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Moving hot water cylinder - boiler loop pipes?

  • 20-08-2011 10:27am
    #1
    air
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    Hi,
    I want to relocate my hot water cylinder from it's current location on the 1st floor to the attic.
    I have already relocated the feed and expansion tank to help facilitate this.
    The only problem I foresee is rerunning the boiler feed to the cylinder coil.
    The new cylinder location will be closer to the boiler but I'm unsure as to how to get the pipes there.
    It appears that they run in the ceiling space between the ground floor and first floor.
    Just wondering if there are any tricks of the trade or whatever to ease the pain or is it just going to be a case of tearing up flooring?
    There is a radiator manifold on the first floor just below the new cylinder location, would it be best to extend this perhaps and just cap off the old pipes?


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  • #2
    Sparkpea
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    tearing up the floor or depending on where exactly the boiler is, pipe up the side of the house and into the loft direct but u would need to make sure its well insulated.


  • #3
    air
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,834 ✭✭✭air


    Cheers Sparkpea, going out & up might be the way to go so, run would be short - maybe 3m outside.
    Will cut a hole in hot press floor & see if Im any the wiser after that.
    Thanks.


  • #4
    aujopimur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,953 ✭✭✭aujopimur


    Pipes outside, you must be mad have you no recolection of the last two winters we've had.


  • #5
    Sparkpea
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    aujopimur wrote: »
    Pipes outside, you must be mad have you no recolection of the last two winters we've had.

    either way, if hes as smart as everyone else he will have his heat on constant during the bad weather :) pipes can burst even indoors remember...


  • #6
    Joey the lips
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    You will need a slight bit of height between the water tank and the cylinder. This is another problem you will have to overcome.

    I have seen people change there water tank to a closet tank to over come this. The closet tank should be at least 1 mtr higher than the bottom of the cylinder.


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  • #7
    air
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,834 ✭✭✭air


    Hi Joey,
    Thanks for the tip. I've already moved the feed and expansion tank up another storey into the upper attic (house has 3 full height storeys), in order to account for this and to improve the hot water pressure to allow for removal of an existing noisy pump on one shower.
    On the pipes, i'm going to cut open the floor near the upstairs rad manifold as I have a feeling the CH feed pipes to the existing cylinder run the same way.
    If they do I may be able to pull back the existing pipes and then reroute them up through a stud wall to the attic without too much messing. This is the best case scenario for now.


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