Radiator on studs on top of bricks

[Ben-gee]

Am I missing something?

You have the battens where you need them, lucky!, so you don’t need corefix or any of the equivalents.
Please reread post 10.

 

[phloaw]

Am I missing something?

You have the battens where you need them, lucky!, so you don’t need corefix or any of the equivalents.
Please reread post 10.

To hit the battens I would need to place the radiator in an aesthetically sub-optimal position with respect to the window above it (i.e., not centered).

 

[Ben-gee]

I am lucky enough to have studs in correspondence of my brackets.

Ok fine, just working with what you told us in the first post

 

[phloaw]

I am lucky enough to have studs in correspondence of my brackets.

Ok fine, just working with what you told us in the first post

You're right, sorry. At that time I was still thinking of using the battens only to bear the load.

 

[JCplumb]

This is being really over-thought. Mark up an aesthetically optimal position and use 7mm holes and short lengths of copper tube as mentioned above, nothing's going to crack, the copper tube against the brick and rad brackets will do the job of holding it in place. I've got a rad about that size in my bedroom held up by 4 pigs tails, been there 15 years.

 

[Neil T]

I thought by the OPs question that the rad was standing on stud and bricks! ... seen worse in some houses
Go with above and I'll go back to my breakfast

 

[phloaw]

This is being really over-thought. Mark up an aesthetically optimal position and use 7mm holes and short lengths of copper tube as mentioned above, nothing's going to crack, the copper tube against the brick and rad brackets will do the job of holding it in place. I've got a rad about that size in my bedroom held up by 4 pigs tails, been there 15 years.

Thanks. Yes, I overthink, especially when doing something new. Better safe than sorry