Hi can anyone please help I'm having our upstairs rooms moved round to make a 3rd room and I'm taking out our airing cupboard and found piping can anyone tell me what this is, what's it for and if I can take it out/move it as the wall behind it is being knocked through. The pic is in my album not sure how to add it.
Can anyone help, Plumbing in my airing cupboard.
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The right hand pipe is the flow from the boiler to what was probably the cylinder (I assume you have a combi boiler downstairs).
The valve is a by-pass valve.
Christ knows what it is doing there.
Some one was having a laugh when they fitted it.
I would guess, without seeing it first hand, that the valve can be removed, the floor lifted and the loop of pipe cut back and remade under the floor.
Under there you might find a bag of whatever the plumber was smoking when he did that
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The valve is a by-pass valve.
Christ knows what it is doing there.
Some one was having a laugh when they fitted it.
I would guess, without seeing it first hand, that the valve can be removed, the floor lifted and the loop of pipe cut back and remade under the floor.
Under there you might find a bag of whatever the plumber was smoking when he did that
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, the red cap on the end has 50 , don't what that for.
In that case all I can think it is a heating loop to give you some heat in the airing cupboard. Still don't know why they put a bypass valve in a loop of pipe though.
Could still all be cut out and joined under the floor sans by-pass valve.
Could still all be cut out and joined under the floor sans by-pass valve.
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