I need to get a feed to a radiator in my hallway and am looking into the best way to conceal the pipework for it.
I'm not a fan of boxing it in if possible, and am looking either recessing the pipework in the floor or wall - I'm undertaking substantial renovations currently so the mess isn't an issue.
The floor is concrete and the wall is a brick party wall so they both have issued associated. My thoughts currently are to bury a length of conduit in either (for mechanical protection and to overcome the issue of expansion) and run plastic pipe through this, connecting to copper where it is visible, i.e. from the wall to the rad.
Pros of doing it in the wall - less chance of physical impact damaging the plaster compared to the floor
Cons - I imagine I would have to take a fair chunk out of the wall to get a larger pipe buried with enough depth for the plaster not to crack & it would be a longer run - ~2.5m compared to 1.5 in the floor
Pros for floor - less impact in terms of digging a reasonable depth, shorter run, imagine it would be easier to do
Cons - more foot traffic over the channel which i'm concerned would cause it to crack (although it would be covered in carpet so cracking alone is not necessarily an issue...)
Has anyone done anything like this and how did they do it?
Also, what's the best way to convert from plastic to copper for the final connection - I believe that it can be done with standard speedfit couplers but I don't want the fixing to be on show - any ideas?
I'm not a fan of boxing it in if possible, and am looking either recessing the pipework in the floor or wall - I'm undertaking substantial renovations currently so the mess isn't an issue.
The floor is concrete and the wall is a brick party wall so they both have issued associated. My thoughts currently are to bury a length of conduit in either (for mechanical protection and to overcome the issue of expansion) and run plastic pipe through this, connecting to copper where it is visible, i.e. from the wall to the rad.
Pros of doing it in the wall - less chance of physical impact damaging the plaster compared to the floor
Cons - I imagine I would have to take a fair chunk out of the wall to get a larger pipe buried with enough depth for the plaster not to crack & it would be a longer run - ~2.5m compared to 1.5 in the floor
Pros for floor - less impact in terms of digging a reasonable depth, shorter run, imagine it would be easier to do
Cons - more foot traffic over the channel which i'm concerned would cause it to crack (although it would be covered in carpet so cracking alone is not necessarily an issue...)
Has anyone done anything like this and how did they do it?
Also, what's the best way to convert from plastic to copper for the final connection - I believe that it can be done with standard speedfit couplers but I don't want the fixing to be on show - any ideas?
