One for the plumbers...

Microbore - bloody hate the stuff. But it's in my house and that's that.

I've successfully taught myself how to solder copper pipe and reconfigured my entire upstairs hot and cold pipes and waste stacks for a better living space.

However I am now onto moving a couple of rad's and I am trying to work out if using a 10mm to 15mm reducer and adding approx 2 metres of 15mm flow and another 2 metres of return for a bathroom radiator in particular will have an impact either on that particular rad i.e. more volume in 15mm to take up or screwing up the balance for the rest of the set up etc. Thoughts?

 

won't make any difference ,Carry on

 

you was out when I drove past,so I'll send you a bill for £40.00

 

Blimey double post! That's £80 quid now

 

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goes up to £160.00 tomorrow

 

Wait till he adds "sundries" to the bill...

 

Don't do it. !!!

Let me do it instead. £1000 to you. Mates rate.

Seriously it wont make any difference. Why bother with a couple of metres of 15?? Unless it's on show in the new position

 

sundries are very important. Have you seen the price of a smoked salmon and dill sandwich in Waitrose?

 

You've upset 'em all now asking for a plumber when clearly a radiator is a job for a heating engineer

 

3 reasons - I have spare 15mm and don't want to buy excessive amount of 10mm for a short run, the rest of the fittings are 15mm and yes it may be on show though I am hoping I can actually chase it into the wall depending on obstructions

 

Make sure you wrap the copper if you do bury it. Cement does nasty things to copper tube.

 

True. Heating guys do rads, plumbers do bogs...

 

And long may that continue. The only Marmite I want to deal with is my own work!

 

Plumbers = turd chasers
Heating engineers = keep changing parts until the thing works

 

Cheers all

 

Keep changing parts until it works is only stage one.

After that suggest power flush no matter what the fault (British gas stylee)

Stage three. Replace boiler whilst sucking through teeth.

 

My first six months at plumbing school was spent just learning how to look like you're chewing a lemon whilst flicking through the plumb centre catalogue in a customers kitchen and recommending they don't put the deposit down on that cruise just yet.

 

For any plumbers reading, Chanel for Men now do a "Fags-and-Boss White" fragrance. Why not a dab a bit behind your ears before that next job

 

My wife hates boss white

And answer to your question 10 mm to 15 mm wont make a difference