It will not got as hot as a single wall flue and is therefore safe for.
Boiler flue through conservatory roof.
So if you re considering getting your boiler flue fitted through your roof i ve outlined five of the main considerations to bear in mind.
Firstly you ll want to know your chosen engineer is fully competent and experienced at fitting flues through roofs.
The good news is that it is safe to pass a flue pipe through a conservatory roof as long as you follow these steps use a twin wall flue.
As to how it can be directed oot the roof the installation instructions for the make and model of boiler will show all the flue pipe permutations and almost certainly this will include examples to show an upwards diverting elbow with a suitable flue terminal as if the flue were coming through a normal roof.
Gas safe eng tells me the parts are available and can be done fairly straightforward by working in sync with the conservatory installer.
Supposing you d built the conservatory first and then wanted to install the boiler if you wouldn t have been allowed to put the boiler or its flue as close to the conservatory as you re proposing to put the conservatory to the boiler flue then you or your conservatory builder would be in contravention of section 8.
However the boiler flue manufacturer s instructions are final so if there s nothing specific in the vertical flue kit installation manual then call.
Sometimes called an insulated flue a twin wall flue is a flue pipe surrounded by a layer of insulation surrounded by another pipe.
The flue won t get hot since even the inside compartment is only designed to take warm and wet gas and is itself made of plastic so there should be no problem with going through the polycarb roof.
Our gas boiler flue on the kitchen wall needs to be extended on the outside to go up through a planned conservatory roof.
If the flue terminal is more than 2 3m away from the taller main house then the flue does not need to rise above the main roof.
As i read it.
When a non condensing boiler is replaced with a condensing boiler the different flue arrangements could mean that the current flue has to be relocated.