CH Installation book

[gony]

Hi,

I have moved into a new house with storage hearing which is not very effective and v expensive. I would like to install a CH system up to but not including the boiler ie laying pipes and attaching radiators. Can anyone recommend a good book on the subject or point me to a site with good instructions?

 

[gassafeengineer]

better to let a professional do it, not many people are keen on finishing other peoples work as they dont know whats been done and if you ever get a problem you can guarantee the engineer will say the problem is with something you have done

 

[Whitespirit66]

Do you have any plumbing experience? Maybe see if your local tech. college runs evening courses.

 

[rojaca]

there's a bit more to it than banging the rad's on the wall and putting pipes to them I'm afraid. I hope I'm not coming across as being condesending as I don't mean to, you'll probably do just as good a job as a lot of combi only installers.
If you want a good general overview try contacting HVCA for the Domestic Heating Design Guide. I believe they do an installation guide as well now.
Don't get me wrong I'm a bit of a bibliophile (I SAID BIBLIO!!!) but this really is one of those situations where books will only give you so much.

 

[gony]

"there's a bit more to it than banging the rad's on the wall and putting pipes to them I'm afraid"

I was hoping to plan out the piping layout, run then, hang and connect rads and then call out professional to do the rest - i.e. do the time consuming grunt work myself as I have free time at moment - is there any of this type of work I could take on? I am an experienced DIYer (fitted complete kitchen etc).