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RE: Surface mount or bury primaries for heat pump installation?
By Mars, 3 days ago |
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@tomasmcguinness bold choice on the Kronoterm. Nice! Will be very curious to see how it performs. Have heard very good things about them. | ||
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RE: Surface mount or bury primaries for heat pump installation?
By tomasmcguinness, 3 days ago |
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Current thinking is a Kronoterm Adapt. Doing the ground works myself (trench digging, base casting, that sort of thing). Then the professionals will finish the job. Presently, I'm just exploring my o... | ||
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RE: Surface mount or bury primaries for heat pump installation?
By tomasmcguinness, 3 days ago |
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@abernyte I was thinking of an SWA *in* the ducting. I'm looking at a combined water and electrical pipe (uponor or isoflow for example). | ||
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RE: Surface mount or bury primaries for heat pump installation?
By Mars, 3 days ago |
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@tomasmcguinness, because ours runs under our driveway, and I was keen to avoid going too shallow in case it ever got damaged from heavy vehicle deliveries or future resurfacing. As for guidance on in... | ||
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RE: Surface mount or bury primaries?
By Abernyte, 3 days ago |
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Broadly, the electrical cable will need to be either earthed armoured or in a duct to prevent mechanical damage. Both need to be marked with the required tape. | ||
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RE: Surface mount or bury primaries?
By tomasmcguinness, 3 days ago |
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@editor My side access already contains services, so it's not easy. I think I'm going to have to shallow bury the pipe as it will need to go over some of the existing services. There is clay pipe down... | ||
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RE: Surface mount or bury primaries?
By Mars, 3 days ago |
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Yes, ours are buried. 20m run from the heat pump to the utility room. Buried at roughly 50-60cm. I dug the trench myself with pickaxe and spade, because I knew there pipes (waste and gutter run off) u... | ||
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RE: Surface mount or bury primaries?
By tomasmcguinness, 4 days ago |
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@abernyte That is an excellent point. I hadn't considered that at all! I think I'll be burying a pipe 🙂 |
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