I've just bought a house with concrete floors and solid walls, currently the 15mm copper heating pipework is buried within the concrete floor. The current boiler is about 25 years old, I'm going to have it changed for a Combi and do away with all the tanks etc. in the near future.
At some point I'm probably going to have a leak in the floor due to either corrosion or the extra pressure from the sealed system so have decided while I'm about to get everything plastered to replace the pipework now.
How would you guys go about doing this? I've thought about the following options but maybe I have missed something.
1. Cut channels in the floor, run plastic pipework using continuous runs in protective sleeving. Might look a bit turd where it emerges from the floor up to the radiator
2. Hide soldered copper pipework behind the skirting, there is enough depth to the plaster and skirtings to do this. Seems wrong and also a ton of work.
3. Fix 2"x1" to the walls with radiators, do the drops in 15mm copper and plasterboard over, connect up in the ceiling void with plastic.
Not really interested in using Microbore.
Thoughts?
At some point I'm probably going to have a leak in the floor due to either corrosion or the extra pressure from the sealed system so have decided while I'm about to get everything plastered to replace the pipework now.
How would you guys go about doing this? I've thought about the following options but maybe I have missed something.
1. Cut channels in the floor, run plastic pipework using continuous runs in protective sleeving. Might look a bit turd where it emerges from the floor up to the radiator
2. Hide soldered copper pipework behind the skirting, there is enough depth to the plaster and skirtings to do this. Seems wrong and also a ton of work.
3. Fix 2"x1" to the walls with radiators, do the drops in 15mm copper and plasterboard over, connect up in the ceiling void with plastic.
Not really interested in using Microbore.
Thoughts?