Hi all,
Looking for a bit of help with moving some pipes.
We are having some work done and i need to move a few pipes around to tidy things up. I called a plumber in to look at the work and have been quoted an astronomical amount when compared to what the rest of the work is costing. I think its down to it being a bit messy and crawling around in roof space being part of the job. I have no issue in doing this and feel pretty confident in pipe work as long as its not soldering and tidy on show stuff (this isnt) so am taking on the task myself. Fingers crossed
I am looking at moving our central heating return pipe, which tees into the return pipe coming from the loft (cylinder location) near our boiler, into the roof space above our kitchen and teeing back into the main return from the loft further back which is also in the roof space. This is going to take a bit of arsing about to run the pipe round a few obstructions.
Is there such thing as too many 90 degree joints or too long a pipe run?
Also I'm going to use plastic pipe for the majority of the work but i understand near the boiler this has to be copper. How much of the run from the boiler has to be copper before i can change to plastic?
Cheers all
Gav
Looking for a bit of help with moving some pipes.
We are having some work done and i need to move a few pipes around to tidy things up. I called a plumber in to look at the work and have been quoted an astronomical amount when compared to what the rest of the work is costing. I think its down to it being a bit messy and crawling around in roof space being part of the job. I have no issue in doing this and feel pretty confident in pipe work as long as its not soldering and tidy on show stuff (this isnt) so am taking on the task myself. Fingers crossed
I am looking at moving our central heating return pipe, which tees into the return pipe coming from the loft (cylinder location) near our boiler, into the roof space above our kitchen and teeing back into the main return from the loft further back which is also in the roof space. This is going to take a bit of arsing about to run the pipe round a few obstructions.
Is there such thing as too many 90 degree joints or too long a pipe run?
Also I'm going to use plastic pipe for the majority of the work but i understand near the boiler this has to be copper. How much of the run from the boiler has to be copper before i can change to plastic?
Cheers all
Gav