Bay window radiator hanging help!

MNM2903

Hi,
We have recently moved in to our new home and there's alot of work needs doing, I was wondering if anyone could give any advice on how to correctly line up the brackets on a wall for a curved radiator to go in to a bay window.

It was there but removed it to be boarded and skimmed, now the plasters drying out and I didn't do the sensible thing of leaving a few screws in I need to know the best way to line the brackets up to correctly hang the radiator.

Any help would be much appreciated. 

FreeBear

Offer the radiator up to the wall and use some spacers the same depth as the mounting brackets. With the aid of a spirit level, peer down the gap and put some pencil marks on the wall where the lugs are. Remove the radiator, mark the height you want to hang the radiator at, and then fix the brackets at the appropriate point. You may need a couple of attempts at this, so use some small screws temporarily. Once the brackets are correctly located, use some sturdy fixings.

If you do this again in another room, drop a line to the floor and put a big mark on the floorboards and make a note of how high the screw holes are.

tacpot12

I’m not a plumber so I don’t know if there is a better way to do this, but for what it’s worth, here’s what I would do:

I’d find the centre of the bay and mark a vertical line. If the radiator had a central bracket, it will go on this line. The other brackets should be distributed equally either side of the centreline. To find how far out to set the brackets from the centre line, measure across the back of the radiator with a dressmakers tape, from the centre line of the radiator to the bracket position, and then use this measurement to position the bracket away from the vertical line that marks the centre of the bay. This is not perfect because the radius of the bay and radius of the radiator are slightly different, but most brackets will have enough tolerance for this not to matter. 

To get the height of the brackets, I’d temporarily fit two brackets to the back of the radiator so that the were in their correct position then draw a pencil line across the back of the radiator level with the bottom of the brackets and extend this line to the edges of the radiator. You can then measure down to when the pipes will go. This gives you a measurement you can use to set the bottom of the brackets above the pipes that are presumably in the correct place. It the pipes have dropped after being disconnected, pull them up gently until they are vertical and measure up from that position.

Not an easy process. Sorry