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As per the attached pic, Im planning to run two radiator pipes inside a chase that ivew made in a partition wall so that the pipe work will all be hidden once ive finished the bathroom.

The old pipe work is 10mm microbore with 15mm adapters and a short section of 15mm where the pipes came out from the old paneling.


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i was going to cut the old pipe work somewhere on the straight section along the back wall somewhere before the bend and solder in the new pipe work

Would you guys join in a new section of 10mm that could be easily bent/shaped to fit into the chase and solder on short section of 15mm near the end that will fit the rad?

or would you just cut and join in 15mm pipe all the way?

just after some opinions of the best approach for this one

Cheers
 
How big is the rad ?
 
I will always use 15mm pipe. I have to power flush heating and micro bore is to easy to clog up in my opinion.
Maybe it’s just me being old school
Some say that the smaller bore pipe properly installed on the end of a large bore circuit
22mm..2 15mm...2 10mm results in much higher liquid velocity and greater scour.
We were mucking about with pump cavitation years ago and this popped up as a side show.
Rob Foster aka centralheatking
 

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