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Flexible pipe to temporarily replace radiator?

Mike T., Swampeast MO
Mike T., Swampeast MO Member Posts: 6,928
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J.C.A. gave wonderful advice worth stressing!

When you have standing iron rads and are doing floor work, consider the effect of such work as ESSENTIAL to the planning! Forget to plan ahead and you'll have problems. Just search here and you'll find many cases where people forgot to do this and a minor adjustment becomes a significant issue.

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  • Greg_37
    Greg_37 Member Posts: 1
    Is there a way to temporarily replace a radiator?

    Hello. We have a two pipe steam radiator that we want to take out of service for painting while we install a new kitchen floor. Can both pipes be capped so that we can keep the system ON while we do the work? Or does someone make a heat-resistant flexible hose that we could use to temporarily replace the radiator? We'd need about a 4-foot hose. Thanks in advance.
  • J.C.A._3
    J.C.A._3 Member Posts: 2,980
    Greg,

    Cap it . Run the system as usual, but please remember that you are doing work to the floor. (I'm just saving you from the next question here BTW)

    Maybe while you have the floor work being done, you will consider that the radiator DOES have to go back...so either the pipe will have to be raised to maintain the pitch, or the floor has to remain on the same plane as the current floor.
    If It has to be raised,PLEASE think about this while the old floor is out, and make the appropriate adjustments then.

    Do you know why I tell you this ? (Thanks Dan!) Chris
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