Oil central heating installation starting in attic

youtellmepls · 02-03-2022 08:45PM #1

Getting oil central heating installed, I know the house will be pulled apart 🙈we currently have no heating system at all in place.

Question, had a lad around last week looking at the house and he said we could have a pipe going from the boiler outside directly to the attic and then bringing the pipes down the house - instead of digging up the downstairs floors and going upwards.

Is this ideal? Can the pipe go from the pump to the attic and then down?

Any advice would be appreciated thanks!

02-03-2022 09:25PM

What energy rating has the house?

A heat pump might be a better option

youtheman · 03-03-2022 04:32PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058235607/oil-central-heating-installation-starting-in-attic

Yes it can. My Parent's bungalow was built in the mid 1970's. Piping was 'gun barrel metal' buried in a sand that was taken from the nearby beach. Needless to say is quickly rotted. So we had the complete central heating piping re-done. A small section was re-buried from the boiler house into the inside hall. Then it went up into the attic where is 'dropped down' into each radiator in the bedroom (nicely hidden in the built in wardrobes). For the main room it dropped down in the corner of the room and then across the skirting board. Not the prettiest, but at least there is no external heat loss.

Only problem with running pipework into the attic is that air gathers in the highest point. So you'll have to put some automatic vent valves up there.

cruizer101 · 03-03-2022 04:53PM

WE are redoing the heating in ours which involved moving boiler and getting rid of some of the downstairs pipework.

So the way we have the pipes going is from boiler outside, in under utility which is wooden floors (most of downstairs is concrete but is is the old garage) and then up to the hotpress which is fairly central in the house and is where the controls and zoning are. Then we split off and go to the different rads around the house, bit of through stud walls or that.

So its similar to you setup.

youtheman · 04-03-2022 01:49PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118726639#Comment_118726639

If I was re-running central heating piping from outside then I'd look at (I think it's called) 'district piping'. You can but the 2 sets of pipe encased in very high spec insulation. https://www.pipelife.ie/plumbing-systems/plumbing-heating-pipes/district-heating-pipe.html

Oil central heating installation starting in attic

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