Has anyone moved a radiator?

[m0therofdragons]

I want to move a standard radiator to a different wall and replace with a stylish vertical one. This would free up a wall to add a pantry cupboard when we eventually do the kitchen. Flooring has to be replaced due to a leak so it makes sense to do that at the same time. Is it hard/expensive? Any ideas? Thank you.

Moved about two feet along same wall last month. Took two days including retiring the floor where the original pipes went into the floor. Just under £400 for labour.

Just having this done in two rooms.
However one more awkward than the other. One room (wooden floor boards) took an hour to move. Other one is a concrete floor and therefore damage to walls needs to be calculated in as pipes have been rooted through walls.
Cost about £300 plus radiators.

do you have a chipboard floor, and do the pipes come up through it?

If the plumber can get at the pipes under the floor, she can reroute them fairly easily.

If the floor is concrete or the pipes come through the wall, it will be harder and/or uglier.

@PigletJohn it’s an 18 year old house and has that green chip board so I’m assuming it’s just under there. Do vertical radiators work as well as standard ones? It’s a warm house so I think it’ll be fine.

Got ours moved from one wall to another (only 2 metres as a very skinny kitchen). Already had floor removed so easy access for cutting through floor boards. Cost £80 and was done in under 2 hours.

warm air rises, so a long, low radiator heats a wider part of the room than a tall narrow one, and gives more even heat.

Tall radiators are especially good at heating ceilings.

they are, however, currently considered very fashionable, which is their greatest benefit.

Check out what btu rating you need for your size room and buy at least that - many vertical ones give out f all compared to a horizontal double skinned ‘classic’

Saying that, we swapped a long horizontal to a tall column one to fit granddads piano in after he passed, it looks great and the room is still cosy (but I did select the size that was roughly 33% higher than the calculator said I needed).

I've had a couple of radiators moved and I don't remember it being hugely expensive

Thank you everyone, hugely helpful! It’s an open plan kitchen dinner and both rooms have a radiator but the kitchen one is the smaller one so I don’t think it’ll have a big impact heat wise but I’ll call a plumber to get things moving tomorrow. Next issue is how on earth do I deal with re flooring the downstairs with a puppy and 3 dc

when the floor is taken up, they will all climb down and disappear.

Hopefully they will mostly come up when you wave a sausage down the hole.

I once had a cat that couldn't find her way out. Luckily she managed it when I put an inspection lamp in the cavity.