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Money Saving Tip – Fitting Reflective Foil Behind Radiators

Some of the heat from a standard panel convector radiator, column radiator or designer radiator inevitably heats up the wall on which it is mounted. If that wall is an outside wall, much of the heat is conducted to the … Continue reading »

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Draining Down your Central Heating System (Open Vented Systems ONLY)

If you want to replace a radiator with an exciting new designer radiator or a heated towel rail, you will probably need to drain the system. Before you begin, you must switch off the boiler, disconnect it from the power … Continue reading »

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Fitting a New Radiator

If you wish to replace an old panel radiator with an exciting designer radiator or a column radiator from the BestBathrooms.com collection, it is easier if you choose one that matches the old one. In this case, you will need … Continue reading »

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Radiator Positioning

In a previous blog ‘What Size Radiator Do I Need?’ (18th January 2011), I gave some advice about how to calculate the size of radiator that a room needs to make sure it reaches the desired temperature. Basically, it comes … Continue reading »

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Column Radiators

Once upon a time column radiators were the only type of radiators available. If you think back to your days at primary school, or hospital wards dating from Victorian or Edwardian times, you will recall large radiators arranged in two … Continue reading »

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James Fits Thermostatic Radiator Valves

I recently helped my friend, James, to fit thermostatic radiator valves (TRVs) on his radiators, throughout the house. He had bought a lovely new Luxury Anthracite Wave Designer Radiator from BestBathrooms.com for his lounge.

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‘Bleeding’ Radiators

If you notice that a radiator isn’t working as well as it should, this could be down to trapped air bubbles in your central heating system and can easily be remedied by ‘bleeding’ the radiator – releasing the trapped air … Continue reading »

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Vertical Designer Radiators

A number of years ago, my dad decided to renovate a living room. Having removed the gas fire and blocked up the fireplace he realised, to his annoyance, that the space was not big enough for a conventional flat panel … Continue reading »

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