Radiator work covers more ground than it sounds like. Replacing corroded panels that no longer heat, adding a radiator to a room that has never been warm enough, moving one to free a wall for a kitchen or a wardrobe, swapping a bathroom radiator for a heated towel rail, or fitting vertical radiators where horizontal wall space has run out.
What decides whether it works is sizing. Radiator output depends on height, length and panel type, single, double, or double with double convector fins, and each room needs an output that matches its heat loss. A large bay window, an external corner, a room above a garage or a solid-walled Victorian front room all need more output than the floor area alone suggests.
The second half of the job is balancing. Adding output anywhere changes how flow distributes across the whole system. Fit a new radiator without rebalancing and you often solve one cold room by creating another. We balance the system on completion using the lockshield valves, so each radiator takes its intended share.
We work on domestic properties only, across Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Where a system is opened up, the inhibitor is restored afterwards, draining a system and refilling it without re-dosing is how corrosion problems start.
