How to install radiator foil to keep the heat in and reduce your energy bills
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- čas přidán 29. 01. 2017
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Groundwork's energy efficiency expert explains how to quickly and easily install radiator foils behind your radiators to stop the heat escaping, reducing waste, keeping you warm and cutting your fuel bill.
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What a legend you are. No beating about the bush, straight to the point and precise. With the rise in cost of living, this will definitely come in handy. Thank you so much.
Get that man a tv show ,came across super nice and honest
You definitely need to be on TV right now!! Thank you for this video; initially thought I'd have to take off all the radiators and glue it to the wall (as per instructions on the foil!) Your instructions were great - concise and to the point, and gave me the confidence to do the whole house in about an hour. Thank you so much!
Thank you for the great video, clear very easy to follow and super easy to do 👏👏
Very good. Your a natural at explaining.
Definitely going to try this thanks. 👍
If I thought it was that easy I would have done it years ago.Cheers...
You deserve a follow 💪
You are awsome. Thanks so much for this advice. I will need it this winter. An easy fix!!!!!
Glad it helped!
I did that years ago with kitchen foil and Bluetack ™️ and the results were instant and amazing. Must have saved a fortune by now.
Really? A regular kitchen foil? So I don't need to buy the radiator foil?
@@moneoo88 Yes, I used regular kitchen foil. I expect that foil made for the purpose - probably thicker - will be better.
Bluetack! After a few years it degrades and goes sort of runny, then becomes very difficult to remove I imagine impossible to remove from foil without tearing it.
@Steve_Recall Bluetack seems to lose its oil and makes grease stains when in place for a long time. I once acquired some other tack (green) which was even more oily and whatever I was hanging didn't stay in the same place. I imagine using it behind a radiator means only the edges can be stuck down, leaving air gaps and a vulnerability to tearing foil if anything fell behind the radiator. Personally I like the foam backed radiator film, it is slightly insulating, is applied with wallpaper paste, so you know you have a good seal to the wall without lumps from blue-Tack and last probably25 years before it needs replacing.
Onpoint
God bless you
I live in an apartment where the wall heater is in the hall very close to the wall across from it so that wall gets really hot I'm wondering if I use this type of reflective material would that work to reflect the heat into the Hall as opposed to into the wall?
So the sticky tape is only to be put at the top, right? That's what I was wondering about!
Thank you.
Very helpful .thank you !!😊
That's a great video. What tape do you use and where can I buy it.
How did you measure the energy wasted and the energy saved?
hi there is the same process you use and materials etc if applied to the underside of a cupboard that is built above a floor heater? the cupboard is around 6 cm above the floor heater. both measure around 150cm long, depth 20cm. thanks in advance
Excellent video. I have night storage heaters which fix directly onto the walls without a gap between wall and heater. Will your foil method work with my storage heaters????
Is there a big difference between radiator foil and kitchen tin foil?
I have something that looks like that was used under wood flooring for insulation silver one side white on the other would that work same
Will this work if i stick this on underneath a floating shelf or mantel piece above a heater? I am thinking of wall mounting a tv, however we do not have a fireplace to deflect the heat.
Much easier and effective to cut vertical slots on each end of the insulation and slide over the radiator hanging brackets.
Part of the reason I want to do this is for aesthetic reasons. Our drywall behind our radiators is completely discombobulated (cracking, cracked, entire chips have come off, brick/concrete is exposed, brittle, chalky, bubbly…basically an uneven surface. And I am not able to remove the radiators to get behind there.
Do you connect this to the wall or radiator itself? Ive seen vids of people doing both ways.
What type of double side tape dis he use?
Thanks for the video.But Where I can buy the cardboard will?
Amazon, they give it free with every purchase, or homeless people they have some, might smell a bit but doesn't affect performance
Most confusting - I am using the foam with aluminium for insulation and reflection. It needs cuts in the places where the radiator brackets attach to wall. I was looking to see what adhesive to use.. How it the radiator in video attached to the wall?
