pipe insulation

vanderbadger

lads with talk of another cold winter coming whats the best insulation to use on exposed hydrodare piping, could use the foam stuff but will that fall to bits when exposed to weather?

reilig

vanderbadger wrote: »

lads with talk of another cold winter coming whats the best insulation to use on exposed hydrodare piping, could use the foam stuff but will that fall to bits when exposed to weather?

Armaflex is pretty much the best pipe insulation that you can buy for pipe insulation. Its black and rubbery. It won't fall apart with weathering either. But it can be quite expensive and most hardwares will have to order it in for you. But its worth it IMO.

BeeDI

reilig wrote: »

Armaflex is pretty much the best pipe insulation that you can buy for pipe insulation. Its black and rubbery. It won't fall apart with weathering either. But it can be quite expensive and most hardwares will have to order it in for you. But its worth it IMO.

Is that the stuff you sometimes see mains water pipes covered with as the mains travels overground in places. For example you sometimes see a mains carried over a river, suspended on the frame of a bridge.

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gerico

another option if you have a little spare time is to cover the exposed pipe with standard piping insulation foam lengths and then cover that with plysolene (http://www.plysolene.com/products-pib.asp) available from steel piping stockholders/ plumbings merchants. its very easy to apply and gives a very durable, weatherproof finish. I have used it for this purpose and it worked out very well.

johnstown

gerico wrote: »

another option if you have a little spare time is to cover the exposed pipe with standard piping insulation foam lengths and then cover that with plysolene (http://www.plysolene.com/products-pib.asp) available from steel piping stockholders/ plumbings merchants. its very easy to apply and gives a very durable, weatherproof finish. I have used it for this purpose and it worked out very well.

Gerico, Plysolene looks like exactly what I was looking for. I asked a few hardware places that stock the armaflex and they knew nothing of such a product. Are you referring to the Plysolene PIB sheeting? If so do you just wrap around and seal with insulation tape? Do you reckon if used in conjuntion with standard foam insulation that it would cope with -12 C or more? I see its weather proof, would birds attack it at all?

Thanks

gerico

yip its the PIB sheeting. cut it with a scissors wrap it with an overlap and bond. I use petrol both sides and press together and they're stuck. I have used it in a stud farm for their wash stands and it worked straight through last winter no probs . never seen bird damage on it either. its an industrial product so you wont get it in retail outlets

kay 9

You could use armaflex or foil back pipe insulation and wrap it with denso tape, but that denso is awful **** for workin with. No doubt the elements or chemicals won't do much to it though.

gerico

denso is good stuff but very messy. A 4" roll costs about a tenner plus its slow to use