Moving a radiator

[garrymum]

I am wanting to move a small radiator to an opposite wall. my system details are as follows:

Fully pumped heating system. Water cylinder in airing cupboard with a F&E tank in the loft. All pipework is 10mm microbore. Feed and return pipes come through the wall to the rad.

My thoughts were:-

Drain the system.

Cut a section of the plasterboard wall away to get access to the pipes in the stud wall. Cut the pipes in the wall space and extend with plastic tubing (pushfit or similar).

Remove part of the chipboard floor and part of the apposing wall and clip the plastic pipe to the joist (which run in the same direction as pipework needs to run). Clip the pipework to one of the vertical timbers in the opposite wall.

Before the new feed / return pipes come back through the wall I would like to replace the plastic with chrome pipework as I am replacing the rad with a towel radiator. Is it ok to join plastic to chrome?

Thanks for any pointers?

 

[Softus]

Is it ok to join plastic to chrome?

Yes, but you should use a brass compression fitting to do it, not a push-fit fitting.

Thanks for any pointers?

 

[namsag]

Lift the floor first and see if the pipes you are going to use already pass by where you intend to take them or if the heating flow and return pass by there

 

[garrymum]

Lift the floor first and see if the pipes you are going to use already pass by where you intend to take them or if the heating flow and return pass by there

Good idea. hopefully the pipes will pass that way on the way to the bedroom radiator. Thanks

 

[LUNAT]

HI


models ??????? it is the plumbing & heating not photo shoots. nice though.

 

[JohnD]

the pointer sisters

singers

 

[satansbrother]

models ??????? it is the plumbing & heating not photo shoots. nice though

Obviously before your time sonny.

If it helps you, imagine them as a 70s version of The Spice Girls, but with the ability to actually sing!

Not really my cup of Tetley though.

 

[Softus]

If it helps you, imagine them as a 70s version of The Spice Girls, but with the ability to actually sing!

That's the only difference to you?

 

[JohnD]

Softus acquired a liking for them in the 1970's, when he left school





...on retiring from his long career as headmaster

 

[GasMan1965]

Is it ok to join plastic to chrome?

Yes, but you should use a brass compression fitting to do it, not a push-fit fitting.

Thanks for any pointers?

 

[Softus]

...headmaster

Now write out, 100 times, "I must remember that I'm funny only inside my own head".

 

[JohnD]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

 

[LUNAT]

HI

nice