Help! Adjusting rad pipes and microbore to 15mm?

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Last year i did our en suite which involved replacing a standard radiator with a towel radiator. All the rads in the house are on 10mm pipes which are burred in the wall. When i replaced the rad in the en suite i lifted the floorboards, chopped the pipes, used 10 to 15 mm pushfit converters and ran 15mm chrome plated pipes up through the floorboard into the towel rad. In the bathroom i dont have the option of doing this as the pipes come up the internal wall and between joists. I have no access to the pipes until they above floor level. The pipes also have some white plastic coating on them. What's that all about? Can i just peel this off with a stanley?

What's the easiest and neatest way to tackle this? I'm tiling the bathroom with large format tiles so they'll cover the big hole i've made in the plaster board.

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This is the rad in the ensuite. I'd have liked to have done that same but guess i'll have to come out the wall. Is there anyway i can do this in chrome to match the rad?

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Yes, just cut the plastic coating off.

Convert the pipe inside the wall to 15mmm then bring chrome pipe out of the wall, 2 chrome push fit or compression elbows/valves, then up into the rad?
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