Detecting heating pipes beneath floor boards

[ajlelectronics]

My deceased brother did that one Sunday afternoon

That sounds interesting.

 

[Dapph2]

Found the pipes OK by pulling the first board up by the radiator pipe closest to the boiler and the other radiator pipe ran parallel with the joist. One of the pipes had been leaking, not bad but enough for it to stain the pipe and wet the ground underneath.
Pain in the backside was removing the radiator. It was so tight you couldn’t undo the valves off the tail so had to resort to removing the valve from the pipe and with the valves shut lifted it off the wall brackets. I could have sworn it was still full of water it was that heavy even with two of us heaving on it, a struggle to get it outside too due the length and height of it.
Pipe work diverted, new radiator fitted and system filled and heated up with no leaks, happy days, so boards nailed back down. Floor still looks good if you ignore the hammer head dent from a miss hit by my brother but it could have been worse as he fitted a 22mm spade bit to the drill to cut the new holes for the pipes, I just noticed and managed to yell in time as he put the bit to the floor board.
Removed the new radiator again as the wall behind is a big mess, same with the skirting that had been butchered. He’s going to get the damaged skirting replaced hopefully finding a match and get the whole room redecorated too.
He’s happy now, as is his wife, as it looked much neater and warmed the room up quicker too. The scrap man will be happy too when he picks up the old radiator.

Did you put heating system anti corrosion protection fluid in the system ?
I blocked the rad in & out drained off several pints of water used a small funnel & thin tube to pour the fluid in via the air bleed housing plug .
Tightened it , opened the valve and then bled the system , did that three times on all radiators over five days to get as much air our the whole system as possible .