The rad that had my pants down.

[Groovejet]

Fitting a 1800 tall decrotive rad & it didnt have stickers on it to show the Fmow return back front and qll that crap.
So i fitted it & guess what? Yep...No flow, no heat ,just a crap fest.
So i had to remove rad & just my look , a new solid wood floor was fitted & Custard was watching my every move. So i dribbled the c/h water into a paint tray , which took forever.
Filled back up & still had flow issues.
Turns out the pioe work in the new build is terrible. 10mm pipe to rads id tee'd off to another rad. So i had to turn all rads off & back on 1 turn , just to get some bloody heat through my new rad.
Talk about getting screwed over.

 

[gas112]

Fitting a 1800 tall decrotive rad & it didnt have stickers on it to show the Fmow return back front and qll that crap.
So i fitted it & guess what? Yep...No flow, no heat ,just a crap fest.
So i had to remove rad & just my look , a new solid wood floor was fitted & Custard was watching my every move. So i dribbled the c/h water into a paint tray , which took forever.
Filled back up & still had flow issues.
Turns out the pioe work in the new build is terrible. 10mm pipe to rads id tee'd off to another rad. So i had to turn all rads off & back on 1 turn , just to get some bloody heat through my new rad.
Talk about getting screwed over.

so you teed into 10mm supply to another rad hell mend you , do it right in first place and take supply right back to manifold or before it if no spare in manifold

 

[Madrab]

yep +1 ... was never going to work if you tee'd off of 10mm for a rad that large, caused your own problem there.

Had that one time, fitted a 1600 tall ally rad, was in original 10mm off of 22mm so was ok with a bit of balancing, along comes the bathroom fitter and cuts into the 10mm for that rad with a new 10mm feed for a 1800 tall towel rad (because it was the closest ...doh!) ... screwed it all up ... Newly tiled floor had to be lifted and new feed run at his expense.

 

[jeff the gasman]

And you charge people for your professional installations?
God help them!
I wonder why they make different sized pipes?
Are you sure it’s not a faulty radiator?

 

[Groovejet]

Sorry fella’s, I have to clear this mess up ffs. There’s a ‘Typo Error’ in my post.
Referring to the 10mm pipe T off, this was already done , prior to my rad install. The customer mentioned the problems he’s had because of the poor pipework.
So sorry guys...IT WASNT ME
I connected my rad from 15 mm pipework in ceiling, direct from the boiler. But what I referred to was , some of the rads in the house were Tee’d off from 10mm pipework , which made my install difficult , when it came to balancing etc

 

[Groovejet]

And you charge people for your professional installations?
God help them!
I wonder why they make different sized pipes?
Are you sure it’s not a faulty radiator?

Thanks Jeff, This wasn’t supppsed to hit a nerve Predictive txt once again changing my bloody words

 

[jeff the gasman]

Sorry fella’s, I have to clear this mess up ffs. There’s a ‘Typo Error’ in my post.
Referring to the 10mm pipe T off, this was already done , prior to my rad install. The customer mentioned the problems he’s had because of the poor pipework.
So sorry guys...IT WASNT ME
I connected my rad from 15 mm pipework in ceiling, direct from the boiler. But what I referred to was , some of the rads in the house were Tee’d off from 10mm pipework , which made my install difficult , when it came to balancing etc

That’s much better! X

 

[Madrab]

 

[Wilson78]

safe