Calling @pigletjohn please!

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Good evening! Just had a British Gas engineer here. Two rads will never heat up properly, unfortunately main bedroom and living room. He said the pipes that have been fitted in the house are too narrow and need refitting with wider pipes, or else the rads will always struggle to heat up and will eventually become completely blocked. Can't be flushed as too narrow.

The new pipework job would be invasive and costly. He said these plastic pipes are used in new builds but aren't good enough.

We now feel quite depressed as I don't want my walls ripped apart and I have no money anyway.

Just wondering if what he said was right??

Thank you.

Try another heating engineer, I think British gas like to spend your money!

Thanks! This is why I'm checking. A whole house needs completing re-piping??

Is it microbore? We bought a house with those pipes, most in the wall! Absolutely rubbish at heating the rads and a waste of gas/ money.
We had the whole house re fitted with proper pipe work most went under the floor boards.

Yes! Plastic ones! Probably completely irrelevant but how much did it cost??

And did it make a mess??

Thanks. No they weren't fitted as add ons but are the furthest away. BG wouldn't do the work, he told us to get an independent plumber. Just questioning if it's necessary.

No idea about the pipes but if it did need doing could the redundant old pipes just be left disconnected in the wall and the new pipes put in under the floorboards to avoid mess and disruption with replacing