hiding drop feed microbore

[mk2phil]

I'd like to hide the pipework that drop feed into my living room and other ground floor rooms. Currently its copper 8-10-12mm microbore thats got capping over the top of it. I need to move a radiator anyway and was planning on using 15mm Hep20 for this, but realised that I won't be able to hide this in anyway, the best I can do is cap it.

So, I'm thinking about chasing my walls, sinking plastic conduit pipe into the walls and then plastering them in place. Then I should be able to feed 10mm Hep20 microbore down the conduit void to the radiator below without it being visible.

Is this possible and is it recommended?

 

[corgiman]

dont see why not.

 

[Blasphemous]

Try to avoid any joints in the conduit as any leakage/problems later will obviously mean you having to dig out the wall to get to the problem.

Oh, and obviously make sure you pressure test the system before you fill in the wall.

edit:
You know, you could just use Compression fittings and microbore. Compression fittings come in 8mm and 10mm.

 

[mk2phil]

I'm hoping that with the flexibility of microbore AND the fact it'll be hep20 that I'll be able to go from the manifold across the floorboards to the end of the wall and down into the living room without having to make any joints, just one continous run. This way I'll only have to worry about the connection at the manifold and the one oat the rad.

Although with the rad connection I might use a slimline elbow fitting to get a better angle on the pipe when entering the rad valve.

When you say: "You know, you could just use Compression fittings and microbore. Compression fittings come in 8mm and 10mm."

I'm not sure what you're getting at? Do you think I should use copper microbore instead? Or are you referring the the way its connected to the main feed and return - use compression on the main feed and return rather than coming out of a manifold?

Thanks