DIY Project To Zone My House

[Richard at Home]

Good evening and a happy new year to you all

I welcome any comments and feedback to my project I am looking at starting in 2013

now I know all this sort of thing can be done with many of the costly out of the box solutions that probably cost more than the boiler itself

What I am looking at doing is to create a heating system that has at least 3 Zones

I believe I could do this with some changes to the main Pipe work and 3 motorised zone valves and an additional time clock


Reason for project

During the day one member of my family is at home and requires heating to be on for 4 rads in part of the house.

Currently I am heating all the house all day when only part of the house needs to be heated

My daughter-in-law is also at home some times when not at Uni and may need her front room heating.

Now my logic is to have the secondary time clock switching the water flow between parts of the house during the day and in the evenings opening all valves to heat the complete house

Now I know this could also be done with the new wireless digital TVRs but this expense would be significant


I will add to this post as the project develops

If you have any questions or would like to bounce ideas or comments please reply and this may become an interesting post.


Thank you for your time

Best regards

Richard

 

[smtplumbing]

o and the waste run on the basin waste

 

[ecowarm]

My first post on this thread, and a word of warning Richard!!! All the electrical components on a heating system must be isolated at one point. It is not acceptable to have seperate parts on separate fused spares i.e time clock and 2 port on a completly separate circuit to any other part of the system. Think about it, some comes to work on the system and isolates the system by the fused spare at the boiler and the starts working on the system?????????

 

[stevetheplumber]

I assume your engineering course didnt explain self cleaning gradients

 

[stevetheplumber]

Why the four bends on the waste ? Expansion loop?

 

[Koogatubac]

Does your basin waste in your bathroom just go in your bath trap?
Hard to see from pictures

 

[PlumbBobBob]

Why the four bends on the waste ? Expansion loop?

black spot for clogging

 

[dancinplumba]

this reminds me.....don't enter job of the month :-(

 

[Richard at Home]

This is the bathroom looks now it is finished

I do not have a picture of the boxing around the waste pipe but it is fine and looks good and does not look out of place.

Thanks

 

[TBServices]

Skirting in a fully tiled bathroom? Woe is me.

 

[dancinplumba]

don't fancy being watched in the bath :-(

 

[Koogatubac]

Love the towel rad though!

 

[erpkid]

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Some pictures of my plastic pipe work in the bathroom and kitchen sink

Looks like the end of the push fits are buried/restricted in the plaster. This is not good practice whoever did it.

 

[Richard at Home]

Does your basin waste in your bathroom just go in your bath trap?
Hard to see from pictures

No the main 110mm soil pipe has 2 separate collars that take the individual outlet from the sink waste trap and bath trap

 

[Richard at Home]

Love the towel rad though!

Thanks I have another 2 to fit in the main bathroom and the other the second en suite

 

[TBServices]

Love the towel rad though!

On special at STAX this month. Hundred quid plus the dreaded.