Radiator 'Tail' advice please...

[MrBusagain]

Hi all,

small problem hopefully you can help me with. Fitting a double rad onto bedroom wall. Have bought a Bulldog TRV, which seems decent enough. Problem is, the two existing floor pipes have already been routed up throught he floorboards, capped off, and carpet etc fitted. I gave the distance between the pipes to the tradesperson at the Plumb Center, and he suggested which rad to opt for. The problem is that with all the Bulldog fitted correctly, I am short about 50mm. I know that there are 'extendable/telescopic' tail pieces which can be fitted instead of the suppled tail, bought I have heard that they are prety useless.

Can anyone advise? Should I workout the exact length of tail required, and then purchase accordingly, or possible buy a long tail piece and shorten with pipe cutters to required length?

Help...

 

[WHPES]

You can get some kind of tail which has a long piece of chrome pipe between the rad and the valve which you cut off accordingly and tighten up with an olive (you also need PTFE tape round the olive). Used them a year ago no problem but you MUST use the PTFE.

You can also buy the tail adaptors but you need the correct length and they are quite expensive.

 

[MrBusagain]

Thanks WHPES,

as suspected, I chave two options:

opt for a long tail piece and cut accordingly, or determine exact length required and hope this marries up with a tail piece that already exists. Not fussed if the latter is a little more expensive. Appreciate the PTFE comments, I tend to use it everywhere to be honest mate..

Thanks again. MrB