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heating pipes above ground

  • 23-09-2010 11:00pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 134 ✭✭


    My house is 25 yrs old and I have had a few leaks over the years, its done in copper and fittings. I would like to by pass the system and install new pipes above the ground . preferebly qualplex and bring the heating pipes up the corner of the room boxed in ,to the attic space above, its a dormer. The hot press would shift upstairs also. Would this system work ok or would there be any problems with the water having to travel downstairs to the rads.


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 902 ✭✭✭DoneDL


    Yeah nothing wrong with doing it that way, very common design in the UK.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I'v never understood the fixation with burying pipework, it's very easy to hide surface run pipework.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,262 ✭✭✭Buford T Justice


    Try to avoid using qual pex on open systems if you can. People have said to me that the pipes sag when heated and sludge sits in them, reducing the circulation. I've always been recommended to use copper where possible, have also been told that the cost difference isn't that much


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Joey the lips


    gary71 wrote: »
    I'v never understood the fixation with burying pipework, it's very easy to hide surface run pipework.

    I agree but having said that if i were in a new house i would want it hid but there is no way i would pull up good wooden floors in an old house.
    Try to avoid using qual pex on open systems if you can. People have said to me that the pipes sag when heated and sludge sits in them, reducing the circulation. I've always been recommended to use copper where possible, have also been told that the cost difference isn't that much

    I will leave this to an expert but i would prefere not to use pex on an open system as the temps can be so diverse that its hard to control.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,262 ✭✭✭Buford T Justice


    I agree but having said that if i were in a new house i would want it hid but there is no way i would pull up good wooden floors in an old house.



    I will leave this to an expert but i would prefere not to use pex on an open system as the temps can be so diverse that its hard to control.

    Didn't I say that?


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