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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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If you are planning on doing some decorating throughout your home, chances are that if you want a professional finish then you will need to also remove the radiator. See Blog – How To Drop A Radiator for Decorating Even when it comes to a thorough cleaning of your home the one thing that we never even consider is all those years of unnoticed dust that has accumulated behind our radiators! Dust behind radiators is a hidden place often missed during normal cleaning.  Significant dust collects behinds the radiator, which can then be distributed around the room by the airflow...

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Installing a new radiator, yourself isn’t impossible, just like installing the Rotarad conversion kits. It is recommended to hire a professional heating engineer or plumber who is more likely to get the job done to the highest quality and in half the time. Fitting a radiator can still be time-consuming and can become a messy job if you don’t know what you are doing! Not only do you have to install the new radiator, but you have to go through the process of draining down the entire heating system in some cases! It’s not a job everyone’s comfortable with, and...

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Removing a radiator can be a difficult task if you don’t know how to remove it or can be quite costly if you need to call out your local plumber to remove and then to replace it! If the radiator is a large one you may need two people to lift the radiator from its brackets. You may find it necessary to remove a radiator from the wall, perhaps to re-plaster behind it, or to paper behind it and for a deep clean. Painting Behind Radiators Removal of the radiator is necessary when painting behind the wall as you can...

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