I'm trying to connect up a condensate pump to avoid the frozen pipe issue I had last year and could do with some advice.
The boiler is mounted on the end wall of my loft and situated about as far from the soil pipe as it's possible to get! (9 metres away). The original fitters dropped the condensate pipe into the rainwater gutter so you can imagine what happened to it last year when the gutters themselves were frozen solid.
I bought a Grundfos Conlift and 15 m of PVC hose to take the condensate across the loft and into a 4" plastic soil pipe in the extension. My plan was to run the pvc hose inside some 21mm overflow pipe firstly to support the hose and secondly to make it easy to insulate (use 22mm pipe insulation around the outside). At the soil end I was going to fix a strap on boss with a 21mm adapter to the soil pipe and use the pvcverflow adapter that came with the pump to connect into the soil with overflow pipe. Unfortunately the soil pipe is so close to the roof truss on one side that I can't get the strap on boss around it.
I have two questions:
Can I cut the strap off the boss and fix it to the soil just with solvent or does anyone have a better suggestion for how to connect into the soil? The joint would be above the level of all the other waste pipes and about a foot below the air admittance valve.
Does the pvc pipe have to run downhill all the way or is a level section OK? To save obstructing the loft hatch I was thinking of running it up from the pump then along at ridge level before dropping it down to run along a joist for the last 3 metres.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
The boiler is mounted on the end wall of my loft and situated about as far from the soil pipe as it's possible to get! (9 metres away). The original fitters dropped the condensate pipe into the rainwater gutter so you can imagine what happened to it last year when the gutters themselves were frozen solid.
I bought a Grundfos Conlift and 15 m of PVC hose to take the condensate across the loft and into a 4" plastic soil pipe in the extension. My plan was to run the pvc hose inside some 21mm overflow pipe firstly to support the hose and secondly to make it easy to insulate (use 22mm pipe insulation around the outside). At the soil end I was going to fix a strap on boss with a 21mm adapter to the soil pipe and use the pvcverflow adapter that came with the pump to connect into the soil with overflow pipe. Unfortunately the soil pipe is so close to the roof truss on one side that I can't get the strap on boss around it.
I have two questions:
Can I cut the strap off the boss and fix it to the soil just with solvent or does anyone have a better suggestion for how to connect into the soil? The joint would be above the level of all the other waste pipes and about a foot below the air admittance valve.
Does the pvc pipe have to run downhill all the way or is a level section OK? To save obstructing the loft hatch I was thinking of running it up from the pump then along at ridge level before dropping it down to run along a joist for the last 3 metres.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.