Towel Rad Fitting Problem

[diy_monkey]

That makes perfect sense thank you, and thank you everyone else for your help. I’ll consider my options and go from there.

If anyone else has any radically different ideas, please feel free to chip in.

Thanks again.

 

[john.bell55]

You could centralise the pipes, and reduce it to 10mm plastic. The radiator would hide most of the pipework

 

[dontknowitall]

If it's your first soldering and you're going to try it, I'd buy Yorkshire (pre-soldered) fittings as they're much easier. Then again you could buy a few fittings (they're about 30p each) and try your hand at soldering on a workbench for practice.

Also, look on youtube as I'm sure there's a tutorial on soldering!

 

[wheeto]

You could centralise the pipes, and reduce it to 10mm plastic. The radiator would hide most of the pipework

I can't help thinking that the pipes, along with a huge reducing coupler, will look pants behind a nice new towel rail.

 

[HoodedClaw]

just out of interest but have you tried asking your local independent plumber? If you do all the bits you can yourself (hang rad, drain system) and ask plumber to just bend and join up - it wouldn't take an hour of labour.. not much at all.

 

[GPSNewcastle]

I was thinking that. If you drain the system, get the pipes dry, hand the rad and then ask the plumber to connect the pipes and fill it up it may well be cheaper and would save you the hassle.

 

[john.bell55]

I can't help thinking that the pipes, along with a huge reducing coupler, will look pants behind a nice new towel rail.

What huge reducing coupler are you thinking of?
I was thinking of chrome compression elbow and Peglar chrome reducing elbow.
The plastic would go up behind rad and mostly out of sight.
It looks a lot better than 2 bits of copper going into a nice chrome rad.

 

[wheeto]

OK well you've lost me, sorry

Having extended the current copper (and not quite sure why 10mm either?), why would any pipes end up behind the rad? Did you see the pic the OP posted?

 

[ferret]

Just use angled rad valves pointing back to wall with a compression elbow down onto a compression coupling , easy for diy if you cant solder , if you can still use angled valves but with soldered street or elbow to soldered coupling , simples