Hi all, I installed a new radiator over the weekend but to my disappointment it isn't getting very hot!
It's a type 22 radiator 600x1600mm and fed with 10mm plastic pipes which drop down through a stud wall. The pipes feeding the branch are 15mm, which themselves are branched off 22mm pipes running through the middle of the house upstairs.
OK, first thought might be that the 15mm branch should be 22mm, but there's another radiator attached to the 15mm branch which is red hot. Here's a photo - you can see the 10mm pipes going downstairs, and the 15mm copper leads to the other radiator(the one that gets hot) which is the other side of the wall.
The radiator downstairs is fully bled, available and I'm as sure as I can be that there are no kinks in the pipes feeding it. It does get reasonably hot but only at the top whilst the bottom is luke warm.
My conclusions are that the 15mm branch isn't the problem, as otherwise the other radiator wouldn't be getting so hot, so perhaps the issue is the 10mm pipes?
Any thoughts and/or suggestions?
Many thanks.
It's a type 22 radiator 600x1600mm and fed with 10mm plastic pipes which drop down through a stud wall. The pipes feeding the branch are 15mm, which themselves are branched off 22mm pipes running through the middle of the house upstairs.
OK, first thought might be that the 15mm branch should be 22mm, but there's another radiator attached to the 15mm branch which is red hot. Here's a photo - you can see the 10mm pipes going downstairs, and the 15mm copper leads to the other radiator(the one that gets hot) which is the other side of the wall.
The radiator downstairs is fully bled, available and I'm as sure as I can be that there are no kinks in the pipes feeding it. It does get reasonably hot but only at the top whilst the bottom is luke warm.
My conclusions are that the 15mm branch isn't the problem, as otherwise the other radiator wouldn't be getting so hot, so perhaps the issue is the 10mm pipes?
Any thoughts and/or suggestions?
Many thanks.