Hi
Not sure this is the best place to put this but I'm thinking you guys will probably have the best idea about how to go about this
Mid terrace (2 up 2 down) property with a Valliant combi shoved right at the back in the usual extension (kitchen and shower room).
Thanks to the CH pipes being run unprotected through the concrete floor of the extension they sprung leaks. The extension is concrete floor with quarry tile the rest has been knocked through into one big room with a rad on the front and back walls, flooring is really nice real wood t + g.
I've run new piping for the back rad behind the kitchen units, through the wall to the rad - no probs. Now I have to pipe up the rad at the far end of the room (front of house) - about 7.5m away. I really can't bring myself to cut the flooring up to do it.
Running round the skirting isn't really possible thanks to chimney breasts on opposing walls and doorways etc.
So my current idea - the rad in the front room upstairs is almost directly above the rad I need to pipe up, so I thought I might be able to take a drop off that. Taking some trim off around the bay window I found a handy hole - but how to go about it? The ceiling downstairs is lath and plaster, upstairs floor is cheapish laminate over floorboards (but not sure which way they run!).
Where the rad lives....
plan to run pipes up next to window then box in and paint to match window surround....
So I guess the question for those who have to annoying jobs like this all the time - what's going to be the least disruptive way to do this? Hack away some ceiling and run a drill up through the boards and laminate above? Rip up the laminate upstairs and hope the boards run the right way so I don't have to take up half the room? Then hope I can find some laminate to colour match and fit where it inevitable broke?
Ta
Graham
Not sure this is the best place to put this but I'm thinking you guys will probably have the best idea about how to go about this
Mid terrace (2 up 2 down) property with a Valliant combi shoved right at the back in the usual extension (kitchen and shower room).
Thanks to the CH pipes being run unprotected through the concrete floor of the extension they sprung leaks. The extension is concrete floor with quarry tile the rest has been knocked through into one big room with a rad on the front and back walls, flooring is really nice real wood t + g.
I've run new piping for the back rad behind the kitchen units, through the wall to the rad - no probs. Now I have to pipe up the rad at the far end of the room (front of house) - about 7.5m away. I really can't bring myself to cut the flooring up to do it.
Running round the skirting isn't really possible thanks to chimney breasts on opposing walls and doorways etc.
So my current idea - the rad in the front room upstairs is almost directly above the rad I need to pipe up, so I thought I might be able to take a drop off that. Taking some trim off around the bay window I found a handy hole - but how to go about it? The ceiling downstairs is lath and plaster, upstairs floor is cheapish laminate over floorboards (but not sure which way they run!).
Where the rad lives....
plan to run pipes up next to window then box in and paint to match window surround....
So I guess the question for those who have to annoying jobs like this all the time - what's going to be the least disruptive way to do this? Hack away some ceiling and run a drill up through the boards and laminate above? Rip up the laminate upstairs and hope the boards run the right way so I don't have to take up half the room? Then hope I can find some laminate to colour match and fit where it inevitable broke?
Ta
Graham