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I recently added a radiator in our small front room, the boiler is on the other side of the wall in the veranda & the main flow & return pipes go up the wall & into the loft but nowhere convenient to run pipes down to the new radiator.
I decided to connect the pipes from the radiator thru the wall directly to the 22mm flow & return pipes, I connected them via a 22mm -15mm tees 2ft above the boiler as this appeared the easy option,lol
However I can't seem to get it to circulate thru the radiator properly, the 15mm return pipe from the rad gets hot rather than the flow & it seems that the return is pushing rather than pulling out & thus pulling in hot from the boiler flow pipe, the 15mm flow to the rad is lukewarm at most.
Where have I gone wrong ? the 15mm pipes to the rad are about 2mtrs long
I decided to connect the pipes from the radiator thru the wall directly to the 22mm flow & return pipes, I connected them via a 22mm -15mm tees 2ft above the boiler as this appeared the easy option,lol
However I can't seem to get it to circulate thru the radiator properly, the 15mm return pipe from the rad gets hot rather than the flow & it seems that the return is pushing rather than pulling out & thus pulling in hot from the boiler flow pipe, the 15mm flow to the rad is lukewarm at most.
Where have I gone wrong ? the 15mm pipes to the rad are about 2mtrs long