Moving a radiator

[leest]

Hi guys,

First post on here with maybe a dumb question, but just want an idea before I involve a plumber and get blinded with science...

I have a radiator in my en suite, I would like a heated towel rail instead, however I would like it on the opposite wall.as opposed to where it is now.

All my pipework comes through the walls as opposed to up from the floor. Now the wall I want my towel rail on, backs on to the main bathroom and there is a radiator on the other side of the wall.

So I'm guessing easiest solution is to knock a hold on the wall to access pipes, then take the new towel rail off the pipes that feed the bathroom radiator. Then cap off the old radiator at the other side of the room.

I thought this would be easier and cheaper than taking up the floor, or am I wrong?

I can make good the walls and tile so that isn't an issue.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Rickster123]

If the pipework feeding the radiators is 10mm I wouldn't just tee into another rad supply.

 

[Rickster123]

And welcome to the forum!

 

[KingDoey]

In theory should be fine. As above depends on pipe sizes

 

[Stu Davis]

It should be fine as long as the supply pipework to the radiator on the other side of the wall you are connecting to is the right size and more importantly gets hot.

 

[leest]

Thanks all.

Pipework is 10mm or at least it is coming out the walls, is it likely to be 15mm under the floor then reduced down to go up the walls?

Both the radiator I want to move and the one in the other bathroom get hot quite quick, main bathroom is possibly first one to get hot actually.

I just didn't want to get someone round and them say take the floor up if I don't need that, although at the same ttime I don't want them feeding it off the supply to the other bathroom radiator if the floor needs taking up to do a proper job!

 

[Ric2013]

Sadly, without knowing every intricacy of the pipework of your system (and some can be quite complicated, especially when they have been modified several times), it's difficult to advise from this end. But it sounds like you're thinking along the right lines - point is you need to get the plumber to decide whether the floor needs to come up or not.

Tell him or her you need it done properly and if that means the floor comes up, so be it, but if it can be done from within the wall, you'd be happy with that. See what the plumber suggests and if s/he will take responsibility for making it work - that way it will get done properly. If you tell the plumber how to do the work, you're making the job harder.

 

[plumben]

Most of the time the 10mm comes up inside the wall from the floor, and if its 10mm it'll be 10mm all the way to the landing most likely or to where ever the drops are or boiler/cylinder

But with out lifting the floors its hard to say best not to feed two radiators off one 10mm pipe