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Default Mounting horizontal radiator vertically... is it possible?

In article ews.net,
"Doctor Drivel" wrote:

Where is it to be fitted? Kitchen?



Yeah, kitchen-diner and there really is very little wall-space - no more
than 60cm which also has to accomodate a light switch. So the 30cm
rad-on-end would be ideal and would fill the otherwise useless bit of
wall.

I looked at towel rads but they don't go that thin or as tall as the 300
x 1400 standard rad at Screwfix.

I searched the group kickspace heaters but several people said they
were noisy and/or inefficient.

I considered the ordinary short rads linked via chrome pipe but I'd need
three above each other to get the BTUs which I think could start to look
a little odd.

There's no stud partition for a heated wall so that option is out.


Thanks - Cic and AG - for the info on the twin entry valves and the 1.5
panel rads.

I'm surprised that you can't just get a tall, narrow, plain rad from one
of the main suppliers - it would be the economic, discreet, low-tech
solution . I'm sure I remember seeing them in the Wickes booklet many
years ago, and being short of wall space doesn't seem like an entirly
uncommon problem.