changing towel rad to different pipe centre one, need advice

happyhero

Hi my wife wants me to change our bathroom rad as it is a bit old and battered looking, it is 500mm wide and the one she has got to replace it is 450mm wide with 405mm pipe centres. The pipes are coming out of the floor and have check valves on them. The bottom of the current rad is about 200mm off the ground.

What would you do about the centers as it will involve 2 "s" bent pipes if we keep central and I'm not sure if i will be skillful enough to make these 2 pipes?

I was thinking to place one pipe so it stays straight and make a bigger bend on the other one.

I normally like to use those pipe sleeves to make the pipe look better but that's obviously not going to work with bent pipes. I didn't really want to see the copper under a chrome rad. I was even wondering if I could use two short flexi hoses, at least that looks closer to the chrome colour and would save me trying to make bends but I don't know if they are ok for central heating temperatures and maybe that would actually look terrible, what do you recommend?

What about chrome covered copper can you use that as if it was ordinary copper, i.e. bend it and use same olives as copper etc?

Ruski

use chrome pipe and chrome compression fittings - bending chrome plated pipe is not recommended as the chrome can split and will tarnish.

HTH

Russ

southcoastrgi

no flexi's aren't suitable for heating

Jonesya

Have you looked at radiator tail extenders / extensions?

They're for exactly this sort of problem.

Hintza

Take it back and switch it.