Thanks everyone for the advice.

The boiler is in the kitchen of a ground floor flat. There is no chance of
running the flue to the roof. There is no loft to move it too either. It
looks like I (and the neighbours) will have to put up with it.

It's a shame WB don't also provide a flue shroud (or something else) to help
lessen the effect of the plume. Lots of people have been staring at the
plume - and, judging by their expressions, I think the thing going through
their minds is "I'm not buying one of those boilers!". It is a PR disaster
but I guess over time people will get used to it.


Regards
Praful
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"Christian McArdle" wrote in message
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The flue cannot be moved. Is there a way a way of lessening the visual
(cosmetic) aspect of the pluming so that it doesn't look like a smoking
chimney?

Having previous had an Ideal Icos flued through the wall, I decided to put
by new Greenstar flue through the roof. A smoking chimney effect isn't so
disturbing up there!

I'm not suggesting that the emissions are lessened. I'm thinking,
for example, of putting something around the flue.

Don't do this. A poorly designed flue shroud could cause the boiler to
dangerously malfunction. The main way to reduce plume nuisance are to run
a
long flue, so most of the water is expelled already, or to run it to where
it isn't a nuisance, like shoving a vertical terminal out the top of a
unused chimney pot.

Christian.