The Lemon Fool

Hi there. We are having our kitchen redone early next year which means that an existing radiator needs replaced and sited somewhere else. The installer will do all the work but we need to supply the radiator.

Key dimensions & requirements
Depth from wall to front of radiator including fixings - 116mm max
Width - 600mm max - ideally under 500mm
Height - whatever is needed to get BTU requirements
BTU - 4600 to 5500 (depending on which online calculation tool you use)

• Any recommendations on what to buy or where to buy? bestheating.co.uk seem to have some reasonable prices.
• What other things might we need to buy? If they don't come with thermostats or valves, can I reuse the one on current (bog-standard) radiator?
• Any other considerations?

What about something like this? http://www.bestheating.com/milano-alpha ... 420mm.html
or this slightly less powerful one http://www.bestheating.com/milano-aruba ... 472mm.html

Thanks
Clariman

I am just doing the same our bathroom and living room.

A friend is a heating engineer and recommended Traderadiators.co.uk

They do a range of rads, from designer to own brand.

Here is the one I am getting for my living room. Not cheap, and it is over 7000 BTU, but it is nice looking!

https://www.traderadiators.com/acatalog ... l#SID=1459

SB

In 2014, brought a Muro Blanco for my builders to install for when the kitchen was upgraded.

http://www.geyser.co.uk/white-portrait-c-64_90.html

Found this site and the radiator I got and the fittings beat my expectations and drew excellent comments from the builders, plumbers and kitchen suppliers. If they liked it must be good.

Raptor.

Hi,

I am a big fan of Acova Striane. I have both horizontal and vertical versions in various sizes - and I have three of the exact one below and my Mum has a fourth that I fitted.

This should fit the bill and they lie especially flat to the wall - on 68mm deep

http://www.diy.com/departments/acova-st ... 226_BQ.prd

Height
2000mm

Width
532mm

Depth
68mm

BTU
4852Btu

Heat output
4852 Btu

Power output
1422W

Material
Steel

Colour description
White

Regards

Pheid

I like Hudevad radiators, and I think they might have something that works for you - see https://shop.hudevad.co.uk/vertical-radiators

Clariman wrote:We are having our kitchen redone early next year

We added an electrically driven kick-board radiator/fan to up the BTU output into the kitchen. We hardly use it, but it helps on really cold days when you're not cooking. Have the "boost" option might let you choose more stylist radiators elsewhere.
C

BTU - 4600 to 5500 (depending on which online calculation tool you use)

While you're choosing your radiator, it might be worth checking how hot the existing radiator gets to aid you with your heat load calculations.

If memory serves, radiators heat output is calculated on T +50ºC, so if the room is at 20ºC the radiator will need to be at 70ºC to provide its full output.

I've got a cheap £20 infra red heat detector gun from Maplin, it looks very similar to this one:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/infrared-ther ... 7Qod7QQKoA

It is telling me that the radiator next to the desk is ticking over at 40ºC - Even with the heating on full bore, the radiators in this part of the house (and a long way from the boiler) don't get much over 55ºC, which means my heating calculations were a long way off when I specced the rads - Thankfully, I had a large fudge factor and specced for twice as much heat as the calculations suggested which still results in a toasty warm room, though it can take a considerable time to warm up, especially if we've been away for a few days in winter.

You might consider seeing how much heat you really need by turning off the radiator and using a fan heater for a few days, while it's not a precise number 3600BTU is close enough to 1kW to be usable for rough calculations. If a fan heater on the 1kW setting runs all the time, you'll need a bigger radiator, if the 2kW setting runs all the time, you're going to have to scale up again.

Regards,

B.

Incidentally, those thermometer guns are really useful in the kitchen as you can check oil temperatures for deep frying as well as the temperature of a cast iron pan when cooking steak, we've found that just getting it as hot as possible is not the best solution and you get better results come from a pan heated to about 300ºC

Many thanks everyone. Really helpful

I bought a radiator from Best Heating for a difficult kitchen, Their website is good because you can refine by heat output, size etc. Service was excellent and I'd use them again. Here is a link.

http://www.bestheating.com/radiators/sh ... lsrc=aw.ds

(No connection, just a satisfied customer)