Hello, I am trying to help my grandfather install the plumbing for the heating system in a new house. (I'll include a layout diagram below... sort of to scale) He has the boiler in the basement and the radiators are all upstairs on the first floor. He would like to have three zones, one that covers the kitchen, dining room, living room and one bathroom (red) and one to cover the bedrooms (blue) and the third to cover the last bedroom, a second bathroom and a utility closet(purple). The locations of the radiators are quite spread out and I am not exactly clear on what the best way to lay the pipes out would be. His idea is to run from the out on one radiator to the in on the next making a circular pattern and out from the last radiator back to the boiler. It seems the heat would be lost quite a bit by the time it got to the last room. Is there some other, better way that the pipes should be run? Is it possible to simply use a T fitting and split a "main" and then run to all of the radiators individually and then have the radiators collect again in a return "main"? Would that make sense if it would work? I have never done any plumbing before but my grandfather has so, I'd like to really understand the situation before the project goes to far in either direction.
Here is a blank layout if someone wants to offer a different solution.
THanks for your suggestions.
Lyle D.
ldd136@psu.edu
Here is a blank layout if someone wants to offer a different solution.
THanks for your suggestions.
Lyle D.
ldd136@psu.edu