Radiator feet

Sod the feet, at 560mm wide the radiator should easily span the most common stud spacing of 400mm so if you can arrange the brackets to fix directly to the studs you will be fine but your placement of the radiator is determined by the location of the studs.

If your stud spacing is wider ie 600mm in many new builds where they compensate by using 15mm thick plasterboard, then you are into some wall butchery and reinstatement to hang it.

I recently had to hang a TV on a stud wall and could only get 2 out of 6 screws in a stud so used a sheet of ply fastened to the studs and with Tee nuts and bolts fastened the bracket to the ply this brought the TV 18mm more away from the wall but everything in my case is behind the TV.

If it is behind the radiator, its as easy to cut out squares of plasterboard between the studs and use ply./MDF to fill the gap, put the plasterboard back, make good, and paint over...

Get the chocolate fireguards - at least you could eat those!

If those radiator feet are made of mild steel, why aren't they weight bearing? Note also the two "Technical info" papers available. These /seem/ to be identical when opened in a pdf reader, but one states that the width is 72mm and the other states 84mm! Also, why do they need to be fixed to the floor with what look like 60mm woodscrews (if the screws are to scale)! If they were to be just held in place 25mm would be more than enough.

Isn't the notch cut out of the horizontal bar the point where any weight would cause it to bend/distort?

If screwing to te floor just make sure that the feed and return pipes are not under the floorboards where the feet are being installed.

But none of them are weight bearing. So that's cleared that up then,

Possibly if it's made of the same thickness of steel as is used for food cans. Even then it's not so easy to crush those as it is aluminium drinks cans. With water that rad weighs only around 50kg, so it's not exactly heavy. > If screwing to te floor just make sure that the feed and return pipes

Good point. Even more likely with the length of screws they show in the tech info (NB the widths shown are 74 and 84mm, not 72 and 64 as I stated).

What that means is 'these are not sufficient to hold the weight of a radiator *plus* a grown man pretending he is climbing a rock face'...

Or possibly 'they would support the weight of the radiator but only the pipe connections would resist it being pulled away from the wall at the top and overbalancing'.

Looking at the dimensions of the radiator and the bracket positions if your studs are at 400mm centres you should easily be able to fix directly to studs which in my opinion is the best solution rather than on feet that will make access for such things as hoovering awkward. If you can confirm the stud structure then we can advise if you need to do some plasterboard butchery.

Richard

"Support" may just mean stabilise the position - preventing the radiator moving forward or sideways.

This depends of the wall studs being central to the position of the radiator.

I had a case where the radiator only just fitted wall space available and the mounting brackets on the radiator were not in the same place as the studs in the wall.

If the studs are those flimsy C-section metal studs then that is the only resilient way of doing it.

The dimensions at that link are contradictory in their: 3 Column Radiator Feet Specification (68.09 kB) 3 Column Radiator Feet Technical Infomation (76.89 kB)

It is notable they can't spell.

However: B&Q have them

I would still attach to the wall as these feel will only take the weight and offer no protection to any side-ways force.

YMMV

Consider that it may be good idea when replacing a radiator with one that is larger especially if you want to run a heat pump or run a gas boiler at a lower feed temperature

The linked radiator

Thanks, I'm ashamed to say I hadn't thought of that. Don't know why because I've done similar in the dim and distant.

Anyway, I swept a fairly large strong magnet across the wall and was surprised at how easy it was to find the nails. As I found them, I placed a small 5mm spherical magnet at each position as a temporary marker.

Upshot is, the studs are about 17" apart and, crucially, just about bang on where I wanted to fit the rad, so, result!

As it happens, I emailed the supplier on Saturday and just received this reply...

"These are the feet for the radiator however, we don't recommend them to support the weight of it. It's more of an aesthetic look."

Thanks again, and to everyone else who replied.

Your studs are likely 16” or 400mm apart (405 to be exact) the 17” reading might be because one of the studs has a PB joint so you will get a double row of screws/nails.

When fixing brackets to the studs I would test drill with a small diam. drill to make sure you are hitting the stud and if you have to make slight adjustment you will only have tiny holes to fill with filler.

Richard

I have a similar radiator in my bathroom mounted on a stud wall. It has two long plates behind with hooks on the bottom holding the radiator and a fastening on the top.

Actually, it is 16", the 17 was a typo.

Thanks