Passable work or bodge job!?

[Keith O'KEEFFE]

Are you on a sealed system?? Also as the pipes heat and cool they expand and contract this is equally disturbing to the o rings as the pipes will move. Albeit fractionally but it still moves

Combi boiler

 

[gmartine]

AND taped up so any potential lime cannot pin hole the copper

Fabric tape will do, can also be used to hold up the wall.

 

[Riley]

Combi boiler

So it’s a sealed system at a minimum of 1bar rising to 2-2.5 when hot. Up to you

 

[Keith O'KEEFFE]

So it’s at a sealed system at a minimum of 1bar rising to 2-2.5 when hot. Up to you

You've lost me on that one I'm afraid! In my mind the chances of one of the O rings popping is relatively small. Just want him to get on with the rest of the job. We're in a Victorian property, it's amazing to me all the little bodges and quick fixes hidden under the floorboards, the ceilings and walls! You can get too stressed over every minute detail of a job and it just ends up with a Soded off workman

 

[Riley]

Ok up to you but your heating could conceivably rise pressure wise to 2.5 bar which is likely higher than your incoming mains. For the sake of two elbows I’d change it. And the minute details as you call them can often be the difference between a good and a bad job

 

[Harvest Fields]

You have to do what you think is best mate. We are only giving you recommendations on how we think that it should be done. But as long as you are happy.

 

[Keith O'KEEFFE]

You have to do what you think is best mate. We are only giving you recommendations on how we think that it should be done. But as long as you are happy.

Cheers, I'll be happy when it's all in and there are no leaks. Thanks again for the guidance.

 

[Harvest Fields]

Cheers, I'll be happy when it's all in and there are no leaks. Thanks again for the guidance.

Just bare that in mind if one of the John guest push fit fitting leak later on.

 

[Burger]

In my honest opinion, I wouldn’t be concealing a speedfit joint. The copper to the radiator needs to be protected from corrosion and movement (clipped).

The water regulations state the following:

No pipe shall be embedded in any wall or solid floor without meeting certain conditions.

No pipe shall be installed in a way it may become unduly warmed.

https://www.wras.co.uk/downloads/pu...eral/para_7_guidance_version_2_july_2014.pdf/

 

[Keith O'KEEFFE]

In my honest opinion, I wouldn’t be concealing a speedfit joint. The copper to the radiator needs to be protected from corrosion and movement (clipped).

The water regulations state the following:

No pipe shall be embedded in any wall or solid floor without meeting certain conditions.

No pipe shall be installed in a way it may become unduly warmed.

https://www.wras.co.uk/downloads/pu...eral/para_7_guidance_version_2_july_2014.pdf/

Since the original picture, the plastic feed coming into the room through the wall has been changed to copper and the Speedfit elbow dropping the pipe down is now soldered copper. It switches to plastic pipe once under the floor. The plastic joint on the right hand side of the radiator flow is now in the void between the joists. Only thing that will be buried now is soldered copper piping.