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WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO KEEP YOUR RADIATORS CLEAN? Did you know that by keeping your radiator clean and free from dust and dirt it can actually help to keep your heating costs down. Dust in between the fins of a convector radiator can prevent heat from escaping, which will mean your radiators have to work harder to heat up your rooms in your home.  See Blog – The Importance of Maintaining your Heating System It is also advisable when cleaning your radiators, to consider behind the radiator, this is the one place we all tend to ignore, indeed we...

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Any home water based central heating system can be complicated and something that most people do not want to mess with when it comes to removing the radiator from the wall for decorating! But one day you may find yourself in a position where you would have to remove a radiator and the most common reason for this is when you need to get behind the radiator for painting and wallpapering.    You may be thinking that this is not a job for you and in most cases, you will need to call upon a professional to remove and refit...

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Wallpaper is glued to your wall with an adhesive that over time and in especially humid and dry conditions this can weaken and cause the wallpaper to peel away from the wall. This can make your rooms feel like they have been neglected if just left. If you don’t want to replace the wallpaper, you can try to fix the peeling parts. But there is also one place that we never even think about! Yes – the wall behind the radiator, which is one of the most common and first places where the wallpaper will start peeling away due to...

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Any Central heating system is complicated and something that most people don’t want to have to interfere with! However, at some point, you may find yourself in a situation where you have to remove a radiator, and the most common reason for this is when you come to decorate!     If removing a radiator turns out to be not the task for you, you can always rely on a local plumber to do the job for you, but this can become quite expensive when removing it and then having to refit it back onto the wall. Complication Of Removing...

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For those of us that choose to decorate our own homes, will be the time to realise that when coming to decorating behind the back of the radiator, this can be one of those tasks that is not a simple job! In most cases if you are decorating, you may want to remove the radiator to decorate behind it if you require that professional finish.  This could mean having to call out your local plumber, which could incur costs or by Doing It Yourself which could result in unforeseen problems if you are not used to taking a radiator off...

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