It doesnt matter wht type of brackets as long as its made to fit. Dont over think it
@@AWhileHanlin I wanted to know what adhesive to use, the brackets are not the problem. Anyway, I did the job months ago and used wallpaper paste
Will foil paper work as well?
Yes
Hi what kind of tape do use for sticking the foil to the wall?
@salulu7712 Double sided sticky tape.
Do radiators on indoor wall need reflective foil?
ie. Adjoining wall in a semi detached?
It's more important to add foil to external walls as any heat lost behind a radiator there is lost to outside the house. On internal walls it can also be useful to keep the heat in the same room as the radiator though.
Could I use any sticky tape or I would need a specific one. Thanks
Try taping your foil to some cardboard and then bring it up from behind the radiator in an arc above the radiator. If you make a decent deflector like mine and blow air at it you will see the air heat up around your room. Believe me you will get more bang for your buck that way mate!
What if I put the radiator foil in front of the radiator? Would this insulate the radiator? I am asking because I live in an overheated apartment. Thank you
I don't think it would help much as a lot of the heat would probably bounce back off the wall. Most radiators have a thermostatic valve on them that allows you to only have the radiator heat up if the temperature gets cold enough. On the other end of the radiator there is usually also a valve that lets you control how much hot water gets into the radiator in the first place so that might also be an option. So those might be other options, although I guess you've already tried that?
Erm.... try turning the thermostat down maybe?
TURN THE RADIATOR DOWN! You're welcome.
Wouldn't the heat from the radiator cause the tape to unstick from the wall?
Thanks for asking. To some extent it will depend on how good your tape is and the quality of the wall behind, but it's not something we've had happen to us yet.
Use wallpaper paste instead. Will stick like shit to a mattress.
I used double sided tape on a good wall. After two weeks the foil started coming off. I wouldn't use this. I'm either going to try wallpaper adhesive or thermal liner adhesive.
Plus the heat will curl the foil, you need to take off your radiator really and fit it properly.
you could also just use some drawing pins.
I used Blue tack TM and it's stayed in place for over ten years. Remember to buy a high quality wall though 😉
I have a Baxi Brazilia gas fire can I put a radiator cover over it ?
Yes if you want to die
Easy peazzzzz haha
Only problem is when or if wnt the foil removed the double sided tape would pull the paint off wall lol
You didn't say how to avoid the brackets holding the radiator.
He just measures between the brackets, so the area outside the brackets does not have foil. You can simply make cuts into the foil for the brackets if you want to extend it to the entire width of the radiator.
Measure between the brackets and cut the foil. Duh.
the foil is not tin it's alaminum
You are Incorrect.
It's Aluminium and informally called tin foil.
The silver side wasn’t point outwards
Yes it was. Did you watch the whole thing?
😂😂😂
Because he stick it to the wall NOT the radiator 👍🏽
The claim about foil reflecting '95% of the heat back into the room' is mis-leading.
A hot water, so called 'radiator' in fact emits very little of its heat by electromagnetic radiation, as is clear from the Stefan-Boltzmann Law, because of its low absolute temperature (around 350K). So, in fact, it reflects back 95% of very little.
The vast majority of its warming of a room is done by conduction through the metal then hot air convection, for both of which processes foil is irrelevant.
Far more important are various methods of insulation and draught exclusion.
So, are you claiming this is ineffective on radiators because of your knowledge of physics or from actually using this technique? Because since doing this the heat retention in my home has improved massively. My thermostat & boiler tells me so....Oh and the smart meter too.
I'll choose to believe those over your data. 😂
So isit worth doing? Does it heat rooms up more?
Not exactly rocket science is it ffs. 😅.....
No such thing as tin foil anymore….. there is aluminium foil however…
Get over yourself, i don't know anyone that calls it aluminium foil, everyone i know calls it tin foil, but we all know its made from aluminium. Supermsrkets call it just "foil" are they also wrong? aluminium
@@kaybeth9181 just call it foil then, as you said that’s what supermarkets call it. But it’s definitely not tinfoil. Get over yourself. 😂
@@PurpleSeahorse 🤣😂 tin foil