Replacing Radiator & Valves

Mousewar

So I started something last night I maybe shouldn't have. Since the bleeding valve thingy on one my radiators was broken and couldn't be opened I decided to just change the whole radiator.
Well, I got the radiator off the wall eventually but those nuts were on really hard and just seemed encased in years of gulp and grime. It took a lot of elbow grease and unfortunately the radiator valves and inlet/outlet pipes suffered (they bent a fair bit). There was water leaking out of them just below where the pipe hits the valve. I straightened them back up and then tightened them and that seemed to stop the leak. That's where I'm at. I figure I have three options now.

1 - Take it that the leak is sorted and just connect up the new radiator and be done with it.
2 - Replace the valves
3 - Call a plumber (I am so not a plumber)

Option 1 will probably work but I'd just be nervous that I have damaged those valves and it would leak in the future.
Option 2 would involve draining the system I believe. Not sure how to do this really and how hard/messy it would be. If I succeeded in draining the system, would much or any water come out of the pipe after I remove the valve?
Option 3 will cost me money.

Any advice please?

K.Flyer

Mousewar wrote: »

1 - Take it that the leak is sorted and just connect up the new radiator and be done with it.
2 - Replace the valves
3 - Call a plumber (I am so not a plumber)

Option 1 will probably work but I'd just be nervous that I have damaged those valves and it would leak in the future.
Option 2 would involve draining the system I believe. Not sure how to do this really and how hard/messy it would be. If I succeeded in draining the system, would much or any water come out of the pipe after I remove the valve?
Option 3 will cost me money.

Any advice please?

My advice is to get hold of a recommended plumber to sort it out for you.
If you do not know what you are doing, the cost of repairing the damage caused by a flood from the system, especially if the system is heavily contaminated with sludge would far outweigh the small cost of a good plumber doing the job right.

Sparkpea

#3

if you had done that in the first place it would have most likely cost you less than you are now going to have to pay

Mousewar

Plumber did it all in about 40 mins. Valves were fine. I was in a little over my head to be fair.

Billy Bunting

Mousewar wrote: »

Since the bleeding valve thingy on one my radiators was broken and couldn't be opened I decided to just change the whole radiator.

If you had asked about this 20minutes and a few cent would have sorted it.

Mousewar

Billy Bunting wrote: »

If you had asked about this 20minutes and a few cent would have sorted it.

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