Underfloor heating Manifold with Heat exchange pump. What is it that I just bough?

[Patrick]

Hello, maybe some of the educated people on here are able to shed some light onto this purchase.

As the Foundation is progressing, I  needed a manifold for the UFH system. To have that in place before the screed goes down. So i looked on ebay , and found that loads are coming from Germany .

Thought I skip the importers and just order directly. Had a quick look on German Gumtree as well and found a cheap offer for a Manifold  including a LAING FP5000 Heat exchange pump(At least thats what it translates as), pickup only but next to mums town, so she quickly done me that favour.

 

Looks like this:

 

 

The Label says:

 

TYPE:            FP5000

Serial No.:    110110

primary:        boiler circle

max pressure: 10 bar

max. Temp : 110deg

secondary :   heating circuit

max pressure : 6 bar

max. Temp : 110deg

 

Laing was bought by Xylem and so the Laing pumps are not produced anymore

 

My technical knowledge in regards to heating system is fairly limited and I am struggling even more with translating between German/English terminology.

There  is only a German manual (http://www.bosy-online.de/Systemtrennung/Laing_Systemanbindung.pdf ). I can read it , but it s telling me nothing tbh.

The tricky bit is that I am fluent in German, but never worked anything to do with construction or anything technical at all over there. Now I do, but all i learned in the years between is the English terminology.

 

Maybe someone is able to tell me what kind of pump this is. Because it says it is a heat exchange pump with it s own separate 6kw heater , which I didnt come across yet (again, what do i know)

 

I mainly bought the item for  the manifold . The rest really was just a bonus. The seller bought it around 18years ago and never installed it (rich farmer) and now just wanted to tidy his garages . Said he paid 1000£ for it , so it might be worth installing the pump as well.

 

Any opinions on it?

 

 

Edited November 7, 2019 by Patrick
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[PeterW]

Looks like a built in low loss header