Plumbing – How to provide heating to a room without existing plumbing

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I have a house in the Republic of Ireland which has 2 rooms without heating. One is a Kitchen and the other is planned to be a 'breakfast' room.

Terrible sketch of section of house

(all rooms are approx 5m x 3m)

As can be (hopefully) deciphered from the sketch, there is a radiator on the other side of the concrete floored hallway, a fireplace in the breakfast room, and the main house boiler on an adjoining wall.

The Kitchen floors are tiled and I would prefer not to remove/damage them so am trying to figure out how best to heat the rooms.

(Please do ask in comments if you need more/better detail on anything. I'm trying to keep the question concise)

Best Answer

Just go up. The 2 ceilings get a moderate slit for a lot of drilling & short sections of piping with a wall & ceiling corner chunk-out to drop down for the new rads.

And, if the current piping is old then tie in the existing rad to avoid any near-future failures. That piping would be parallel to the joists & you'd just need a chunk-out at the bearing wall & above the existing rad.

Tedious, but gets it done & the ceilings are the easiest to repair compared to everything else.

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