How much movement in Rad Pipes for Towel Rail?

Hi,

I need to replace the bathroom rad after all manner of problems with the bleed valve. The current pipe centres are 1000mm apart and the two closest Towel Rails I can find have pipe centres of 970mm, a difference of 30mm. The bathroom floor is tiled so I can’t lift the floor to adjust the pipes, so I’m stuck with pipes 1000mm apart and roughly 150mm in length from the floor to the valve. This leaves a difference of 30mm, 15mm per pipe.

Can anyone recommend how to fix the 15mm difference per pipe? I’ve searched through other posts in the forum but could not find similar posts. I would use a local plumber.

Thanks in advance

the fact that you have 150mm of pipe to play with is good . A bending spring down the pipe will allow each one to be offset without kinking . OR the rad length can be made up with extending rad valves

Thanks Nige F.

I’ve just re-measured and the length is 120 to 130mm.

The towel rad pipe centres are at the bottom of the rad, pointing to the floor, so I’ll have to replace the current angle valves with straight valves, so I can’t make up any rad length…

I’m assuming the pipes will have to be slightly bent with a S shape, to be square with towel trail pipe centres....

Bear in mind that a towel rad won't heat the bathroom anything like a panel radiator, unless you size it up accordingly to compensate (bit of research about BTU outputs might be advisable), a local plumber will quite easily be able to bend a piece of pipe to the right shape ("parallel offset") and adjust the existing tales accordingly. Whole job (including draining down and refilling) will probably take less than a couple of hours, and that's being generous.

Thanks cantaloup63.

Good advice on checking the BTU output, in the rush to replace the rad before the weather changes to chilly nights I forgot to check the output. Luckily it’s a small bathroom so a wide towel rail will have enough BTUs. Annoyingly the rad is on the hot water circuit.