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Replacing central heating pipework and radiators

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  • Jeepers_Creepers
    Jeepers_Creepers Posts: 4,339 Forumite
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    edited 21 July 2021 at 9:45AM
    I think the main issue here is bringing the pipes down from the ceiling above, and not so much getting them across a floor.
    I have to say, I'd be inclined to reduce to 10mm and channel them into the wall completely out of sight, but a small corner boxing of 2 15mm pipes can often be done sympathetically. But then you need to get from the boxing to the actual rad...
    10mm pipe can be taken - either buried, or else behind tall skirting - to the valves, and then upped again to 15mm copper tails (or sleeve the visible 10mm tails in 15mm decorative covers).
    Just depends on how much work you want to do.
  • paperclap
    paperclap Posts: 779 Forumite
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    All the vertical pipework will be boxed in.

    I mean, I could go to the trouble of burying all the pipework in the wall and/or flooring. But, A, that is a fair amount of work... and B, should there ever be a leak, I've a much better view at where that leak is coming from.
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