no pitch radiators

Leon in NJ

I,m in the process of moving a recessed/in the wall radiator and just noticed all the other recessed radiators in the house are LEVEL and heating fine. When I put a pitch towards the inlet valve( as usual with one-pipe )it looks tilted and obviously out of square in it's trimmed out wall alcove, and looks worse when compared to all the others. Are these radiators different from the column types and heat level?

Jeff_17

I have two recessed...

rads in my house. One in the kitchen and one in a half bath that REPLACED THE ORIGINAL SCROLL-TOPPED VICTORIAN STYLE RADS that I was lucky enough to STILL have in the rest of my house. Mine are not pitched either and work fine...i.e. no water hammer. BUT, I still think that half of the heat they emit and radiate gets pushed into the wall in which they are recessed. I still recall Dan telling a story that the DEAD MEN figured that a radiator heats best when it is TWO inches or more away from a wall in order to allow air flow to give more heat. I will be removing the one in my kitvhen this spring, closing up the wall, and installing a column type that I was lucky enough to find at an architectural salvage place....that matches the Victorian ones in the rest of the house!