System Conversion Part 1: Upgrading Your Plumbing To A Combi Boiler
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- At the start of the mini heatwave we have just had my mate asked if could give him a hand on as system conversion. I went into this job blind not knowing the set up, when we started looking at the job it became clear there was going to be problems.
As we go into the video you will see the awkward gas run we had to figure out and the mess of pipes underneath the floor
We will be removing the radiators and starting to fit new ones with new feeds. The boiler wasn’t the easiest to remove either as it was all boxed in at the top so you couldn’t see any pipework
System conversions can throw up all types of problems but I think we had more than our fair share on this one
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Speaking of asbestos just be careful knocking holes in that artex just in case. As plumb like Tom alway says its never easy. Looking forward to seeing how you sort the gas out👍
🙌👍 asbestos ain’t that bad in our area but I know certain areas it’s absolutely everywhere! Gas run…well we got there in the end 😂
That’s brilliant the blue stuff
just finished a quite simple conversion tonight and when I tested the old mixer shower it burst inside the wall, good job I told him i was replacing the shower.
Haven’t had that happen to often, had the odd rad burst and tap drip but can happen when converting
Just about everything that can be a pain in the arse all rolled into one job. Feel for you on this one mate.
Everyday seemed to throw something new to sort out on this one! Wasn’t very straight forward
The 2 old rads upstairs were probably part of a gravity fed system back in the days
Think your right there 👍
Luuuuuke. Top man, top video. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Stephen 🙌👍
Great stuff lads, this vid needs to be shown to people who think plumbing is easy and just a bit of push fit. Very well done. Like them boilers
Thanks mate, yeah plumbing is never straight forward, rare you get a job with no complications
I can see you used to work for British gas ?
Did mate, 8 years I did there 👍
Hello mate just a quick one, I need to replace a rad in my room how would I know which one to get?
You can get radiator calculator online, will ask room size and should give you the size that you want 👍
I’d of been tempted to try it on the 15mm gas 😮😂😂
😂 would of been a long shot but you never know
Heat leak rad
Same as mine was used to have primatic cylinder and solid back boiler in fireplace
This heating system looks like an old one pipe system or a gravity system without a pump?
Yes mate was originally a back boiler system by looks of it the way the pipework ran
Could you not have gone into cupbourd at bottom of stairs then into front bed ?
No we did check to see if it could be hidden inside cupboard but in part 2 you see there’s a beam…we end up going right in corner as well
That "old fashioned hospital" radiator is actually plumbed in the most efficient method. Bottom in, Top out is worth approx 10% more heat output. That's a style of plumbing rad that's used in Europe
Yes mate spot on, put a shorter video of them rads on tiktok and few people said same as you 👍 I have seen more modern rads piped like this with TRV at top, makes sense it would circulate better
The joys of encountering 1960,s heating systems that have been "updated " over the years!
I take it the original boiler was a back boiler and the cylinder was the original Primatic with gravity rad on landing, ( hence 3/4" top and bottom flow and return. Compression swept tees under the floor are a giveaway!
Later on more rads where added and they probably fully pumped the system without replacing the cylinder.
Not a good idea, the air bubble is the only thing that maintains separation of the heating and DHW and the addition of a pump can often compromise that.
What you called Stramit, was more likely woodwool and is bound with cement and probably did not contain asbestos.
But in the absence of a specialist appraisal, you made the right call!
Easy for me to make comment because I started in the trade in the 1960's and have seen a lot.
Well done for how you went about it!
On the subject of the spacing off the wall of rads, there is a reduction of heat output but may only be a consideration in a situation with ASHP's running at lower temps; sorry that's nit picking!
Great job, look forward to part 2!
Spot on John was an old back boiler and they have just bolted onto it, unlucky for us as we had to start again 😅 the boards I was 50/50 to just drill and get gas up but knowing this job would of came back it’s asbestos knowing our luck. Thanks for the comment mate really appreciated, see you on part 2!
Top work bud them profiles whey a bloody ton dred taking them off the wall always in the most awkward of places keep it going mate 👍😎👍😎😎👍😎👍
Yeah was a lot heavier than expected I think you can tell in my face 😂
🔵🔵👏👏👏well done🔵🔵
Great video mate shows heating can be a shot show but don't you use any heat reflectors behind the rads?
Can be tricky sometimes! I don’t to be honest never rated it
That's a graft that mate😢
The heat was horrible, sweating buckets everyday! 😅
4 days, loads of time to get that done 😊
It was mate to be fair but found we was slower with the heat, was a sweaty 4 days 🥵
Makes no sense to move the boiler with all that extra pipework?
Still would of been extra pipework if it stayed in kitchen with gas run and hot and colds
RIP the profile 🫡 workhouses they are
Served it’s time we’ll to be fair, customer said not had many issues over the years, just was time for an upgrade before new kitchen fitted