Valve on pipe too low to reach rad

[sleepless_amateur]

Hi all,

I'm fitting a new rad in a room and long story short the valve on one side isn't reaching the corresponding adaptor. The rad is level according to my spirit level - one side matches up to the valve on the feed pipe fine, but for some reason the return pipe is a bit on the short side and the valve can't get to the adaptor. Pic below. There's a good 10mm difference. I can't move the brackets on the wall any further down without having to re-drill the holes.

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Is there any way of extending the pipe up a bit? It doesn't move from its current position - there's no play in it vertically.

Many thanks.

 

[petit_pablo]

Extend the Pipe or drop the rad down a bit. Your choice

 

[adlplumbing]

to elaborate on what petit said

cut the pipe lower down and then extend it to where you need it
as take the other side fits

 

[Dan Robinson]

Id love to hear the long story.

Assumptions are the mother of all fookups



Assuming one of the parts of the long story are a figment of my imagination. Remove the rad. Cut the other pipe to match your short one and rehang.

This time double check before drilling.

 

[doitall]

Perhaps the pipes dropped in the floor a tad and needs pulling back up

 

[sleepless_amateur]

to elaborate on what petit said

cut the pipe lower down and then extend it to where you need it
as take the other side fits

Thanks - just with a normal straight solder-on coupling?

Perhaps the pipes dropped in the floor a tad and needs pulling back up

See I thought that, it seems odd for the pipes to not match any more but maybe the old rad wasn't level. Anyway I did try pulling it up but like I say it doesn't budge. Thanks anyway though!