Adding Radiator To Kitchen..

[iamlee2002]

Hi all, I want to add a radiator in kitchen. I want to plumb it in from existing pipework going to my bathroom rad. My boiler is situated in the bathroom about 4 foot away from bathroom radiator..

From my boiler i have 22mm pipes for the flow and return, going to my bathroom towel rail i have 15mm pipes, is it ok to tee into these about 6 inches in from where they connect to the 22mm pipes?

I would like to connect them to 22mm pipes But it would be impossible to get any access to cut and add tee compressions on them as the pipes are solid and dont fancy messing the boiler pipes up.

I would like to tee in from the 15 mm using 10mm microbore to go to the kitchen, distance from 15mm pipes to the kicthen rad would be roughly 8-10 foot of microbore piping.

Ill try and draw a simple diagram to see if this method will work. Any help is greatly appreciated thanks in advance

Lee

 

[iamlee2002]

Hi just drew this roughly would this work eg would both rads get hot? because before i heard if u tee from a feed going into rad then it can effect it, although it was mentioned the tee joint was almost smack on rad

thanks again

 

[bengasman]

Drawing will work, but don't use microbore, it's pants.

 

[iamlee2002]

thanks for your reply, why do you reckon this about microbore? id prefer using it because its alot easier etc, i got 1 rad in house atm on microbore that heats up fine, rest of the rads (6) are on 15mm from the 22mm piping. So they will both heat up good even though im tee'ing from the 15mm? thanks again buddy any help is big help

 

[bengasman]

thanks for your reply, why do you reckon this about microbore? ...

I don't think it's pants, I know so. Problem prone. If you want to make life easy, just use 15 mm barrier polyplumb.

 

[iamlee2002]

Just got some 15mm piping will use this instead of microbore based on your advise lol going to have a blast at soldering it, only ever used compression joints wish me luck lol thanks again m8

 

[bengasman]

You'll be ok, just takes a bit longer. You really would have regretted it if you had used microbore.