Plumbing in Adjacent Rads..

[Jollybus60]

Grateful for any advice......I have two 600 x 600 rads to go into a kitchen with very restricted wall space - intending to site them only about 1 metre from each other, either side of a breakfast bar. Is it OK to treat them effectively as one unit - i.e. use one TRV on the inlet of the first, then run the return from that one straight into the inlet of the second one, and then the return from the second one as normal? I suppose the electrical equivalent is running them in series..................

 

[PhoenixServices]

Personally wouldn't do that. Should each have there own trv and pipe work.

 

[Jollybus60]

Grateful for any advice......I have two 600 x 600 rads to go into a kitchen with very restricted wall space - intending to site them only about 1 metre from each other, either side of a breakfast bar. Is it OK to treat them effectively as one unit - i.e. use one TRV on the inlet of the first, then run the return from that one straight into the inlet of the second one, and then the return from the second one as normal? I suppose the electrical equivalent is running them in series..................

OK, thanks for your help

 

[Best]

They tend to work much more slowly that way. Especially in high demand cold weather. The second (last) rad will not heat up as well & be very slow. You would have to buy 4 connection rads & link both the bottom & the top connections to each other. This brings it all similar to how a one radiator works.
Much easier & better to tee off the main pipes for each rad.

 

[Elgordo]

Would agree , better to plumb them in parallel than in series , more efficient and easier to remove one if anything goes wrong

 

[Jollybus60]

Thanks for the advice guys, will plumb them in separately.