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Lobster

wrote:
Most of my radiotors are plumbed using 10mm pipe

As I decorate the house (we only moved in a few months ago) and need
to take the raditors off the wall to paint

I would like to add service vales

Only I cant find anywhere that sells them !!!

Well for a start you need to search for "valves" rather than "values" or
"vales"... ;-)

Why, though? If you turn off the control and lockshield valves
completely, you can just undo and remove the radiator for painting
(subject to draining tha radiator of course).

Screwfix stock (or at least did) a replacement radiator tail
incorporating a service valve - very neat and allegedly let you undo a
radiator and remove it while still full of water. I bought a set once as
a try-out, and they leaked! and I had to drain down again to replace the
originals. So never again!

David