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I'm slowly building a ground floor extension, and where the original house wall was (which is coming out) there was a large radiator, with pipes coming up through the concrete floor (1970s build, if that helps). This is now capped off temporarily, but I need to feed a new radiator in the extension. My original idea was to extend from these pipes in the new screed floor (in some sort of duct), but from what I've read that's not a great idea. There is the option to take a feed from the upstairs radiator feed into the new extension and down from that, but I believe that I'll need to provide provision to bleed air from that, but it will mean there's less chance of having a problem as there won't be a pipe buried in the floor.
If this is the way to go, what's the best way to approach it?
What's the best way to cap off the original pipes (which currently stick out of the floor, and have some movement in them, so I'm imagining that I can carefully chip away the old floor around them to get access to cut them off below the floor level to do whatever's needed)?
If this is the way to go, what's the best way to approach it?
What's the best way to cap off the original pipes (which currently stick out of the floor, and have some movement in them, so I'm imagining that I can carefully chip away the old floor around them to get access to cut them off below the floor level to do whatever's needed)?