I'm currently having some building work done.
As part of this I'll be adding a radiator. This will be more or less directly above the boiler. The 22mm flow and return pipes run straight past where I want to put the radiator, so I was going to just tee in and run 15mm to the new radiator.
That was all simple enough but then as I've just been looking at the current setup, I figured I would be better to simplify another radiator in the house. It was one we had added a few years back to give a radiator in the utility room which previously didn't have one. If the access had been available at the time it would have been much better to have tee'd off in the same place as I'm about to, but that wasn't possible at the time without major disruption, so instead they tee'd off on the main flow and return loop in the house, and ran pipes about 7m long through the garage to the utility. I've never liked the idea behind this and although they are lagged it must be inefficient as the 22mm pipes run one way above then it runs all the way back again.
So my thoughts are to disconnect and remove the long pipe to this radiator and plumb it in much closer to the boiler along with the new rad.
The difficulty I will have is space to do it. There isn't quite space to do two tees in that spot.
So I could do one tee and then split the 15mm to go to two radiators. Would that work?
Or I could add another T a bit further down the line, but then route the 15mm pipe back.
The new rad is basically above the old one that I would like to replumb.
I'm guessing two separate Tees off the 22mm would be better but just wanted to check as the other way would be easier to plumb!
Thanks
As part of this I'll be adding a radiator. This will be more or less directly above the boiler. The 22mm flow and return pipes run straight past where I want to put the radiator, so I was going to just tee in and run 15mm to the new radiator.
That was all simple enough but then as I've just been looking at the current setup, I figured I would be better to simplify another radiator in the house. It was one we had added a few years back to give a radiator in the utility room which previously didn't have one. If the access had been available at the time it would have been much better to have tee'd off in the same place as I'm about to, but that wasn't possible at the time without major disruption, so instead they tee'd off on the main flow and return loop in the house, and ran pipes about 7m long through the garage to the utility. I've never liked the idea behind this and although they are lagged it must be inefficient as the 22mm pipes run one way above then it runs all the way back again.
So my thoughts are to disconnect and remove the long pipe to this radiator and plumb it in much closer to the boiler along with the new rad.
The difficulty I will have is space to do it. There isn't quite space to do two tees in that spot.
So I could do one tee and then split the 15mm to go to two radiators. Would that work?
Or I could add another T a bit further down the line, but then route the 15mm pipe back.
The new rad is basically above the old one that I would like to replumb.
I'm guessing two separate Tees off the 22mm would be better but just wanted to check as the other way would be easier to plumb!
Thanks