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CENTRAL HEATING PIPE RUNS
Hi, Can anyone advise me on Pipe Runs in a Central Heating System.
My Boiler is downstairs under the stairs in an alcove, the main Flow and Return pipes in 22m will go from the Boiler up and under the floorboards on the first floor, I intend to T off these 22m pipes in 15m to Radiators, my question is if I drop a flow and return pipe in 15m to a Radiator in the Hall can the same 15m pipes then go to a Radiator in my Front room or do I have to install another Flow and Return pipe from the 22m to that Radiator. |
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Dont want to appear thick but "The radiators need to be connected in
parallel - not in series - of course." What does that mean?. Thanks Set Square and also GymRatz for the reply. |
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wrote in message oups.com... Dont want to appear thick but "The radiators need to be connected in parallel - not in series - of course." What does that mean?. Thanks Set Square and also GymRatz for the reply. In a conventional modern two pipe system, you have a 'flow' (from the boiler) and a 'return' (back to the boiler) pipe and all your radiators connect from one to the other and thus are in parallel. Years ago it was not uncommomon to have a 'one pipe' system, where a single pipe ran arround the area to be heated from the output to the input of the boiler, and each radiator was in parallel with a short section of this pipe (usually the length of the radiator) - this is the system often found in schools and municiple buildings - the pipe often being 2" black iron. Here effectively the radiators are in series with each other. AWEM |
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"Andrew Mawson" wrote: wrote in message oups.com... Dont want to appear thick but "The radiators need to be connected in parallel - not in series - of course." What does that mean?. Thanks Set Square and also GymRatz for the reply. In a conventional modern two pipe system, you have a 'flow' (from the boiler) and a 'return' (back to the boiler) pipe and all your radiators connect from one to the other and thus are in parallel. Years ago it was not uncommomon to have a 'one pipe' system, where a single pipe ran arround the area to be heated from the output to the input of the boiler, and each radiator was in parallel with a short section of this pipe (usually the length of the radiator) - this is the system often found in schools and municiple buildings - the pipe often being 2" black iron. Here effectively the radiators are in series with each other. My mother-in-law has a really odd system that seems to have been originally a DIY install, probably 30 or 40 years ago. Some aspects are rather good - curved radiators in the bay windows for example - but others are decidedly silly; there is no room thermostat and she regulates the house temperature by adjusting the boiler thermostat. The layout of the pipework is rather complicated too and appears to be a mixture of three different systems thus: +-rad-+ -------+-----+----+-----rad----+ Boiler rad | ------------------+------------+ The leftmost radiator is in the standard single-pipe layout, the middle one is in what is commonly used these days ("parallel") and the last one appears to be in series, though shutting it off doesn't seem to affect other radiators in the house so it may not be (I know it wouldn't affect them in the diagram above, but the house obviously has rather more than three radiators and the rad in question is near the boiler so is hardly likely to be at the end of a run). All pipework is in half inch (probably). I'm sure it could be improved but "it works fine for me" so it isn't likely to be any time soon :-) Hwyl! M. -- Martin Angove: http://www.tridwr.demon.co.uk/ Two free issues: http://www.livtech.co.uk/ Living With Technology .... All you folks do not exist. My sysop types all this stuff in. |
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