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Our boiler is getting on a bit and I'm considering having it replaced.
We don't have many options for locating it - basically it will have to
remain in the same position, which is wall-mounted in the kitchen. The
current boiler is between two wall-mounted cupboards (the type that are
taller than usual), and is itself behind a door that matches the
cupboards to either side. In other words, the boiler is hidden and the
effect is a line of three cupboards.

Now as I understand it there are a couple of problems with this.
First: strictly speaking there is currently insufficient clearance
between the front of the boiler and the door. Second: I believe it
used to be possible to buy shallower boilers that would solve the
clearance problem, but now new boiler installations have to be
condensing types (is this correct?) and these tend to be deeper.

I can think of a few options:

- don't try to hide the boiler. This will look a bit naff as there is
coving along the top and bottom of the cupboards, the bottom one hiding
a fluorescent light fitting that goes the full length.

- remount the cupboards so that they are not directly against the back
wall and are brought forward a few cm as needed. The run of cupboards
does not go along the whole length of wall so this will require some
kind of side panel to hide the gap at the visible side. Similarly the
coving is mitred to turn round this corner, into the wall, so I'll
probably have to replace the whole lot.

- get some deeper wall cupboards and replace the current cupboards, but
keeping the doors. This sounds like the best option: if I am going to
have to faff around anyway, we might as well get a bit of useful extra
storage out of it. I'll still have to do the coving as in the last
option. The main problem I see here is that I'm not sure it is even
possible to get deeper wall cupboards. All I have seen are in standard
300mm depth. I would also need the taller type that we have now.

Any thoughts on this? Other ideas, or a source for the deeper
cupboards? Or maybe it is possible to get a shallower boiler after all?


Thanks in advance,

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Ian


I have an Ideal Isar condensing combi which can be cupboard mounted