Lion's Head Radiator - Need Help Identifying

Bende Bessko

If you are replacing your boiler for a hot water system, which it looks like you have. You need to do a heat loss calculation for your house and size the boiler according to that and not the total EDR of your rads.

Pat Justis

Help me identify these radiators

I'm seeking help identifying my radiators so I can do calcs for overhauling my home system. Here's the message I sent to Dan:

I'm in the process of designing an overhaul of my home hydronic heating system and am having trouble identifying my radiators. The home was built about 1926, a bungalow in St. Louis. I was able to identify the one plain radiator (photo Bed1 and Bed1closeup) from Dan's EDR book and believe it to be a US Radiator Triton 5-column. However, I do not find in the EDR book the other radiators in my house. The other 4 radiators that are shown in the remaining photos are ornamental. Assuming they are also US Radiator models, the shape is VERY similar to the Florentine, except that mine have a lion's head with ring in it's mouth at the top corner of the larger radiators.

Can you help me identify these? Thanks for any help you can provide.

jeff_51

they are all essentially the same

You should be pretty safe using the same edr values for all of the rads based on no of colums, sections and height

Steamhead (in transit)

Those ornate beauties

are column rads which have standardized ratings. Use any column rad chart except H.B. Smith. Bed1 is a 5-column "window" radiator, which will also appear in these charts.

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