Replacing my back boiler/central heating system
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Yeah no problem, you seem to be up later than me and awake long before! 
Nothing wrong with the bedrooms,I would also consider removing radiator in bathroom, but keep the towel rail with ordinary radiator valves,trv not needed.
Diner/Kitchen I would keep the small radiator, or consider even a plinth heater instead.
Living room, I would have preferred two radiators in this room, one in original location & another in recess under window, for more balanced heating of the room, sometimes two can be better than one.
No idea of furniture locations for the room, you might feel the heat excessive nearest to radiator.
Front porch I presume it's doubled glazed, I reckon you could drop down on the btu's to 1500, & increase the bottom hallway radiator output.
Diner/Kitchen I would keep the small radiator, or consider even a plinth heater instead.
Living room, I would have preferred two radiators in this room, one in original location & another in recess under window, for more balanced heating of the room, sometimes two can be better than one.
No idea of furniture locations for the room, you might feel the heat excessive nearest to radiator.
Front porch I presume it's doubled glazed, I reckon you could drop down on the btu's to 1500, & increase the bottom hallway radiator output.
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I agree with a second rad in the lounge, would mean chasing out the concrete floor though for the pipework.
Are you calling the porch the room with 1800BTU rad in? I'll see if I can link to to original floor plan as that was the downstairs toilet
Just use a towel rail for heating the bathroom in its own? Why would you not fit trv's?
Are you calling the porch the room with 1800BTU rad in? I'll see if I can link to to original floor plan as that was the downstairs toilet
Just use a towel rail for heating the bathroom in its own? Why would you not fit trv's?
I thought the room with the 1800 btu was front door entrance.
Don't know which way your joists run, I presume your running ground floor heating under the first floor & dropping down to the radiators where necessary?
If so,could you not tee off & run 15mm pipework to second radiator in living room, easier than chasing floor.
Also you could then balance & split the btu's between the two radiators, giving narrower in height or width option.
Very seldom do they fit trv to a towel rail, it's always ordinary valves, on/off as needed.
Wouldn't use a towel to heat the bathroom, as it would be continually heated & not thermostatically controlled, if you want controlled heating them keep the small radiator with trv, or if space is tight, then your second choice of electric underfloor heating.
Don't know which way your joists run, I presume your running ground floor heating under the first floor & dropping down to the radiators where necessary?
If so,could you not tee off & run 15mm pipework to second radiator in living room, easier than chasing floor.
Also you could then balance & split the btu's between the two radiators, giving narrower in height or width option.
Very seldom do they fit trv to a towel rail, it's always ordinary valves, on/off as needed.
Wouldn't use a towel to heat the bathroom, as it would be continually heated & not thermostatically controlled, if you want controlled heating them keep the small radiator with trv, or if space is tight, then your second choice of electric underfloor heating.
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No the conservatory is just a large porch to the front door
The room with the 1800BTU was split in half horizontally with the back half only accessible from the outside door!
I sort of assumed that the ground floor heating would be run through the concrete floor. If it's all in the ground floor ceiling/1st floor floor, how would the rads be connected? (I know that sounds daft!!?)
Joists run vertically.
The room with the 1800BTU was split in half horizontally with the back half only accessible from the outside door!
I sort of assumed that the ground floor heating would be run through the concrete floor. If it's all in the ground floor ceiling/1st floor floor, how would the rads be connected? (I know that sounds daft!!?)
Joists run vertically.
As you had pulled down the ceilings, I thought you were going to lift a few floorboards, & lay pipe work for the ground floor between the joist & notch joists where required ,& having 15mm pipe dropping down to required radiator locations in the rooms, which is the usual way.
Laying piping in a existing concrete floor is a lot of hard work cutting channels, if the floor was being relaid, then it would easy to lay 4x2 to form channels in the concrete, the timber is then removed after concrete has set.
Laying piping in a existing concrete floor is a lot of hard work cutting channels, if the floor was being relaid, then it would easy to lay 4x2 to form channels in the concrete, the timber is then removed after concrete has set.
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Yeah That certainly makes sense. So then the rad pipes would be coming out of the wall? I'll have to have a google and see how thats done.
No, pipes are surface clipped.
You try to put drops in, where there are unnoticeable, corners of rooms, take your living room, the drop would in the corner,hidden when the door is opened, pipes would then run along to radiator, roughly level or just above the skirting.
It's all about aesthetics, making the drops less noticeable, sometimes it takes a bit of thought & planning, maybe move a pipe drop to the other side of a wall to hide it, it then could serve two radiators, by just drilling through a wall.
With houses especially old ones, you have to work with then, not against them, when installing central heating.
You try to put drops in, where there are unnoticeable, corners of rooms, take your living room, the drop would in the corner,hidden when the door is opened, pipes would then run along to radiator, roughly level or just above the skirting.
It's all about aesthetics, making the drops less noticeable, sometimes it takes a bit of thought & planning, maybe move a pipe drop to the other side of a wall to hide it, it then could serve two radiators, by just drilling through a wall.
With houses especially old ones, you have to work with then, not against them, when installing central heating.
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Can I not chase the walls out and bury them? I don't think the mrs will like them exposed...
Edit: I'm boarding out all of the walls and skimming
Edit: I'm boarding out all of the walls and skimming
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Nothing to stop you, but looking at you sketch, you only got two pipe drops, three with the extra radiator.
Move the 22mm pipe work closer to the bottom hallway wall, you could drop 15mm pipes down in corner in bottom hallway & feed both radiators, living room, in corner, it hidden by door when open, or you could box it in.
A lot easier than chasing a wall, especially in a old old house, as you may come unstuck with old brickwork, stone work.
And the living room, you say joists are vertical, so it's easy to run length of room & drop in corner for the extra radiator under window.
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