the reason why I've not ridden for a month...

[Bixxer Bob]

Is I've been installing central heating in our cottage.  Foolishly, I was tempted by the speed and simplicity of "modern" methods ie plastic piping as opposed to copper, specially as you can do really long lengths under floors with no joints.  But after days of wrestling 25 metre coils of 22mm pipe (think python crossed with a boa constrictor)  I'm NEVER using the b*&*£EW$% stuff again.  It's hard to straighten, doesn't stay straight, looks bloody aweful in place (I'll be boxing in most of it fortunately) and sags with the heat meaning more clamps needed.  

The only bits that look anywhere near good are the areas where I had to use copper eg formed bends etc. Not happy :?

[Sin_Tiger]

A man of your talents defeated by a bit of plastic pipe  :shock:

Done the four rooms that its possible to do, using the styrene type base, tricky but it's balancing the flows to the different circuits that tried my patience.

Rewarding both financially and comfort wise at the end of the day.

[NKL]

I too hate plastic pipe, always use copper if I can.

[Spud]

Ludites  :roll:   .... plastics the future don't you know. No worries about brazing simple to bend around things, self insulated. What's not to like? Oh forgot easy to clip together and no where near the cost of copper.

The copper now a days is waffer thin compared to the old pipes in the house I am refurbishing...... and I've not bloody ridden since september  :shock:  ...... hope she's happy    


cheers Spud

[Tigertriple]

Underfloor heating. A subject close to my heart as I used to sell it about 10 years ago. To install it easily you need a pipe warmer to make the pipes more pliable otherwise they are a nightmare to lay down. A bit like trying to fit cold tyres.

Also using a Isowarm type insulation board which has castleations which hold the pipes rather than just clips makes for an easy installation.

Anyway by the sounds of things the jobs done.

[Bixxer Bob]

Ludites  :roll:   .. No worries about brazing simple to bend around things..

so simple that you can split it if you areworking blind eg under the bath (DAMHIKIJFK).  Did I mention that when the 'registered engineer' was commissioning the boiler he left it in service mode while he nipped out to his van thus running the pipe temp up to 90 deg when the plastic's only rated to 65? God knows what the long term effect of that is going to be :roll: