Towel rad

[lenny]

Good evening,
A couple of years ago I did a bathroom install, I remember the towel rad that was already fitted was piped from above using the top connections of the rad. Is it possible to plumb a rad this way or may it have been a special kind of rad?

Len

 

[mickie]

i cant see why not

 

[tamz]

It won't work. You would need a spreader tube to feed it to the bottom. If you can't do that you would need TBOE or BOE.

 

[mickie]

ive not done it before, my answer was a total guess

 

[tamz]

Learned from experience many years ago. It circulates around the top few rails. It can be made to work this way tho.
Knock a 10mm reducer into the rad valve tail and solder a length of 10mm onto it to suit the length of the rail. This will feed the flow to the bottom of the rail and allow the water to circulate properly.

 

[Ian10261]

Same deal as those twin pipe rad valves, they only work if theres an internal pipe that spits out the flow at the opposite end of the rad. Personally i cant see why anyone would want to pipe it up in this way.