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1 . The hot water calorifier in the basement .
2 . Extremely high pressures are required to pump the hot water through the entire building .
3 . The various pipes intersecting .
4 . The steam pipes feeding into the system .
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Almost six bar pressure is needed to achieve this , which meant that the entire system had to be built to cope with this — from the pipes to the fittings to the valves .
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