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My neighbour has had a cooker hood installed and the flue has been
sited at head height on the boundary wall between his house and mine.
The issue being that every time he cooks the fumes travel into my house
should I have my french doors or downstairs windows open.

Also he has had his gas boiler replaced - this was positioned with the
flue through the same boundary wall, I did not think this was allowed
and asked him to consult the installer - soon after the flue was
re-positiond, however, even though I think the flue now meets the regs
I get the smell of exhaust gases travelling into my house should I have
my french doors or downstairs windows open, there is also the constant
irritating whine of the fan.

Can anyone advise me if there are any regulations that cover the
positioning of extractor and gas boiler flues, the nuisence of smells
and the constant whine from the boiler fan.


There has been a very similar thread on this recently in uk.legal.moderated.
The boiler flue does not meet the regs: it is in violation of BS5440-
(2000) and Building Regulations approved doc J since it should be no closer
than 600mm from a boundary - certainly not _on_ the boundary and
discharging over onto your side. _You_ can't get CORGI to take action over
that, but the neighbour (or whoever paid the fitter to install the boiler)
can. You could advise them of this and ask them to get CORGI to sort out
with the fitter who installed it to get it repositioned.

On your side you have the Nuisance Act (or so I was advised by CORGI tech
help - not that they are lawyers) which can be invoked by your
Environmental Health people if the flue (and extractor fan) are causing you
a, er, nuisance.