My mate had a strange arrangement of vertical runs of chrome plated copper
pipe in the tiny gap in his kitchen wall as a "home made" radiator fitted by
the previous owners. Looked like some of the modern designer radiators you
can get nowadays. Worked well, but kitchen was very small. I think is was
just 6 vertical runs of pipe in one long loop.

When kitchen was extended and redone it was replaced with kick space
radiators..


"mike" wrote in message
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We have a large space to heat with very little available wall space.

I've had a look for vertical rads and not really found any "normal"
ones, and I'm not inclined to spend a fortune on a designer one,
particularly when it doesn't have the BTUs required to heat the space.

So is it possible to mount a standard horizontal radiator vertically
(with both valves running vertically downwards on the bottom (ie. what
would ordinarily be one side of the rad) or does that come under the
heading of Really Stupid Idea? (And if so, why?)

It would be great if I could just take this 300x1200 rad from Screwfix...

http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/...66312&id=21132

... and turn it through 90 degrees, but life's not that simple, is it???