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Hello I would like to add a radiator to my current heating system and would like to take some advice on how to achieve this?
Thanks
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what heating system do you have
combi
cylinder
pressurized
open vent eg tank in the loft approx 1x1 foot
10mm to the rads or 15mm etc
Yes and Aka Open vent system15mm pipe work to rads, header tank in loft and cylinder is this classed as a regular boiler system?
Thank youYes and Aka Open vent system
Towel radiator In bathroom, 4 single panels, 2 double panels. The boiler is a valiant.Can you count how many rads you currently have, and how many panels they have? Also can’t remember from previous posts what boiler you have?
Towel radiator In bathroom, 4 single panels, 2 double panels. The boiler is a valiant.
It's a house. I'm pretty handy with tools, but need some guidance on where to start. ThankdSounds feasible. Bungalow or house?
Down stairs.To be accurate and clear on the guidance, are you adding upstairs or down?
Do it soon winter is on the wayYou will have to drain the system down after turning the f&e tank off turn off all the rads at both ends. Then hang your radiator after working out the best pipe routes for the flow and return. The rule is two medium sized rads per 15mm pipe run 3 at a pinch. Start at the rad or the t junction end and bang it all in. you can use copper ...best or plastic bit ugly if its on view. turn water back on , check your work then open new rad check again. open all the closed rads. go round and bleed bottom ones first. check again, switch heating on sweat in this heat. switch off sit down award yourself a few beers
already in the fridge. Simple who would get a plumber for this !
Rob Foster aka centralheatking
just use lockshields and it does not matter, if wasting dosh on trv then the pipe that heats up first is the flowPerfect thanks, copper it is. The flow and returns are running around the top of the cieling so I will run the pipe work down from the top to the rad valves. Which end of the rad valves corrospond with which flow of pipe?
When I put the heating on the first pipe to heat up out the the two 22mm is the flow out and the other is the return?
Does said pipes get hot when the hot water is on ?
If it heats up when you call for hot water only then it us on the hot water circuit. If you select central heating only if they become hot then it is only heating pipes.
If it heats up when you call for hot water only then it us on the hot water circuit. If you select central heating only if they become hot then it is only heating pipes.
In short if they heat up when either heating or hot water is on or both these are the pipes direct from your boiler
If you install the rad on these you will have it heating up anytime the boiler is on
Best to find the heating circuits even if it’s 15mm[/QUOT
In short if they heat up when either heating or hot water is on or both these are the pipes direct from your boiler
If you install the rad on these you will have it heating up anytime the boiler is on
Best to find the heating circuits even if it’s 15mm
Thanks. Where would you normally find the heating circuit?
Your questions have gone beyond guidance. Best of luck with it.Not at all, this is why I joined this forum
Some guidance and I will have it sorted.
My first hour's £45.00, but not a bad idea otherwise. The OP seems to be researching how a heating system is plumbed and may be able to work out if it's S plan or Y plan (or C, W, etc plan), but some people are able to look at a mess of pipework and make sense of it and others really struggle. But obviously it's easier to identify if you do this every day.Ian it may be wise to phone a local plumber and explain what you want to do, pay him £30 to come and look at your system and point you in the right direction.
I have done this for people in the past, I like it when people try to help themselves rather than just get someone in for every little job.
Then you have someone who’s seen it on your side if you get stuck ( no reason you will), and if the worst comes to the worst they can sort it for you.
Good luck
Both pipes are cold when hot water is called for, so are these part of the central heating circuit?Does said pipes get hot when the hot water is on ?
Are you Plumbing only?My first hour's £45.00, but not a bad idea otherwise. The OP seems to be researching how a heating system is plumbed and may be able to work out if it's S plan or Y plan (or C, W, etc plan), but some people are able to look at a mess of pipework and make sense of it and others really struggle. But obviously it's easier to identify if you do this every day.
Are you sure they are heating pipes and not water. Where are your port valve/s? Near tank or pump? Brass body with a wee box on top. This will give you a better idea.
Are you sure they are heating pipes and not water. Where are your port valve/s? Near tank or pump? Brass body with a wee box on top. This will give you a better idea.
That’s good least you know now
If your confident yes just need to make sure you connect them up right if your fitting trvs eg flow to trv etc
Thought you was going to bed? Go away and dream Of sheep you welsh personPic of boiler please and said pipes
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