Retro fit C/H

[Bobby_Dazzler]

Hi all

I am moving to a new house in jan which has warm air heating. I have decided to have a central heating system fitted with a combi boiler. (worcester) the question i have is.... Is it common to have pipes running up the wall from the rads? and if so can they be sunk in to the wall?

Regards

Bobby

 

[kevplumb]

concrete floors so the rads are drop fed

suppose you could sink them
personally i dont like the idea couldnt you cap them

 

[Bobby_Dazzler]

thanks for your rapid reply.... im not sure what you mean by cap them? i think the property does have concrete floors. The lounge has a gas fire at the moment built in to a flintstone style feature... it looks crap. anyway i plan to replace the existing fire with a wall mounted plasma style gas fire. The lounge and dining room are joined together with no seperating doors so i just dont know if i should have 1 rad in the lounge along with the gas fire and another rad in the dining room or scrap the rads and just have the gas fire. ? from a re sell point of view rads seem sensible.... i dunno !

 

[ChrisR]

One rad each end under the window would be normal style and work. I feel that decorative gas fires help a lot to sell a place, judging by the whinges I get from tenants where there's one fitted but not working.

Pipes dropping down are a necessary evil really. They can be a bit smaller, say 10mm, without problems, so can be in a shallow trunking in the corner. They can be buried but the plaster is likely to crack as it gets so hot.

 

[brumylad]

If a solid wall then might try

single 25mm wide 20mm+ deep channel vertical from ceiling and finishing behind middle of rad. Run two 10mm plastic pipes in channel each curving off behind the rad to a rad. valve.

Cover channel with galvanised metal lath. Finish with as thick a layer of plaster as you can (I would go for about 9mm +) applied in 2 coats. First coat thick, last coat thin skim.