to have a look, when we are closer to completion then. Sounds like it might not be too much work. New boiler would be moved into.a utility room and vented externally. Well that's the plan
 
The Flue will be up the chimney, have a look out side your property at the chimney there should be a wind defection cap on the stack either metal or terracotta (several to chose from). Its an open flued boiler and will have to be flued up a chimney.
 
So the surveyor seems to think it is part of the brick stack in the kitchen and mentioned it may be possibe to corble it above the kitchen. Has anyone been through a similar process?
 
No - but am buying a house identical, so do let me know how you get on!
 
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