question for the gasmen on here

[gucciman]

i guys

just been watching 60 minute makeover, i noticed that the house they were working on had a warm air unit in the bedroom, i thought open flued gas appliances couldn't be installed in a bedroom?

[buildersmate]

Correct. Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regs 1998. Clause 30 (1).
"No person shall install a gas appliance in a room used or intended to be used as a bathroom or a shower room unless it is a room-sealed appliance".
Are you sure it wasn't some sort of balanced-flue convector heater?

[gucciman]

possibly builders mate but i work on a lot of warm air units and it looked very much like one to me.

[gasman]

Actually Buildersmate is incorrect. This regulation only applies to appliances of more than 14 kilowatts gross heat input, However Regulation 30 (2) paragraph 185 states that an appliance of less than 14 Kw may be fitted provided they incorporate a device which turns off the gas supply before a dangerous level of fumes can build up. You must have come across and serviced say a gas fire ( open flued ) in a bedroom gucciman, before now and you will have checked out the oxy-pilot for correct opperation before allowing it to be used or ID it if it was faulty or did not have the safety device, well same goes for any appliance with the exception of an instantanious FLUELESS water heater that is.