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Advice wanted for new rads.
Nov 7^th, 2005, 9:36pm

Hi,

I am replacing all the old Radiators in a house I have just puchased ready for the installation of an Oil combi boiler.

Currently all the downstairs rads are burried in the concrete floor. The person that in installing the boiler recommends that I run all the new downstairs rads from 15mm pipe drops from the first floors.

This would involve 6 drops (and I guess 6 drain valves).

My question is do you thing it is worth doing or should I just run any new rads in this way?

Thanks

Mark.

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JerryD GDPR opt-out Total Thanks: 0 For This Post: 0	Re: Advice wanted for new rads. Reply #1 - Nov 7^th, 2005, 9:38pm [quote author=markadams link=1131399369/0#0 date=1131399369] Currently all the downstairs rads are burried in the concrete floor. [/quote]
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PowerTool GDPR opt-out Total Thanks: 0 For This Post: 0	Re: Advice wanted for new rads. Reply #2 - Nov 7^th, 2005, 10:13pm It's called "underfloor heating"....
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thescruff Global Moderator Trade Member Author Offline Who said plumbing was easy. Posts: 6037 Total Thanks: 147 For This Post: 0 Gender: Trade: Plumber	Re: Advice wanted for new rads. Reply #3 - Nov 7^th, 2005, 10:30pm Depends how old and the condition of the pipes, you could pressure test them, although re-placing sounds the best option. Can't you position the rads back to back to reduce the drops, that way you could feed two rads from each 15mm drop.
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