Plastic pipe behind skirting - going around corners?

[Rojomateus]

Hi all,

Need to move radiators in various rooms in my bungalow. All concrete floors. Been thinking about how to do this. IMHO chasing the concrete will be messy and labour intensive and I will either need to hire or buy new tools. Plus getting at pipework if there are any leaks in the future will require flooring and concrete to come up. (Had a leak in a previous home and it was a bit of a nightmare.). So I am thinking of taking the pipework around the room (plastic pipe) and fitting it behind the skirting board. I am looking a 15mm pipe. However a bit concerned about getting around a corner one external and one internal. Would like to use JG pipe and wondering how deep the angle push fit connectors are and if I would still be able to get them behind the skirting (size of them). Would also like when I get to where I need the pipes to run them a little up into the wall (chased) and then have them exit where the valves will need to be. Ie above skirting. Seen this done for some radiators and it looks need and then no need for flooring to be cut around a pipe? Thoughts on all of this. I don't mind the likely extra expense of doing this.... skirting needs to be replaced in all rooms anyway and I like the idea of relatively easy access to the pipework should there be something wrong in the future. (although very impressed with these speed fittings and pipe.). Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[flameport]

If you really want pipes behind the skirting, then it will have to be built out from the wall by about 50mm, so you will have a ~50mm ledge all around the room, and that is where the pipes to the radiators will come out.
Typically used in refitting concrete construction apartments where there is no possibility of pipes being in the floor or ceiling.

In a bungalow the more usual method is to place pipes in the roof space above and dop down to each radiator either chased into the wall, or for the cheapo option surface mounted to the side of a window so the curtains hide the pipes.

For the chased in option you would use 10mm plastic pipes to an outlet box behind the radiator, this only needs a single chase, easily cut in a couple of minutes with a decent wall chaser.

 

[Rojomateus]

Hi thanks, At the moment the pipes are coming up from the floor.....

 

[trojanhawrs]

Hi thanks, At the moment the pipes are coming up from the floor.....

15mm copper?

Are you taking up existing floor coverings anyway? If so just chase the floors unless you have concerns about hitting existing. A single piece of protected copper pipe is never going to leak, only potential is at the joints which you'd have to make at either end anyway.

 

[Rojomateus]

I am taking up floor coverings but my concern in chasing the floors is mainly with regards to the mess ..... and previously ive been the person with a leak under concrete which required being out of my home for a year and a £650000 insurance claim

 

[endecotp]

I am thinking of taking the pipework around the room (plastic pipe) and fitting it behind the skirting board. I am looking a 15mm pipe. However a bit concerned about getting around a corner one external and one internal. Would like to use JG pipe and wondering how deep the angle push fit connectors are and if I would still be able to get them behind the skirting (size of them).

Push fit connectors are much larger than the pipe diameter. The skirting pipe covers would work better with copper pipe and soldered corners.