Zombie thread resurrection to save setting up a new one.
We had a wall knocked out between kitchen and garage conversion. On that wall was a small radiator. The tails were hanging for ages, waiting for a plumber that never turned up over a period of a month. Further down the wall, I'd hung the new radiator, waiting for the plumber.
So I thought I'd have a go. Created new tails, bent and passing along the wall to the new valves, fitted like for like to match the old tails e.g. lockshield on new piping continued from old tails that had lockshield on, same for thermostatic valve tail.
Everything's on, other radiators are piping hot and only the lockshield valve piping is warm,not the thermostatic valve piping.
It's a new fancy designer radiator, so presuming it only works one way (I followed the flow directions) and the original housebuilding plumber plumbed the valves in backwards. I have bled the radiator for air, so it is full.
Before I go cutting a gap in the 2 pipes and criss-cross the cut ends with couplers to switch flow (on the assumption that the old radiator valves were on backwards and it didn't matter on that radiator), has anyone got anything else for me to try?
Lock valve is open, thermostatic valve is fully open. Radiator is bled.
We had a wall knocked out between kitchen and garage conversion. On that wall was a small radiator. The tails were hanging for ages, waiting for a plumber that never turned up over a period of a month. Further down the wall, I'd hung the new radiator, waiting for the plumber.
So I thought I'd have a go. Created new tails, bent and passing along the wall to the new valves, fitted like for like to match the old tails e.g. lockshield on new piping continued from old tails that had lockshield on, same for thermostatic valve tail.
Everything's on, other radiators are piping hot and only the lockshield valve piping is warm,not the thermostatic valve piping.
It's a new fancy designer radiator, so presuming it only works one way (I followed the flow directions) and the original housebuilding plumber plumbed the valves in backwards. I have bled the radiator for air, so it is full.
Before I go cutting a gap in the 2 pipes and criss-cross the cut ends with couplers to switch flow (on the assumption that the old radiator valves were on backwards and it didn't matter on that radiator), has anyone got anything else for me to try?
Lock valve is open, thermostatic valve is fully open. Radiator is bled.
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