Post by DIYDafty on Aug 13, 2019 21:57:04 GMT
This is just to let off a bit of Dafty steam really. Bought my rads from ebay and actually was overall impressed. "Designer" etc and very well packed and even came with some decent chunky valves.
Problem is the bastards came with 4 brackets per rad (only about 90cm wide 60cm tall) but they're doubles and still pretty heavy. I'm going in to a stud wall and the brackets miss one of the studs so I cut a small square out of plasterboard at the bottom, pushed in a bit of 4x2 and screwed it in. So I have 3 brackets going into timber and 1 top bracket using spring toggle.
The brackets are half a circle and the rad just rests on top. They are steel but very thin small and flimsy. They come with silicone/rubber sleaves that sit on the top. The problem is that to get the rads level and also so that both top and bottom brackets grip the rad properly (so that there is no wobble) needs accuracy to the mm.
I had two of these rads to fix and long story short is the first went well but the second - my god I must have taken that rad off and on the brackets to readjust more than 20 times (not exaggerating). I also ended up re-drilling too many holes and making a pig's ear of one bracket especially. Got there in the end though and its now level and doesn't rock. Thank god I don't have to do it as a living!! (Don't get me wrong I like doing the work but if it was under pressure of a customer and a making a living I'd have folded long ago).
Rant over as they say !!
Edit: One of the problems I had was I couldn't work out what the distance between the brackets at the bottom and those at the top should be and it was this distance that needed to be spot on for them to sit well. Nothing in the instructions about it - no template or anything.
For anyone that cares rad is here: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/232660764453
Problem is the bastards came with 4 brackets per rad (only about 90cm wide 60cm tall) but they're doubles and still pretty heavy. I'm going in to a stud wall and the brackets miss one of the studs so I cut a small square out of plasterboard at the bottom, pushed in a bit of 4x2 and screwed it in. So I have 3 brackets going into timber and 1 top bracket using spring toggle.
The brackets are half a circle and the rad just rests on top. They are steel but very thin small and flimsy. They come with silicone/rubber sleaves that sit on the top. The problem is that to get the rads level and also so that both top and bottom brackets grip the rad properly (so that there is no wobble) needs accuracy to the mm.
I had two of these rads to fix and long story short is the first went well but the second - my god I must have taken that rad off and on the brackets to readjust more than 20 times (not exaggerating). I also ended up re-drilling too many holes and making a pig's ear of one bracket especially. Got there in the end though and its now level and doesn't rock. Thank god I don't have to do it as a living!! (Don't get me wrong I like doing the work but if it was under pressure of a customer and a making a living I'd have folded long ago).
Rant over as they say !!
Edit: One of the problems I had was I couldn't work out what the distance between the brackets at the bottom and those at the top should be and it was this distance that needed to be spot on for them to sit well. Nothing in the instructions about it - no template or anything.
For anyone that cares rad is here: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/232660764453
) I took a while measuring EVERYTHING. Like Endfeed, I fixed the top two, but then spirit level and tape measure to fit the bottom two. Each of the four brackets got two brown rawlplugs and 2" s/s screws. Stood on the rad, just to make sure. It held. 
The next couple I measured from bottom to bottom of the brackets, after working out where I wanted the rad placed. A lot less swearing! 
) I took a while measuring EVERYTHING. Like Endfeed, I fixed the top two, but then spirit level and tape measure to fit the bottom two. Each of the four brackets got two brown rawlplugs and 2" s/s screws. Stood on the rad, just to make sure. It held. 
