Getting central heating before decorating.

Norman_Castle

As above, tell the installer you want to strip the walls behind the radiators before the new ones are fitted. He can then work around what you need to do. Painting or papering behind radiators is possible but stripping paper can be difficult.

If you've got a lot of paper to strip buy a steam stripper before the plumber starts. If the paper is easy to strip you can return it if unused.

exiled_red

As getmore4less says figure out where the radiators will go, strip any wallpaper etc off and prep//paint behind them before they are installed.

Although radiators are fairly simple to disconnect and remove, it still requires a bit of messing about turning stuff off draining the radiators and water dripping on the floor, best thing to do is get the wall sorted before they are installed.

G_M

OK - so that's 7 options!

Slinky

Don't paper all the way down behind the radiators. You just need to go down a few inches so that paper is covering what's visible when standing close up. That way, when you tire of the wallpaper it'll be easy to remove and re-paper. If painting, use a long handled small roller.

Rain_Shadow

Slinky wrote: »

Don't paper all the way down behind the radiators. You just need to go down a few inches so that paper is covering what's visible when standing close up. That way, when you tire of the wallpaper it'll be easy to remove and re-paper. If painting, use a long handled small roller.

This.


I've never removed radiators to wallpaper or paint in over 35 years of decorating my own homes. It's completely unnecessary.

teddysmum

We have a mini radiator roller and a narrow brush with wire instead the usual handle. The latter is handy for painting where the roller is to rigid to reach.

trailingspouse

It's nearly summer. Have all the radiators removed, strip whatever needs to be stripped, then redecorate and replace radiators room by room. If you start with the rooms that matter most (I'm thinking living room and bedroom), then you might end up going in to next winter with a chilly spare room or hallway, but nothing that you can't cope with.