How to run heating pipes
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Steps
- Place the source: a boiler (), a manifold or a heating riser (). The riser and chimney are the same items as in the Plan: you can place them in either of the two tabs.
- Click Build. The medium and return pipes will run along the walls from the source to each appliance. If there is a manifold on the floor and the source is a boiler or a riser, a feed pipe goes to the manifold, and from it branches run to the appliances.
- To draw by hand, use the Medium or Return tile, like a water supply pipe.
What is important to know
- Colors: the medium pipe is dark red, the return pipe is blue.
- Clicking Build again replaces the previous automatic heating pipes rather than adding a second set; pipes drawn by hand stay. Redo removes all heating pipes on the floor, including hand-drawn ones, and builds them again. Water supply, air ducts and air conditioner routes stay in place.
- Pipes run along the walls, go into the next room through a short passage through the wall rather than through a doorway, and do not go outside the outline of the house. Air ducts run under the ceiling, so above a door they pass as if through a wall. If you delete a radiator, boiler or manifold, the automatic pipes leading to it are removed along with it.
- The pipe window shows the flow rate, velocity and pressure loss.