move radiator - concrete floor

lindasheb

hi

i want to move a radiator in my dining room from one wall to another (approx 7 feet). problem is all my floors in the ground floor are concrete. does anyone have any idea how this can be done and roughly how much i should have to pay. thank you

wallbash

Are the currant pipes coming from the ceiling, buried in the concrete or passing thru from another room??

27col

If you have a concrete floor then it almost certain that the pipes come down from the ceiling. I doubt whether any one would want to move the pipes without going into the floor of the room above. To dig up the concrete would be a very noisy and messy job.
If you only need to move the pipes by 7ft then I suppose chasing into the wall at skirting level might well be the least difficult option.

lindasheb

hI

Thanks for the replies. I havent been online for a while as computer was broken.

Back to my prob. I think the pipes come from upstairs, however I have just laid flooring all over the top floor so dont really want to go about lifting it. Unable to put the pipes round skirtings as I have french doors into the living room at one side and french doors to the back garden at the other.

If I had to sink the pipes into he conrete floor any idea how much it is likely to cost and if this is possible.

Any info would be great.

Thanks again

welda

lindasheb wrote: »

If I had to sink the pipes into he conrete floor any idea how much it is likely to cost and if this is possible.

Any info would be great.

Thanks again

I'm not 100% sure, but if you sink pipe into concrete and recover with same, lime or another ingredient of concrete/mortar mix corrodes copper pipe over a period of time, but you can lay plastic ducts to accommodate pipe and remove possibility of corrosion. I'm sure an expert on heating installation can advise better than me on the corrosion potential?

As for cost, sorry can't advise, not a difficult task if you hire a percussion type drill set on pneumatic, will be messy tho!

W.

adaze

Will be v messey, loads of dust that WILL get EVERYWHERE! But it is perfectly possible. As welda said copper pipes should be placed in conduit, or you can (I think) just use plastic pipes, check with Building Control, who could tell you for sure. Moving the pipes themselves will be the easy part, the hard part will be chasing out the floor, which I would think would double or treble the price.

illzlee

by the sound of it the biggest problem to you is lifting the floor you have just laid upstairs? the cost of chasing through the floor screed/slab and associated mess, making good and hassle will make re-doing the floor upstairs pale into insignificance!
by my reckoning;
moving radiator with pipework upstairs £400-700 dependant on how far the pipework goes, what you are willing to do yourself.
moving radiator through concrete floor £600+ (too many variables to be accurate)
You may also experience problems with the amount of additional pipework added to the system if you extend through the ground floor. The rad may never warm up properly, abd god forbid you ever get a leak in the floor!

27col

Why not just rerun the pipes at high level. Run them just below the ceiling, either cut into the plaster, or on the surface. If on the surface, them you can cover them with coving. If there is no room in the coving then chop them into the wall a bit and then put coving up. If I had this problem, that is the area that I would be exploring.
I have solid floors, and when building the house I chased out the walls and installed plastic cable trunking, into which the microbore pipe was put. I set the trunking so that it was just covered by the plaster skim. It seems to have worked all right for 30 years.

Razor

Does the wall you are intending to move the radiator to already have a radiator on the other side of it?

Ionkontrol

Angle grinder and a days work, messy though.