replacing radiators with smaller metric versions

ic

Assuming you're looking at these: https://www.toolstation.com/shop/Heating+%26+Insulation/d230/Radiator+Valves/sd2762/Radiator+Valve+Extension/p49119 - make sure you have one of these to tighten them up: https://www.toolstation.com/shop/p63865 - also be liberal with the ptfe tape.

timbr00

unfortunately the pipes run from the floor just to the sides of the radiators. when sizes went from imperial to metric they someone decided instead of making a radiator 1756mm they would make it 1800 or 1600.

timbr00

yes ic thats the ones.

myson make imperial ones i think its the HC range however at £211 each v £60-£85 I'm ready to accept a little playing about to get something to fit!

Cornucopia

timbr00 wrote: »

unfortunately the pipes run from the floor just to the sides of the radiators. when sizes went from imperial to metric they someone decided instead of making a radiator 1756mm they would make it 1800 or 1600.

Ah, okay, so we are talking 1756mm WIDE, not H as in post #1 - that makes sense.

EmmyLou30

We had 2 like this, one we managed to get enough play in the pipes to go up to a 50mm wider rad, the other we added an extension tail to one side of the rad and dropped down 50mm. It does look a little like a bodge and was a nightmare to get to seal too but we had no choice as the pipes pop out the wall.