Fitting gas radiator in bathroom but having to destroy good wooden flooring ...

breadlinebetty

We have a bathroom with no radiator (though there is gas central heating everywhere else)

To have a radiator fitted in the bathroom (would really like one of the chrome upstanding ones) it would mean having our very nice wooden flooring in the hallway taken up

Any ideas on how to get round this problem? I have posted a question on a different thread about underfloor heating, but ideally would like a radiator too.

At present we have an electric chrome towel rail that is quite frankly useless, and also an electric fire specifically for bathrooms, which although is excellent heatwise it looks out of place and bulky against the wall.

Anyone out there with a solution? It seems a shame to ruin so much lovely flooring in the hallway in order to fit a radiator in the bathroom, but can't think of any other solution!:cool:

Thanks in advance!

ed110220

What sort of wooden flooring is it? If they are wooden floorboards, you should be able to take them up without damaging them too much.

If it can't be lifted, the pipes could be run through the loft perhaps. Alternatively pipes can be chased into masonry walls or put into dry walls. Obviously it's a bigger job, but it's a neater finish hiding them like that and is what my parents did in their house.

LEJC

Is it too large an area to run the pipes along the hallway at low level and box them in...lots of work I know but if you really cant face bringing up the flooring...

I hate exposed pipework...and have quite literally had a false wall fitted to cover the pipes associated with the central heating we've just had installed!

breadlinebetty

ed110220 wrote: »

What sort of wooden flooring is it? If they are wooden floorboards, you should be able to take them up without damaging them too much.

If it can't be lifted, the pipes could be run through the loft perhaps. Alternatively pipes can be chased into masonry walls or put into dry walls. Obviously it's a bigger job, but it's a neater finish hiding them like that and is what my parents did in their house.

Unfortunately they're not floorboards, but the wood flooring is expensive (it's nothing like the cheaper thin laminate) it looks like good strong wood.

We wouldn't be able to run pipes from the loft, so maybe the best solution will be to chase them into the walls.

How big a job is that, roughly?

Thanks for your help:)

Owain_Moneysaver

What's udnernearth the bathroom? Could you remove a piece of ceiling in the room below, drill for the pipes straight up in the required positions, and patch the ceiling?

ed110220

breadlinebetty wrote: »

Unfortunately they're not floorboards, but the wood flooring is expensive (it's nothing like the cheaper thin laminate) it looks like good strong wood.

We wouldn't be able to run pipes from the loft, so maybe the best solution will be to chase them into the walls.

How big a job is that, roughly?

Thanks for your help:)

It's quite a messy job that creates a lot of fine dust and obviously involves replastering and redecoration afterwards. Maybe someone else can give you a rough price as my dad did it himself.

breadlinebetty

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

What's udnernearth the bathroom? Could you remove a piece of ceiling in the room below, drill for the pipes straight up in the required positions, and patch the ceiling?

The bathroom is actually on the ground floor at the end of a hallway, but there is also a lower floor underneath the ground floor that has 3 rooms and central heating. The hallway and all the other rooms on the upper ground floor have radiators, it's just the bathroom that doesn't. I'm wondering if there was a reason why they didn't fit one in the beginning?

The central heating boiler is situated on the lower ground floor, so I'm assuming the pipes all run up to the ground floor.:cool:

LEJC

breadlinebetty wrote: »

We wouldn't be able to run pipes from the loft, so maybe the best solution will be to chase them into the walls.

How big a job is that, roughly?

Thanks for your help:)

It is a messy job and quite literally you are creating a channel in your wall in which to place the pipe in a similar fashion that an electrician would put in an electrical cable...its not particularly a difficult job but it can be a bit teadious

You would then need to get the plaster made good and skimmed over by a plasterer and then redecorate....

The other thing you will need to consider is that once the pipework is covered if there is a problem which needs investigating then its also got to be channeled out again to resolve....

My guess would possibly be that the cost of replacing your wooden floor may be less than the cost of sinking the pipework and redecorating...especially if its all jobs that you would need to get tradesmen in for.

LEJC

Whats the bathroom floor made out of....its not a solid concrete floor by any chance?

breadlinebetty

LEJC wrote: »

Whats the bathroom floor made out of....its not a solid concrete floor by any chance?

Yep, it's concrete. Is that bad news?:(

PasturesNew

I don't have heating in my bathrooms..... could you just leave the door open?