Chasing in rad drops

[GasmanxxxR1]

What are my options......

I have only ever surfaced mounted pipes on full installs.

I have a client in a 1930s bungalow who wants a new heating system with all rad drops chased into the wall.

So what do you guys do...... 10mm covered copper and just bend it out of the wall to the rad valve? Plastic pipe? micro bore or 15mm?

What i most need to know i suppose is how to bring the pipe out of the wall neatly with no joints in the wall

Cheers

 

[Rich8]

Chase down the corners of the wall in 10mm then go behind the skirting boards if they have them ?

 

[Paulplumb]

is it a wooden floor? if so come down with main F+R in a cupboard then either lift the boards and notch/hole to the rads or if there is a deep void under the joists crawl under there and clip pipes to the under side of the joist and pop straight up into the rads. If the floors are concrete probably best to get a decent wall chaser and vac and come down in 10 mm plastic ala new builds. The 10 mm plastic comes down inside the walls into a wall plate then the pipe is bent straight into the speedfit rad valves. (Lots of making good)

 

[Ermintrude]

Bosh in 15mm, wrap in denso..... Watch the oil leach through walls .... Or use 10mm concealed. Ty

 

[Crinkmeister]

Don't think those rads with holes in will catch on....:teeth_smile:

 

[stani]

10 mm plastic ala new builds. The 10 mm plastic comes down inside the walls


are you actually advocating plastering in plastic pipe into the wall chase?

 

[IDCHAPPY]

Don't think those rads with holes in will catch on....:teeth_smile:

Ta bum Tish....

10mm kuterlex plus neatly bent out into the valves

 

[Paulplumb]

10 mm plastic ala new builds. The 10 mm plastic comes down inside the walls


are you actually advocating plastering in plastic pipe into the wall chase?

If you put capping over them what's the problem?

 

[GasmanxxxR1]

are you actually advocating plastering in plastic pipe into the wall chase?

Thats what i was thinking, solid floors and solid walls in this bungalow

 

[Mike Jackson]

10 mm plastic ala new builds. The 10 mm plastic comes down inside the walls


are you actually advocating plastering in plastic pipe into the wall chase?

Did this years ago with an old place with exposed joists, no void to run the pipes in so chased the walls from the roof space down to the first and ground floor rads. Used metal capping and plastered over.

 

[kay-jay]

do it quite regular. dont always bother with capping either, drops in corners are unlikely to get a nail through em by some custard trying to hang a picture of aunt doris. different story if they are further out from the corner. i always wrap insulation tape round and round in a spiral to allow a bit of room for expansion. if you plaster straight over a bare pipe it creaks a lot when you fire up the heating

 

[jam1979]

How you doing gay jay I meant Kay jay ha

 

[happyflyer]

is it a wooden floor? if so come down with main F+R in a cupboard then either lift the boards and notch/hole to the rads or if there is a deep void under the joists crawl under there and clip pipes to the under side of the joist and pop straight up into the rads. If the floors are concrete probably best to get a decent wall chaser and vac and come down in 10 mm plastic ala new builds. The 10 mm plastic comes down inside the walls into a wall plate then the pipe is bent straight into the speedfit rad valves. (Lots of making good)

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Hell Paul where do you get rads like that??? plumbing by LEGO, PFP Push Fit Plumbers, they do push fit training in B&Q on Sunday now, you will also get a CPD certificate or a NVQ...

 

[sheff paul]

Bosh in 15mm, wrap in denso..... Watch the oil leach through walls .... Or use 10mm concealed. Ty

my parents moved in a bungalow last week,solid floors spent all day today chopping floor laying in copper rad pipes,will be wrapping denso ,old skool

 

[happyflyer]

my parents moved in a bungalow last week,solid floors spent all day today chopping floor laying in copper rad pipes,will be wrapping denso ,old skool

Paul,

Send some photos, that's not old school, I never did that...:cuss:

 

[acecharly]

Ive always done it in 10mm plastic running down the center of the rad, tails out below and of to either side and i also run silver tape over pipes so they can be detected after walls been made good.

 

[Whyme]

10mm copper chased in the corners and wrapped, make sure there deep enough though cos the plaster will crack otherwise.

 

[sheff paul]

Paul,

Send some photos, that's not old school, I never did that...:cuss:

I will get the daughter to try and down load it,last time I used denso was 1991,it took 20 years to get the stuff off me hands

 

[sheff paul]

10mm copper chased in the corners and wrapped, make sure there deep enough though cos the plaster will crack otherwise.

used to 1st fix in 10mm copper,in the mid 90,s before plastic came in ,bought a mini bender at the time saved the gaffer a fortune in elbows,the tight git never paid me back for the bender,your right it can crack the skim a bit