Hey guys, tried searching for an answer but couldnt find one, so thought I'd post. Be gentle!
I'm in a bungalow with a Y plan system and a heat only boiler (Potterton Profile 40E). The cylinder is now mains pressure as I added solar thermal.
Recently, I insulated my floors, removed the radiators and added UFH. And now it's time to do the plumbing work!
The two drawings show what I am moving from and to but I am trying to work out what I need to do and where the additional 2 port vale needs to go (initial thoughts were before the UFH pump) because I was told just to tee off from the boiler (where I suggested) and move to S plan in the future, as the Y plan would work for now (plus the pump overrun would dump water into the hot water tank, which is fine with me.)
However, the more I read, the most confused I'm getting because ideally the system pump would be before the UFH pump? However, it's currently next to the cylinder.
Plus - and please forgive my ignorance - the plan was be the cap off the removed radiator system pipes but if I connected them, although it's inefficient due to pipe length, would that solve the pump issue and I could keep the Y plan? Or have I just vomited nonsense?
I will get a heating engineer a friend knows to get the work done but if I can get everything together and make their life easier, I can get it all done asap....ie-before winter bites!
I'm in a bungalow with a Y plan system and a heat only boiler (Potterton Profile 40E). The cylinder is now mains pressure as I added solar thermal.
Recently, I insulated my floors, removed the radiators and added UFH. And now it's time to do the plumbing work!
The two drawings show what I am moving from and to but I am trying to work out what I need to do and where the additional 2 port vale needs to go (initial thoughts were before the UFH pump) because I was told just to tee off from the boiler (where I suggested) and move to S plan in the future, as the Y plan would work for now (plus the pump overrun would dump water into the hot water tank, which is fine with me.)
However, the more I read, the most confused I'm getting because ideally the system pump would be before the UFH pump? However, it's currently next to the cylinder.
Plus - and please forgive my ignorance - the plan was be the cap off the removed radiator system pipes but if I connected them, although it's inefficient due to pipe length, would that solve the pump issue and I could keep the Y plan? Or have I just vomited nonsense?
I will get a heating engineer a friend knows to get the work done but if I can get everything together and make their life easier, I can get it all done asap....ie-before winter bites!