Does anyone know where I can get hold of a tool which would clean out the dust and cobwebs which accumulate in the fins of my Stelrad radiators? It will take hours, I know, and I think they are a ridiculous design. They can't work efficiently if they get stuffed up with dirt but I haven't found a way of getting it out. Had no probs with the old fashioned straight doubled panelled rads in our previous house. What's the point of the fins anyway? They certainly don't look very nice.
tool for cleaning Stelrad finned rads
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Yes, they were invented years ago in Knotty Ash.
Who's the Doddy?
Yes, they were invented years ago in Knotty Ash.
Who's the Doddy?
I was in my local Hillier Garden centre yesterday and saw that they were selling radiator cleaning brushes! Long thin thing which will go down inside the fins.
They increase the output of the radiator. A single panel 1000mm x 600mm rad without fins produces 610W. The same rad with fins produces 1000W; a 64% increase.
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D Hailsham -
Thanks but we don't have a Hillier on the doorstep and I couldn't find a rad. brush on their website. Do you know for a fact that it would get between the fins?
Thanks but we don't have a Hillier on the doorstep and I couldn't find a rad. brush on their website. Do you know for a fact that it would get between the fins?
Whitespirit -
I'm afraid Doddy's tool is far too big for me.
I'm afraid Doddy's tool is far too big for me.
Wouldn't like to guarantee it!
If you Google "radiator cleaning brush", several come up which look as if they would do the job; including some on Ebay for a few quid.
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