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What is this Box New Apartment

  • 25-09-2024 2:39pm
    #1
    Croche1887
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭


    hello

    I am just buying an apartment and in the bathroom, there is a large electrical unit above the toilet (PIC ATTACHED)

    can anyone identify this box and possibly recommend a more modern version of whatever it is ?

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Comments

  • #2
    Hooked
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,821 ✭✭✭Hooked


    Very hard to tell from the photo but my first GUESS would be gas boiler for the central heating…

    No idea really though. Whats the flap/door at the front. Take pics of this and whats visible under the box (above cistern)



  • #3
    meercat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,761 ✭✭✭meercat


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058370436/what-is-this-box-new-apartment

    looks like a gas boiler alright but totally against electrical regulations if it is.



  • #4
    Hooked
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,821 ✭✭✭Hooked


    Judging by those retro fitted heating pipes below the rad - might be a gas boiler after all…

    …and those are aluminium windows - I think - another sign of an older build. That tiling is very poor also.

    I hope you are getting an engineers report before parting with your money!



  • #5
    beachhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭beachhead


    Who would have thoughts of regs in 1972.Flap is for pilot light inspection and regulate temperature knob/valve.Probably placed there due to layout



  • #6
    meercat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,761 ✭✭✭meercat


    it was never permitted to install a gas boiler (or any other electrical appliances)so close to a bath/shower


    o.p

    if there is no power in this apartment you will require a certificate from a rec to facilitate reconnection

    No rec will provide one with this boiler location


    if there is power and you ever need a boiler service then rgi will issue a notice of non compliance

    If you ever need a boiler replacement it cannot go back here


    if you ever have a rec working in your apartment and he spots this then he must issue a notice of potential hazard



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