How to remove a central heating radiator and cap off pipes
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2020
- Central heating radiators often need removing. Al shows how to do it.
If you would like a video on removing and replacing the radiator for decorating behind, that does not involve draining down, then go to this video.
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I'd love to spend a day with you learning the knowledge you know. Really learned alot from you over the years. Well explained too. Worth your weight in gold. 👍
I appreciate that! Thanks John.
You are an absolute legend. I've learnt so much from your videos and just wanted to say a big thank you!
I appreciate that! Thanks Matthew.
Cheers Al ! proper old school teaching the best way , thank you
You are very welcome
Bravo Al,first class tutorial,as always Sir,easy to take on board the advice given,and your delivery is professionally delivered.We are so lucky in this day and age,to be able to tap into your wealth of expertise and knowledge,best wishes to your good self and the lovely Jan.I know this is sad,but you've made an old fireman very happy,I love this practical stuff,long may it continue.
You are very welcome, thanks for your very kind comments.
Thanks mate. Your calm demeanour and thorough approach really helped me successfully complete my job! All the best 👍
Great to hear!
What a fantastic teacher you are. A real gent.
Thanks.
Great video Alan 👍, looking forward to seeing the next one, when you refit the new single panel radiator.🔥🌟
You and me both! Have to wait for my extension to be built first.
Cheers Al very clear vid and excellent work by the camera crew lol I will need to do this job soon so fingers crossed 🤞
Fingers crossed!
Another great video, with plenty of good information
Glad you enjoyed it
Many thanks for these videos. Very informative.
Glad you like them!
Another great video from you.
Glad you enjoyed it
Great Video Al. Very informative for dunces like me. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it
thank you, i was stuck and your knowledge helped me
No problem Alex.
Massively helpful and greatly appreciated thank you
No problem.
Bravo Al,this is another superb tutorial,really well done Sir,the advice is easy to take on board ,and your delivery is,as always without fault.We are very lucky to be able to share your knowledge and expertise,thank you very much.Sad,I know,but you've made an old fireman very happy......I love this stuff.
Glad you enjoyed it
Hi Great videos keep it going great stuff thanks
Thanks, will do!
Thankyou for the tips very helpful .
Glad it was helpful!
Hi AL nice one stay safe mate
Thanks, you too!
Thanks Al just about to permanently remove rad and cut pipes. 😃
Glad to help
Nice. I really need to do this to flush out the rads before winter
Go for it! Best done sooner rather than later.
Done ours at the start of the summer and the amount of sludge was amazing to see. Rads were so much better. Inhibitor in ready for the colder days.
Thank you, very helpful.
No problem.
Great video Al 👍 are they steel toe cap slippers you are wearing 😂😁 see Jan hasn't been cleaning under the rads again 😬 take care 👍
Well spotted PB. Just luv my Steel cap slippers ha ha.
Hi Al, have you a vid explaining the unvented hot water cylinders and such like the Kingspan ones? Thanks for your vids as always.
Not yet. Have to wait for a job to come along.
Thank you kind sir
You're welcome
Hi AL i watched the vid on draining the rad took it off the wall also but i was wondering if i can cut my pipe down the TRV side and cap it off the same as you have and leave it like that for good BRILL vids mate
Yes you can.
Hey Al. Just took one of my small rads off for a bit of decorating. I wound on a couple of turns of PTFE tape on the valve thread but had to tightened the valve \ rad union mega tight to stop weeping. I couldnt get any PTFE tape onto the thread on the rad side because of the big nut. What's the secret here?
You wont get any on there the secret is stuff every one hates, Boss white.
Thank you for another good video, just a question please if you remove 1 radiator and cap it off could that affect any other radiator that not getting hot?like due to water not circulating as 2 pipe is been capped off?, thanks
Not at all
@@dereton33 Thank you
Thank you very much for this video. Can someone tell me please when you drain down the system to remove a radiator on a combi boiler will the boiler still fire up to make hot water for the taps, or does that all not work. I have two radiators to sort out and it’ll probably take me a while, just wondering what happens. Or is there a video explaining this?
The domestic water is heated by converting the water in the central heating circuit. So there needs to be water in the central heating circuit in order to heat domestic water! So, NO I can't heat water when you have drained the rads.
There is one way around it though, You can use it with care if you pressurise the boiler to 1.5 bar as usual and then isolate the boiler from the heating circuit on the valves under the boiler.
If they dont leak and the boiler is pressurised you can then use hot water.
Boilers sometimes dont like being used in this way as they cannot dissipate so much waste heat but its likely to be Ok but just watch it the first few times you use it in this way.
