The kitchen in my house doesn't have a radiator and gets freezing in the winter. The huge living room radiator (2m long no fins) also struggles to heat up. My intention was to add a new radiator in the kitchen, and replace the living room rad with one with a higher BTU for a smaller footprint.
Then realised I have a single pipe system (all rads have bypass pipes underneath) .......
I am currently sketching out how I may be able to run a new feed and return system, without tearing too much of the house up.
In the process of this planning I have come across some oddities with my existing circuit.
From the Boiler a 22mm Feed tees off to :
1) a 15mm pipe run that feeds the main bedroom upstairs then drops downstairs to feed the living room and hallway. It then disappears under laminate flooring in the dining room.......
2) a 22mm pipe that runs through the 2nd bedroom, bathroom and 3rd bedroom before looping back to the 2nd bedroom where it drops down into my dining room, where it feeds a radiator then disappears under laminate flooring.......
Returning to the Boiler is a 22mm return pipe that rises from the dining room downstairs (hidden in boxed in extension to chimney)
I am assuming that both the 22mm circuit and the 15mm circuit meet somewhere near my chimney in the dining room and return on the single 22mm return.
Was this a conventional method of extending a single pipe system?!
It appears to me what this does is prioritise the upstairs radiators first before the 2 loops drop downstairs. Which is why its ruddy cold downstairs!
Would you all strip out and replace, or modifiy the existing circuit?
Thanks
Then realised I have a single pipe system (all rads have bypass pipes underneath) .......
I am currently sketching out how I may be able to run a new feed and return system, without tearing too much of the house up.
In the process of this planning I have come across some oddities with my existing circuit.
From the Boiler a 22mm Feed tees off to :
1) a 15mm pipe run that feeds the main bedroom upstairs then drops downstairs to feed the living room and hallway. It then disappears under laminate flooring in the dining room.......
2) a 22mm pipe that runs through the 2nd bedroom, bathroom and 3rd bedroom before looping back to the 2nd bedroom where it drops down into my dining room, where it feeds a radiator then disappears under laminate flooring.......
Returning to the Boiler is a 22mm return pipe that rises from the dining room downstairs (hidden in boxed in extension to chimney)
I am assuming that both the 22mm circuit and the 15mm circuit meet somewhere near my chimney in the dining room and return on the single 22mm return.
Was this a conventional method of extending a single pipe system?!
It appears to me what this does is prioritise the upstairs radiators first before the 2 loops drop downstairs. Which is why its ruddy cold downstairs!
Would you all strip out and replace, or modifiy the existing circuit?
Thanks