Hi All
Working in an office on the local estate, various jobs - one of which was bleeding a radiator.
I don't believe it!
He has a picture somewhere of a walk-in freezer having been built in a shop within 25mm of an instore ATM. You could just see it by looking along the side of the freezer!
Tony
Were the long spacers there to allow enough clearance for a plug to be inserted?
Maybe. But they didn't achieve the objective. Too close for a plug to go in.
Yes, and a hook on the wall for hanging up a pair of long nosed pliers used to insert/remove the plugs when the radiator is hot.
Can't believe the electrician took the rad off to get his socket in the right place...
Cheers
Richard
Isn't it more likely to be that the socket was there first and the plumber put the radiator on top. Either because it was the easiest place to put it or because the householder (or office manager) had a specific reason for wanting it there.
Andrew
It saves electricity, that's for sure.
Thomas Prufer
I have the same situation in my kitchen AND I DID IT!! The reason being we needed the radiator moving to accomodate an 'American' fridge freezer and the wall in front of the socket was the ONLY space it could go, but at least I put another socket in on the existing radiator wall while I had the floor up. I left the other socket live in case the radiator ever got moved in the future by me or a new owner.
Cheers
John
Wooosh
...and I'm sure Tony Bryer won't mind me reposting this classic:
David
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:03:29 GMT someone who may be Lobster wrote this:-
Is the socket for connecting the floor warming cable, which lies on top of the shower tray?
Almost worth blu-tacking one onto the shower wall to see visitor's faces....
The message from "Steve Walker" contains these words:
I do, that picture could have been taken in my hall. The plumbers who installed our CH were asked to take out the rad in the living room and mount it on the other side of the wall in the hall. What we didn't specify is that we would have liked to have still been able to use the plug sockets there. they put the rad almost in the same position as yours when there was an acre of wall space to mount it.
It was more a Basil Fawlty moment when I saw it :)
I don't suppose it had anything to do with that position allowing for the easiest pipe run did it?
I only just saw this thread, but we have an identical radiator in our bedroom. And it couldn't have been moved from the other side of the wall 'cos there's a 20ft drop that side...
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