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DoItLikeHomer
Hi everyone, this is my first post and I'm in a bit of a pickle. We got our bathroom done a few months ago, tiled floor, re-boarded walls and tiled walls etc.
Anyway, I was quoted £150 to take the towell heater radiator off, and then put it back on once the job was done. I'm no DIY afficionado by any means but I've replaced our bath and sink taps and fixed some dodgy pipework in the kitchen and thought to save myself a few quid it'd be no trouble to sort the radiator myself. The guys who did the bathroom were fine with this and offered to put the radiator brackets back on when they'd re-boarded and tiled the walls.
My problem emerged a couple of weeks ago when I tried to put the radiator back on - the plumber has moved the pipes about 4cm away from the wall and re-boarded the floor, then tiled the floor. I went back to him and he tried to blame the tiler then refused to accept responsibility for it. He offered to do the work for £80 and when I was sure he had no intention of sorting out his own mess I told him I'd sort it myself. I know now I should have tried to put the radiator on as soon as they'd done the brackets, but I was naive and expected it would all fit ok.
Anyway, all I have now is my useless plumbers advice - a text telling me to use a swept soldered elbow - and this post to see if I can find the best solution.
Now for the technical bit that I'll probably struggle with. If anything sounds unclear let me know, I've done my best to describe piping but I'm not 100% sure I'm right:
The pipe comes out of the floor 38mm from the wall. There's loads of vertical give in the pipe but nothing horizontal/lateral. I've scraped into the tile at the back of the pipe and the boards that were tiled onto had holes drilled into to fit the pipe through. Potentially I could remove part of the tile and saw through the floor boards and move the pipe toward to wall manually but it could be messy and I might break tiles which would be a nightmare. More measurements:
The pipe from the floor is connected by a male to male elbow. A Female to female joining pipe is connected to this pipe, running parallel with the floor. Another male to male elbow pipe connects this to the towel radiator valve. The valve then connects vertically to the bottom of the radiator.
I've attached a couple of pics that show the piping, hopefully they'll show the problem better than my explanation! Anyway, ultimately I need to get the valve part of the pipe from 10cm from the wall to 6cm from the wall in order to allow me to connect my radiator up.
Any advice would be gratefully received, I'd rather not do soldering or bending if I don't have to, and if it's a proper plumbers job I'll get someone in to do it. But if I can have a go myself I will.
Anyway, I was quoted £150 to take the towell heater radiator off, and then put it back on once the job was done. I'm no DIY afficionado by any means but I've replaced our bath and sink taps and fixed some dodgy pipework in the kitchen and thought to save myself a few quid it'd be no trouble to sort the radiator myself. The guys who did the bathroom were fine with this and offered to put the radiator brackets back on when they'd re-boarded and tiled the walls.
My problem emerged a couple of weeks ago when I tried to put the radiator back on - the plumber has moved the pipes about 4cm away from the wall and re-boarded the floor, then tiled the floor. I went back to him and he tried to blame the tiler then refused to accept responsibility for it. He offered to do the work for £80 and when I was sure he had no intention of sorting out his own mess I told him I'd sort it myself. I know now I should have tried to put the radiator on as soon as they'd done the brackets, but I was naive and expected it would all fit ok.
Anyway, all I have now is my useless plumbers advice - a text telling me to use a swept soldered elbow - and this post to see if I can find the best solution.
Now for the technical bit that I'll probably struggle with. If anything sounds unclear let me know, I've done my best to describe piping but I'm not 100% sure I'm right:
The pipe comes out of the floor 38mm from the wall. There's loads of vertical give in the pipe but nothing horizontal/lateral. I've scraped into the tile at the back of the pipe and the boards that were tiled onto had holes drilled into to fit the pipe through. Potentially I could remove part of the tile and saw through the floor boards and move the pipe toward to wall manually but it could be messy and I might break tiles which would be a nightmare. More measurements:
The pipe from the floor is connected by a male to male elbow. A Female to female joining pipe is connected to this pipe, running parallel with the floor. Another male to male elbow pipe connects this to the towel radiator valve. The valve then connects vertically to the bottom of the radiator.
I've attached a couple of pics that show the piping, hopefully they'll show the problem better than my explanation! Anyway, ultimately I need to get the valve part of the pipe from 10cm from the wall to 6cm from the wall in order to allow me to connect my radiator up.
Any advice would be gratefully received, I'd rather not do soldering or bending if I don't have to, and if it's a proper plumbers job I'll get someone in to do it. But if I can have a go myself I will.