Some advice....

[jnewman123]

We have been in our house about a year now and after some initial DIY we (I) managed to put a nail through one of the central heating pipes in the wall. This was duly fixed and re-plastered.

However it did get me thinking where the pipes are actually located. I do have a pipe detector but that seems next to useless. I have a two bedroom terrace house. It's a sealed system off a combi boiler. The first radiator is in the hallway about a meter from the boiler. The pipes then travel up above this to somewhere upstairs. Upstairs there are a radiator in the bathroom, spare bedroom and master bedroom. In the living room which is roughly underneath the bathroom and part of the bedroom is the other radiator.

Is there likely to be another location where the CH pipes are chased in to the wall and come down from the upstairs or just the one location in the hallway?

Any ideas? I appreciate that all systems are different.

 

[GavThePlumber]

They can be anywhere

 

[dhutch]

If the pipes go up into the ground floor ceiling, and there are further radiators down stairs, I would expect thay would come down to them somewhere, yes. As Gav says, can be just about anywhere. But logically, assuming radiators have not been moved, or moved far, you can work out a most likely rough locations.....


Daniel

 

[Agile]

Most metal detectors should locate them.

Good practice is to only run them in walls horizontally or vertically.

But many installers are lazy and use the shortest route!

Tony

 

[gigz]

If they're plastered over brick/blockwork turn the heating on and feel the wall as the pipes warm up. As said they should run in the corners. You can also do this if its a cavity wall but not as precisely.