Speedfit to Radiator

[Barnman]

I want to use John Guest Speedfit in a small central heting system in an office fed off of a combintion boiler. I know JG sell a radiator outlet plate that the pipes exit through in the middle of the radiator and then connect to the valves. The normal JG PEX pipe is not that flexible to connect to a valve, and a right angle join looks unsightly. Is the way around this to use the other polybutylene pipe?

Has anybody got any photos I could use as a guide?

 

[^woody^]

Plastic fittings look horrible and yellow after a while.

Hide the plastic bits and use some copper microbore where it is seen

 

[Barnman]

Thanks

I am running 15mm to the rads so i think I will use a chrome right angle compression connected to the valve with a short piece of chrome pipe connecting the two and connect the speedfit to that - may be via a short length of chrome if I am being fussy.

The pic at http://www.johnguest.com/linkpages/SPFInstAdv.html doesn't really make this clear. Should I use the more flexible polybutylene pipe to the rads. I have used the PEX pipe in the loft area and dropped sown to the rads with T pieces.

 

[petit_pablo]

Try these, will look much tidier than what your proposing

http://www.pegler.com/taps_mixers.aspx?ID=40026&FolderID=92&button=General Information

 

[glasgowgas]

what is most commonly used by profesionals is

a 10 mm chrome spigot elbow which fits into the bottom of the trv

allowing the fitting of 10mm speedfit through the plate you described

EDIT after reading pablos link, doing it the way i suggested will look the same as pablos link but if you use a danfoss ras-c trv and 10mm chrome spigot elbow, it should cost no more than a tenner in total

 

[Nige F]

what is most commonly used by profesionals is

Proper Copper