Wall Hung Radiator Hardware

New England SteamWorks

So, I am off to hang the wall hung radiator pictured below (right) on an actual wall tomorrow. Any one have any experience on a good hardware solution? Not as big as it looks in the picture, 15" x 30"

New England SteamWorks

Additionally, I Looked it up in Dan's EDR book, but didn't find. I did a back-of-the-envelope calc and came up with an EDR of 19, but I wouldn't mind if anyone could double check or confirm. It's a little important for the application.

Canucker

I'm very interested in a solution as I have a few I am going to install. I have an idea but I wonder if there is a better way

New England SteamWorks

Well, the dawn is not far off my friend. Please share your idea quick!

Steamhead

Closest thing I can find is 13x29, at 9 square feet. Figure maybe 10 for that one.

Canucker

I was thinking of getting flat steel(not sure how thick or wide it have to be to support my rads) and having a machine shop bend one end 90 degrees and then bending it farther up from the 90 to give me my offset from the wall. Leave enough room for holes to be drilled so it can be lagged to a stud and the rad sits in the bends, like a hook. If it supports the weight, you could use the threaded pipe supports to keep it from tipping. I suppose you could make something similar if you can weld, @RI_SteamWorks

Danny Scully

OCS industries makes a bracket (for their wall hung radiator) but I used it for a similar one in my home.

New England SteamWorks

Thank you Frank and Dan! I tried to use 1/2" x 6" lags, but they wouldn't fit between the sections. Going to try with 3/8ths tomorrow unless a better idea surfaces here. Unfortunately I don't have time to get Dan's wonderful brackets, though I bookmarked them!

New England SteamWorks

Trouble Wallies! In the picture below you will see the newly hung radiator. A bit of back ground: This third floor room had no original heat (attic). At some point it was converted and a plumber was hired to bring steam heat in. He tapped off a 2nd floor bathroom radiator with 3/4" copper and went 35' ( a long convoluted path through the attic) to this room and tacked on 12' of standard 3/4" baseboard (you can see the discolored baseboard molding on the right where we removed it).

Of course it never worked from day one. But they still payed the guy to come back a zillion times with a new fix, but of course, -never going to happen. Tenants froze in that room every winter and used space heaters.

So we come along, find the radiator on Craigslist for them, tell them to go buy it, we re-pipe it properly, connect and hang the radiator, and fire it up and everything works perfectly. Even the bathroom below that was under-radiated got an extra 2200 BTUs from our piping.

Are they happy?

No! They say we put it on the wrong wall! In the picture you can just see the window on the right. Well that wall (which had the baseboard) goes for 8 feet forming a bit of an alcove where apparently the bed goes. The wall opposite the radiator (not in picture) is where they wanted it (the entire room is very tiny, perhaps 8' x 12') (the door is just out of the picture to the left of the radiator). So they would like us to run the 1-1/2" steam pipe across the wall just under the window (due to pitch) to the other wall, so the headboard of the bed could go on the wall where the radiator currently is. Rather than turn the bed around. They want that big (and hot) steam pipe going across the room, about 12" to 18" above the floor.

Make sense to anyone? Doesn't to me...

KC_Jones

RI_SteamWorks said:

Make sense to anyone? Doesn't to me...

The customer is always right? Honestly if I wanted it moved I would possibly go under the window if anything, which seems like it could be done without a huge amount of trouble. Running the pipe all the way across the room just doesn't make sense to me.

New England SteamWorks

Yes. The customer is always right and I told them to sleep on it and we'd move it if they like. I just don't like the optics of the (hot) pipe across the room. I can't see it. But maybe I am blind and so I've thrown it to the Wallies!

Charlie from wmass

At least they will get greater heat in the room with the extra surface area of the pipe. Sorry I missed this thread earlier I use 3/8 lag hangers with couplings, heavy pattern nuts, and Fender washers

Dave0176

Unreal........

ChicagoCooperator

I just had one removed this moving - basically the supply pipe was holding it up and the brackets weren't carrying any load.