How much to move a radiator

silvercar

in my experience its the refilling and air blocks that cause most of the problems!

stphnstevey

Is it not as simple as just bleeding the radiators then?

culpepper

If you look at the floor boards it will tell you which way the floor joists run.The floor joists are at right angles to the floorboards.That would tell you wether the pipes are running along a nice straight section or let in to the joists.
Dont see why you would need to lift the joists though. You could cut a square in each to accomodate the pipe using a saw and chisel or an electric jig-saw. You could always lag the pipes instead if it was too tricky.

Sadierhianne

Hmm draining the system and moving the rads is fairly easy - propblems come if you get an air lock, and this will pretty much depend on your system and how the pipework runs - you might get lucky when bleeding the rads but it's unlikely that this would get rid of an air lock - then again you mighyt not get an air lock - even gas engineers get air locks when moving rads and again depending on where the air is locked it can take hours to get rid of them - and then they can come back again.

I'd take a advice form a corgi registered installer - he will know what damage may or may not be caused to your boiler if you did get a lock. My dh isn't giving away too much info just now 'cause he's watching his favourite telly show - lets just say that moving rads is his least favourite job. I have known him snag rads here but it's not advisable -

From your diagram, if you have floorboards, looks like you could just lie the pipe under the floorboards if there's room under the wall.

Oh and copper pipe has gone up loads in price recently so that's no longer cheap - if you have an engineer to do it, expect to pay a lot for materials - i think it used to be about £8 a bundle but when listening to gas engineers chat it appears to have risen to about £23 a bundle.

Good luck.

S

stphnstevey

Great. Gone for not sure I can do it myself, to give it a try, now back to not sure I can do it myself

nad_

seems to be hard jon