Decorative/ Small/ Wall Mount Steam Radiators

Doug Wagoner

why not cut the pipe 2 feet above the vanity you want to install and offset the floor penetration to clear the vanity and make your self a "towel warmer"?

Tom_22

Selection and Finding Steam Radiators

In hot water, there are all kinds of decorative and designer radiators. Do such things exist for steam? I would like to put some small radiators in bathrooms that currently have a heat riser pipe. There is very little room to install a radiator anywhere... I was considering something wall mounted.

Could anyone direct me to where I might find a selection of small and preferably decorative and modern looking steam radiators? Tanks, Tom

bob young

you could always use a two foot section of cast iron baseboard. c.i. free standing radiators are back in vogue.

Steamhead

They make modern ones

go to www.steamradiators.com to see the two I know of. I haven't used them, but I think Alan Forbes (California Radiant Wizard) did and they worked well for him.

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Tom_22

Using baseboard

Hi Bob,

I was thinking of that. I have very little space around the base of the bathroom though. I was thinking of mounting it high on the wall, but I'm afraid the room might not heat very well that way. Any thoughts on a high mounted radiator?

Another thought I had was to mount it inside a new vanity I want to install. The vanity would keep the heat from circulating though. I wonder if I made a hole in the side of the vanity and a couple of holes in the doors and put decorative screen in the holes, if the room would warm up OK?

The bathroom has a 2" heat riser pipe now acting as a radiator. It works OK but it rises in a corner and I would like to install the largest vanity I can fit (about 30" wide) and the riser pipe would prevent it from going all the way into the corner.

TomBk

Tom_22

Nice looking, but wow...expensive!

Those are nice looking radiators, Steamhead. But they sure are expensive. Yikes!

I'd like to be able to sell some unneeded conventional looking radiators I have for that kind of money. I'll probably wind up bringing them to the scrapyard.

Tom