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Bit of a weird one this.
Went to a customers today and among a few rads they want me to fit, they have a problem with the pipe feeding their washing machine in the garage, freezing!
its not surprising as it runs from waist height out of the kitchen wall , then in poly it runs down the wall outside, into a half hearted looking trench with some broken concrete in, and across 2 metres in the trench, back up the garage wall to about three ft (in poly!!) and then into the garage, where it supplies the washing mc.
Anyway, they want it redoing properly and I'm racking my brain thinking of the best way to do it...
I can get under the kitchen floor and drill through under ground level, and send it into the (dugout) trench, but the garage floor is concrete so it is going to have to go up the wall outside for a course of bricks or two, before it goes into the garage.
Has anyone got any bright ideas as to how to tackle it?
I can lay a 1 1/2" pipe in the trench (I know it should be 4" for main supply) and into under the kitchen floor for the pipe to run in, but I cant think how to properly protect it going into the garage.
Thinking Poly would be best? or should I use a trace heating element on copper??? It would be most embarassing if they froze on them after its done :teeth_smile:. It froze the other night so its getting cold!
cheers
Went to a customers today and among a few rads they want me to fit, they have a problem with the pipe feeding their washing machine in the garage, freezing!
its not surprising as it runs from waist height out of the kitchen wall , then in poly it runs down the wall outside, into a half hearted looking trench with some broken concrete in, and across 2 metres in the trench, back up the garage wall to about three ft (in poly!!) and then into the garage, where it supplies the washing mc.
Anyway, they want it redoing properly and I'm racking my brain thinking of the best way to do it...
I can get under the kitchen floor and drill through under ground level, and send it into the (dugout) trench, but the garage floor is concrete so it is going to have to go up the wall outside for a course of bricks or two, before it goes into the garage.
Has anyone got any bright ideas as to how to tackle it?
I can lay a 1 1/2" pipe in the trench (I know it should be 4" for main supply) and into under the kitchen floor for the pipe to run in, but I cant think how to properly protect it going into the garage.
Thinking Poly would be best? or should I use a trace heating element on copper??? It would be most embarassing if they froze on them after its done :teeth_smile:. It froze the other night so its getting cold!
cheers
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