Bay Window Radiator

milesoneill

Hi all!

Just bought a 1930s house with lovely curved (5-angled) bay windows to the front. I want to put a curved/angled radiator under it, but all I can find online are companies who bend standard radiators (which is a little pricey). Are there no companies out there that manufacture angled rads to standard sizes (i.e. not custom made)?

Regards,
Miles.

ANNEGEDDES

have a look in salvage yards etc

WestonDave

Having been brought up in a 1930's semi with lovely bay windows two things spring to mind.

Firstly if you acheive what you aim to acheive it will undoubtedly look very classy.

However (my second point) bay construction always appears to me to be the flimsy point of a room which in this instance means you are probably putting your radiator not only in a part of the room that probably won't be actually sat in etc, and is under a cold window, but is also probably the least well insulating part of the wall. In other words all your heat is going to go through the wall, against the windows etc and very little of it will get across the room to where people actually sit.

If that's not an issue for you then fair enough but I wonder how many bays are "standard" sizes given that in the 1930's houses were more individually designed.

milesoneill

Thanks guys.

I'm having the existing windows removed and fitted with double glazing. The existing radiator is along the wall opposite the fireplace (exactly where our sofa needs to be) so there is effectively little heat coming from it at the moment. I see what you're saying about standard sizes, it probably is wishful thinking! But I am still hopeful!

ormus

http://www.radiatorfactory.net/

http://www.asaluk.com/Bay_window_radiators.html

just a few ive heard of. the company where i bought my last one is longer in business, (bolton).

cazziebo

The other thing to think about is if you are having floor length curtains the radiators will be covered. wish I'd thought about that before I got my radiators installed at the windows!

ccygirl

Radiators are traditionally installed under windows as the cold air falls into them is heated and rises out into the room. I have bays and have single curved radiators under them. Unfortunately they were already here so i don't know where to get them. I would say that they don't follow the curve very well and one is very tight to the wall and the other is tight one end and quite far away from the other.

darrylg_2

Have a look here.

Curved Radiators

I got a couple from them a few years ago. Fitted perfectly.

Very friendly and helpful.

Regards,

Darryl

EdInvestor

ccygirl wrote: »

Radiators are traditionally installed under windows...

I doubt this is a very ancient tradition I've lived in a few period properties converted when CH was in its comparative infancy and in all cases the rads were installed against internal walls, and often quite a long way from windows.

One suspects a key factor might have been saving on long pipe runs. But although you do tend to get a "cold end" to a room with this arrangement, on the other hand you don't lose heat through exterior walls and fuel bills tend to be lower. Personally I've never had a condensation problem with systems like this, either.

maninthestreet

Radiators should be installed under windows. In this way, the cold air from the window is heated by the radiator, preventing cold draughts from the window being drawn across the room. Placing a radiator on the opposite wall to the window will cause cold air from the window to be drawn across the room, as a result of convection currents created by the radiator.

EdInvestor

maninthestreet wrote: »

Radiators should be installed under windows. In this way, the cold air from the window is heated by the radiator, preventing cold draughts from the window being drawn across the room.

I forgot to mention the other aspect of the system, which is the heavy lined curtains which you use to cover the windows which stop draughts from being drawn across the room.