radiator height

3 years ago

We have a few leaks from our plumbing and need to replace all of our radiator valves. This gives us the opportunity to alter heights etc. we live in a period property with 180mm height edwardian skirtings and have the Acova column style radiators with pipes from below. We have justnpurchased some period valves. Normally I would have thought the radiators should be hung above the skirtings, will this look weird as the pipes will be very long? Architecturally is there a standard approach? a couple of the radiators are the 4 column thick low rise 300mm radiators, team worried if these in particular will look weird raised up....

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TiN o
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3 years ago
here is a photo of an existing radiator, and a photo of one of the shorter radiators where skirting will be installed
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Eulinea Ltd
3 years ago
180mm skirtings are a reasonable height and your radiators will not look out of place if raised, and there is no standard approach as far as I am aware. Your 300mm rads will look OK, but of course it would better if you could make the connections coming out of walls, not floors...
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TiN o
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3 years ago
thanks Eulinea, appreciate the feedback!
TiN o
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3 years ago
we are going to try and jazz them up with black nickel shrouds and valves

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