Adding a radiator

Black_Knight

We're planning on doing up our hall, and removing/replacing the existing radiator. From day 1 when we bought the house it was very slow to heat, or wouldn't heat at all. Our plumber was around and took a look, and deduced it was because our hall heater (downstairs) is being fed from upstairs, and fighting gravity to pump water in/out of it (he mentioned something about the size of the pipes being too narrow I think - it was a year + since I had this conversation).

Now i'm wondering what my options are. Changing the pipe is not going to happen. It'd likely mean pulling up floorboards in the room above to change the fittings etc. (unless i'm over dramatizing this).

An option i'm wondering about is if I can tap off a heater in the adjacent room? The pipes are buried in the adjacent room, but is it possible to add a T junction to this radiator where the pipes come up from the ground, add new pipework to the T junction and go through the wall, mounting the new radiator on the other side of the wall?

Madness, or no reason it wouldn't work?

Wearb

Black_Knight wrote: »

We're planning on doing up our hall, and removing/replacing the existing radiator. From day 1 when we bought the house it was very slow to heat, or wouldn't heat at all. Our plumber was around and took a look, and deduced it was because our hall heater (downstairs) is being fed from upstairs, and fighting gravity to pump water in/out of it (he mentioned something about the size of the pipes being too narrow I think - it was a year + since I had this conversation).

Now i'm wondering what my options are. Changing the pipe is not going to happen. It'd likely mean pulling up floorboards in the room above to change the fittings etc. (unless i'm over dramatizing this).

An option i'm wondering about is if I can tap off a heater in the adjacent room? The pipes are buried in the adjacent room, but is it possible to add a T junction to this radiator where the pipes come up from the ground, add new pipework to the T junction and go through the wall, mounting the new radiator on the other side of the wall?

Madness, or no reason it wouldn't work?

Yes, if the pipes feeding that radiator are big enough to carry the heat required for both rads.

Black_Knight

Wearb wrote: »

Yes, if the pipes feeding that radiator are big enough to carry the heat required for both rads.

I assume my plumber should be able to tell that?

Ideally, i'll take a tap off those pipes, go through the wall, and while we're doing the hallway up, dig a trench for them to run across the hall to where the existing upstairs fed radiator is currently positioned. We'll be retiling anyways

I like the position of the existing radiator, just not the inefficiency of it.