Chasing pipes into wall

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I've bought a house, 50s build with concrete ground floor. It needs a new heating system. At the moment, the pipes come from the back boiler and are visible pretty much throughout. You can see where they go under the doorways and on the skirting etc. It's all being pulled out, rads, boiler, pipes and all.

Anyway, due to me wanting everythin hidden and chased (and I want pipes emerging from the wall, not the floor), is there anything wrong with using microbore? Im thinking of just having two large radiators for the living room and the large kitchen/diner, then one medium rad in the hallway. I may be able to just have one 15mm/22mm drop from upstairs in a cupboard, or box across an alcove back, then run the microbore off this.

When using 8mm, what kw can you get out of it? Ie what is the biggest rad you can put on it? Or should i use 10mm? Can you get insulation to fit microbore sizes?

If i were to chase the floor, how deep could I go before I hit any kind of membrane in a 50s house?

A heating engineer will be doing the piping, I will do the donkey work prep.
 
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