If I want to install, replace, or alter the position of any type of fuel burning appliance (including a gas boiler with a flue), will the building regulations apply?

Department: Environment Services
Division: Environment Services/Building Control

- All gas appliances: YES - but if you employ a CORGI (Council for Registered Gas Installers - 01256 372200 or www.corgi-gas.com) registered installer with the relevant competencies to carry out the work, you will not need to involve the building control department 

- Solid fuel appliances: YES - but if the building is no more than three storeys and you employ an installer registered with HETAS (Heating Equipment Testing and Approval Scheme) to carry out the work, you will not need to involve the building control Department.  

- Oil appliances: YES - but if the building is no more than three storeys and you employ an installer registered with OFTEC (Oil Firing Technical Association for the Petroleum Industry - 01737 373311 or www.oftec.org) to carry out the work, you will not need to involve the Building Control Department.

In general, but with certain limitations (e.g. relating to appliance output and the height of the building), the above registered installers may also carry out associated building work necessary to ensure that the appliance complies with the building regulations, without involving the building control department.  This may include work on a hearth, fireplace or flue. 

The fuel burning appliance installer should provide you with information about the safety performance limits of the installation and should also fix a notice plate in a place where it will be readily seen - e.g. adjacent to the mains water stop cock or adjacent to the electricity consumer unit. 

If you are having a boiler installed, your installer should leave you with a completed installation record; a commissioning certificate such as the one produced by the BENCHMARK scheme; and a user instruction manual.