Removing a radiator

John_109

I am having my hardwood floors refinished and I would like to remove my radiators temporarily. I am in a six family apartment. The heating system is oil fired hot water with three separate zones. Can anyone tell me what steps to take to cap off the radiators.

Brad White_19

Unless you have valves

at each side of the radiator and they are good valves with positive, bubble-tight shut off, you will have to drain at least the riser they are on, if not the entire system.

Further, you should have drain valves to drain the isolated radiator. Hard to catch that water when you uscrew the unions.

Are you really, really sure you need to do that? I have had floors finished and the most I had to do was to drive wedges under the legs and sand carefully with a detail sander made for roughly that purpose.

Not as homogenous as doing an entire expanse of floor, but is it worth the effort to disconnect the radiators? Are your neighbors on the same circuit supportive of this? Or can it wait until warmer weather when arguably you would want to have your windows open anyway?

bob young

be prepared

if you are not the owner of the building ,have an outside contractor remove & re-connect & make sure he carries liab. insur. & is not bogus. probably no big deal but water damage claims can cause major grief.