hi all. im in the middle of re doing all the rooms upstairs and i want to add/move some radiators. at the moment ive got 2 15mm pipes coming upstairs and 8mm microbore pipes run from them to the radiators. ive tryed to find some more 8mm fittings and pipes to carry on the same as whats there but its difficult to find them. someone suggested i just change it to plastic. so is there a manifold that i connect to the 2 15mm pipes so i can run 4 radiators from them? or would i be better off trying to find some 8mm pipe and fittings? the pipes for 2 of the radiators only need to be extended about 500-1000mm and the other 2 ill have to run completely new pipes( approx 30meters) thanx
what fittings do i need for my radiators?
- Thread starter aj1soad
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Are you adding two radiators to the system?
15 mm pipework to feed four rads is pushing it a bit, but should be fine as long as none of them are too big. You would be better to extend the flow and returns closer to the rads though rather then having a long run to them in 8 mm.
In fact you could use 10 mm pushfit to the rads themselves
In fact you could use 10 mm pushfit to the rads themselves
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ive made a quick drawing of the system thats there and the new location i need the rads.
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/1990/radiators.png
the red lines are the 2 15mm pipes and the 8mm microbore.
the purple lines are where i was thinking of putting the new pipes/or extending the current ones.
the brown squares are the current rads and the blue ones are the location of where i want to move them.
hope this helps to show what im trying to do.
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/1990/radiators.png
the red lines are the 2 15mm pipes and the 8mm microbore.
the purple lines are where i was thinking of putting the new pipes/or extending the current ones.
the brown squares are the current rads and the blue ones are the location of where i want to move them.
hope this helps to show what im trying to do.
Obviously it's not to scale but if you extend the two 15mm pipes as far as the next elbow in your picture, you could then feed the two middle rads in 10 mm similar to the way the one on the left is piped. Then carry on in 10 mm to the one on the right.
Yes you can get 15mm to 10 mm tees, if you take your picture to a good plumbers merchant they will sort you out with what you need.
now all i need to do is try and put it all togetherDIYnot Local
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