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Hi, I own a typical 1930’s semi which I purchased last year and I’m slowly renovating it room by room. It’s only a small two bedroom one bathroom property with two radiators and a heated towel rail upstairs and three radiators downstairs.
The combo boiler is in the main bedroom cupboard and after lifting he floorboards in the spare bedroom there is 22mm copper piping into a manifold which has 10mm microbore flow and returns to the two radiators and towel rail. I’m assuming there is another one elsewhere that feeds the downstairs ones but I am yet to find that one.
After watching what feels like thousands of hours of YouTube videos I’ve decided to tackle some very basic plumbing tasks myself.
I have replaced the small radiator in the spare bedroom to a new fancy anthracite designer one. I stayed with 10mm piping due to the run from the manifold being short (about a meter and a half from the manifold to the radiator).
I’m using JG plastic piping (I know, but I’m a novice). I cut the copper microbore about six inches from the manifold and used a 10mm JG push fit connector to connect the copper 10mm pipe to the 10mm plastic pipe and ran the plastic pipe directly into the radiator valves using 15mm reducers. I covered the exposed plastic pipe with chrome covers so it all looks good and heats up relatively quickly and generates a lot of heat.
My thought process with this, is that they are less joins to contend with and therefore less chance of any leaks.
All the other radiators in the house run fine. They heat up quickly and generate a lot of heat (although they are old and dated)
I have two questions.
I am replacing all the radiators in the house for similar sized radiators (albeit it modern designer radiators) as the current ones although working fine, are showing signs of ageing and need replacing.
Should I stick to 10mm pipes? I’m not skilled enough to do anything overly fancy and would be just cutting the existing copper pipe and connecting the plastic pipe using push fit connectors and then piping straight into the radiator valves.
Or should I use 15mm plastic pipe (connected the same way) and use a push fit elbow joint and attach a 15mm copper pipe from the elbow into the radiator valve.
Also, I would like to add a small radiator on my landing and also an additional one in the open plan kitchen/ dining room.
Can I tee into the existing 10mm pipe and run a second radiator in the same room or is it more complicated ?
Also is it ok to stick with JG Speed fit or spend a little more money and go for Hep2o as I understand theirs doesn’t undo easily accept with a key (although I’m aware the new ones do)?
Any advice or guidance is greatly appreciated.
The combo boiler is in the main bedroom cupboard and after lifting he floorboards in the spare bedroom there is 22mm copper piping into a manifold which has 10mm microbore flow and returns to the two radiators and towel rail. I’m assuming there is another one elsewhere that feeds the downstairs ones but I am yet to find that one.
After watching what feels like thousands of hours of YouTube videos I’ve decided to tackle some very basic plumbing tasks myself.
I have replaced the small radiator in the spare bedroom to a new fancy anthracite designer one. I stayed with 10mm piping due to the run from the manifold being short (about a meter and a half from the manifold to the radiator).
I’m using JG plastic piping (I know, but I’m a novice). I cut the copper microbore about six inches from the manifold and used a 10mm JG push fit connector to connect the copper 10mm pipe to the 10mm plastic pipe and ran the plastic pipe directly into the radiator valves using 15mm reducers. I covered the exposed plastic pipe with chrome covers so it all looks good and heats up relatively quickly and generates a lot of heat.
My thought process with this, is that they are less joins to contend with and therefore less chance of any leaks.
All the other radiators in the house run fine. They heat up quickly and generate a lot of heat (although they are old and dated)
I have two questions.
I am replacing all the radiators in the house for similar sized radiators (albeit it modern designer radiators) as the current ones although working fine, are showing signs of ageing and need replacing.
Should I stick to 10mm pipes? I’m not skilled enough to do anything overly fancy and would be just cutting the existing copper pipe and connecting the plastic pipe using push fit connectors and then piping straight into the radiator valves.
Or should I use 15mm plastic pipe (connected the same way) and use a push fit elbow joint and attach a 15mm copper pipe from the elbow into the radiator valve.
Also, I would like to add a small radiator on my landing and also an additional one in the open plan kitchen/ dining room.
Can I tee into the existing 10mm pipe and run a second radiator in the same room or is it more complicated ?
Also is it ok to stick with JG Speed fit or spend a little more money and go for Hep2o as I understand theirs doesn’t undo easily accept with a key (although I’m aware the new ones do)?
Any advice or guidance is greatly appreciated.
