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No one can say you dont explain yourself Dave ha ha . Cheers kop
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No one can say you dont explain yourself Dave ha ha . Cheers kop
Thanks for all the interest in my question.
Having considered all input, I think I will just leave things as they are ( but maybe get feedback from potential tenants as to what they think of the black condensate pipe )
cheers
As long as you got a good fall that’s just in my opinion. I never came across a frozen 32mm KOP. I unfortunately have to also disagree on 3m in total. I really think what the mis states is external 3m in total but it could be longer for example, 2m inside, and 3 outside. That’s the way I see it.You sure Ron ?
So in this case ......................................................This pipe runs almost 3 metres across the outside wall of the kitchen and then a further 2 metres round a corner to the drain.
The reasons condensate freezes so readily is because in the UK we do not run our boilers in perm condensing mode. If we did it would be far less of an issue. So, running them as we do we get literal drops of condensate flowing every so often. As drops of water contain virtually zero sensible heat to give up they soon transfer it into the open atmosphere of the pipe. At 4 degs C and below they then give up their even smaller amounts of latent heat and change state to ice and we have the start of a freeze.
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