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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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