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

 

[Richard at Home]

Thanks Danny for your feedback

 

[jase158]

the thing I think he is trying to do is to just change a few bits of pipe and not the whole system, he is trying to do it on the cheap and do half a job.
what he is talking about is a massive job, usually done by ripping a whole system out and putting a whole new system in (unless you are lucky and can see all pipework and all rads are seperate, not teed off each other)

I have to be honest though and can not see it working at the moment, with a bit of work and careful thought, then yes it will work, but the OP is thinking the wrong way round.

But the best option is quite clearly to get the right kit and start from scratch

 

[AlexGas]

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[AlexGas]

There are not many tasks I have not undertaken...

Jack of all trades!?

 

[AlexGas]

Have you got one of this?

 

[Richard at Home]

the thing I think he is trying to do is to just change a few bits of pipe and not the whole system, he is trying to do it on the cheap and do half a job.
what he is talking about is a massive job, usually done by ripping a whole system out and putting a whole new system in (unless you are lucky and can see all pipework and all rads are seperate, not teed off each other)

I have to be honest though and can not see it working at the moment, with a bit of work and careful thought, then yes it will work, but the OP is thinking the wrong way round.

But the best option is quite clearly to get the right kit and start from scratch

Thanks for the feedback and yes i am talking about half a job.

I am not removing any radiators or the pipe work in the walls

Just the way the rads are connected together in the loft.

I am lucky all the rads are individual pipe back to the main 22mm runs so no to hard to do

So it is not a big job from my point of view just a layout change of the main 22mm runs.

To be honest the old pipe work up the loft ( That was nothing to do with me ) is a mess and even if i cut it all out and Re pipe it all to exactly the same layout it will be 100% improvement

Remember this was heating system that had a water tank that was Horizontal due to the low roof height and was 20+ years old with an old floor standing boiler in the kitchen.

Thanks everyone for your comments

Regards

Richard

 

[AlexGas]

Keep safe, Richard!

 

[Richard at Home]

I will do Alex and thank you.

 

[TBServices]

Can't believe this thread is still going. At best you'll have a system that doesn't work, at worst you'll create a new shower area in the middle of your bedroom, or melt your poor old dears with overheating.

 

[b.lynch plum]

This is more of a pob cast of in the life of rich! he's not asking for help just saying wot he's doing right or wrong when this froum is about sharing info and asking for help! I might be wrong but your on the wrong web site you should be putting your own podcast on your own web site

 

[lame plumber]

luv to do a survey on that house for the next buyer!

 

[TBServices]

luv to do a survey on that house for the next buyer!

Sorry love but the heating doesn't conform to any kind of regs and the bodger who had the house previous has made all the radiators rot. It'll need ripping out, so ask for 10k off the asking price.

 

[Richard at Home]

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

 

[TBServices]

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

What's the relevance?

 

[Barry98]

Am sure the faults will become apparent when you do the second fix and test fella

 

[Dannyparty92]

Very nice Richard.

 

[b.lynch plum]

Pat on the back mate hope this makes you feel better lol

 

[Richard at Home]

The extention is finished and fully passed off.

 

[Richard at Home]

From the comments of not using plastic pipe work

 

[Rickster123]

Are you boxing all that plastic pipe work in?

 

[dancinplumba]

you say extention an i say extension......lets call the whole thing off. 😉

 

[lame plumber]

Hope you carried out a full pressure test on all the plastic 15mm to ensure the manufacturers warranty is applicable in the future.

 

[smtplumbing]

i love the flexy that just reaches the bath

 

[Koogatubac]

Sorry richard but that pipework is unbelievably rough!!!
That basin waste is sooo high! U wont be able to box that in!!
I wouldnt have any of that in my house.

Sorry just saying what everyone is thinking...

Least you've put a batten underneath the bath for support

 

[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 :-(