@@dereton33 Thank you very much for your reply.
Hi Al, great vid as always. Just one question though please. Wouldn't I have to join the pipes left to 'complete' the system so that the rads that are left get hot? Thanks in advance
No, so long as the pipes are capped off, that had the rad valves on.
@@dereton33 thanks Al 😊
Sir please open a plumbing DIY school your very good excellent Thank You
Would love to but just don`t have the time.
Hi Al, just a quick question. Can i use a 15mm spring pipe bender to bend pipes about 10mm outwards so i can attach my valves onto rad tails. The valve pipes are embeded in a concrete floor. Or am i best getting a plumber to adjust them?.
Thanks Barry
Yes, absolutely
Thanks Al, was just apprehensive as not sure if the pipes are partialy in the concrete then run behind the skirting board but will give it a try. 🤞
Hello sir, what type of boiler system would you recommend, I have heard gas systems will be out to pasture soon and we should go electric.?
That`s just a rumour gas is still best. Electric costs a fortune to run. Log burners are messy and most city's do not allow them now.
@@dereton33
I does make you worry just what they plan to replace gas boilers and cookers with. As you say, electricity is very expensive.
@@dereton33 unfortunate answer from someone making his living from gas boilers, vested interest etc.
I've removed a radiator and now need to cap the copper pipe in the concrete floor. Copper compression blanks, plastic push fit or soldered blanks? Thanks.
The plastic push fit are the easiest way.
If I no longer use the radiator, can I just turn of the valves, disconnect and remove the radiator. The valves are on flexi pipe so could just be tucked back in the wall. That way I would not have to drain the entire system. Or must the system be drained and then the valves be removed and the piping capped before tucking away.?
Yes that will be fine. Those valves should not have been connected to flexis though.
👍thanks
No problem 👍
So.. If I was just decorating behind radiator could I just shut off the valves and remove rad then refit after paint?
Yes.
Hi mate I have add my radiator is turned off in one room for over a year will I still need to drain them at all as I have not been active whatsoever I am trying to make room for a bigger bed well where my radiator was my chest of drawers around
Yes still drain them.
@@dereton33 thanks very much stay safe
How can you identify where your drain valve is if you don't know? House built in 1998, could it just be under the kitchen sink where the water mains comes in, or likely to be somewhere else?
It will be somewhere else, do check outside the house seems mad but some are there.
@@dereton33 thankyou! looks like its time to rummage under some shrubbery 😆
I'm about tot take the radiator in my hall off the wall, to decorate. I turned the valves off on either side. Then undid the nuts and drained it. When I topped up the boiler afterwards water came out the pipes on either side of the radiator. Why?
Either not tight enough or no sealing compound or PTFE tape used.
@@dereton33 Thanks, mate, but it wasn't just drips, I had a flood on my hands :o). I thought sealing compound and tape was for small leaks (?). As for the valves; I tightened them until they couldn't be tightened much more (?). It is ok to top up the boiler when you have one radiator off, generally, yeah?
Hello - I have a single pipe system. How do I remove and blank off a radiator from a single pipe system?
Same as shown on this video.
Hi Al
Slightly off topic but how do i replace the blanking nut thing on a radiator mines leaking !!! Do i just turn the rad off and replace or do i need drain stuff down
Cheers mate
Hi Eric, just shut off the rad valves either end, no need to drain down.
@@dereton33
Great thanks mate
@@dereton33
Hi al changed the blank on my Rad dry as a bone now thanks again mate your a top man an love your down to earth vids 👍
My combi has a triple x inhibitor and says do not drain how do I get round that to remove a radiator and cap off permanently .. Thanks
You will have to drain. Just top up more inhibitor when the job is finished.
Hate to ask such a stupid question but I have to know, where are you guys from? Hard to place the accent but it's definitely somewhere in the UK haha I love it though
We were originally from Gravesend in Kent, (hence the accent) but now living down in Devon.
Wouldn't this cause Legionella?
No.
@@dereton33 why not? Wouldnt be stagnant?
@@dereton33 why not? Wouldnt be stagnant?
Hi Al, don't be offended, you are talking a bit too fast this time. I find it hard to catch up with your speech. No hard feelings.
That`s ok, I will have a word with myself next time. Ha ha.
Bravo Al,first class tutorial,as always Sir,easy to take on board the advice given,and your delivery is professionally delivered.We are so lucky in this day and age,to be able to tap into your wealth of expertise and knowledge,best wishes to your good self and the lovely Jan.I know this is sad,but you've made an old fireman very happy,I love this practical stuff,long may it continue.
You are very welcome