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Today, we're gonna show you a really simple little job:
how to hang and pipe up a towel rail.
Now towel rails are quite fidgety
because of the brackets they have
are just individual little brackets most of the time.
Not like the long easy brackets that you get
to hang a normal radiator on.
So I'm just gonna show you how to do that right now
on this wall just here
and then we're gonna fill it up,
get it working, get it burning hot.
So, I hope that you enjoy today's video
and let's get going 'cause it's gonna be
absolutely amazingly epic.
Hold tight!
Right, first things first: prepare the radiator for instal.
A lot of them have a small bung on top
that you need to put in just like this one here.
Do that, and there'll be one on the other side as well
that we've already put in.
That should be it there, put that in
and make sure it's closed.
Now you turn your radiator upside down
and get your spigots ready.
These are the bits that will go in
at the other end of the radiator
that connect onto your radiator valves
and either be a TRV, or a thermostatic radiator valve,
or a standard lockshield valve.
Now this is the heat sink radiator for this system
so it's gonna have two lockshields on it, so.
So, I'm just gonna PTFE these up.
Of course, you can use Boss White, hemp, or even Loctite.
It all works fine.
Just use whatever you feel comfortable with.
And then pop each one of these
in the other end of your radiator.
(metal clangs)
Do that to both sides.
Now, get the radiator up against a wall or laying down,
somewhere you can work on it.
And have it so you've got the top and the rear facing you.
What I usually do is,
you'll have a plate that goes on the wall like that.
This part is attached to the radiator
and will go into that plate,
and this part on the other side of the radiator
goes round there and pinches the harp.
Now, what I always do is
try and attach the two top ones first
so you know roughly what your widths are,
and then you can hold up the radiator so you know
roughly kind of what height you want it to be at.
So let's mark up that right now.
(metal clangs)
I always try to tend to have them
as wide apart as possible
so you can get any kind of towels in there
and stuff like that.
And just tighten that up.
Make sure it's reasonably straight as well.
We don't want this approaching the wall at an angle.
We want it to be approaching the wall reasonably square.
Once you've got these two marked up and popped in,
we can then twist it round, lift it up,
and you might need someone to help you here,
to make the centre of one of these
or the height at which you want your radiator.
Soon as you've got that, you can move on to the next stage.
So that's just about, oh, just about here.
Yeah, just about there'd be lovely.
So that's pretty much on the line of this tile along here.
So I can remember that.
But if it's you, just grab a pencil and just make a mark
exactly at the kind of height
that you want it to be at the top.
Right, so now we know the height that we need.
We now need to know where we want the centre
of the radiator to be.
Now we've got these two pipes here,
and if I measure them,
this is the old radiator.
41.5 there, that's 20.75 just there.
Right, once we've got our centre line just here,
where we know our centre is.
Make sure your spirit level's straight
and that your spirit bubble is in the middle
of this spirit pipe here.
And then draw the line up from there.
Just keep on going up until we get to the top
where we know the top of our radiator is going to be.
So now that we've got the centre and the height,
we can then get our wall plates
and pop them on just like so
and then measure the distance from centre to centre.
39 centimetres.
Divide that by two, then I have what to measure out
from your centre mark here and here.
Measure out from our centre line 19.5 and mark.
And do the same on the other side.
Measure out 19.5 and mark that there.
Now what we do is get a drill,
get the plugs that have been supplied,
and we actually attach these two plates
onto the wall up here.
(drills)
Say again on the other side where you marked it.
(drills)
And then pop your plugs in and screw your plate to the wall.
So we got our plugs in now with our screw,
just living down there.
(drills)
These are brilliant, these drills.
If you wanna buy a Makita drill,
check on the description below.
I've given a link, I'm a good lad like that.
(drills)
Right, now that everybody's screwed in,
we should be able to get our radiator,
just marry it up to them.
Look at that, fit perfectly, straight away, first time.
Isn't that bloody brilliant?
Right, so now we go to the bottom of the radiator
and do what we did earlier
and just mark up our two brackets on the bottom,
making sure that they're straight.
Right, the main difference with this bit
is this time we are gonna put on our brackets at the bottom
and then we're gonna pick this up,
fit it round, push in our top brackets,
and then all we need to do for this bottom bit here
is marry it up to the wall
and just draw a little circle right round where they are.
So, flip our radiator over and then hang it up there
in these two holes.
If you're worried, you've got some locking screws
you can put in there so they won't come off.
Now we go back down here.
Now we can see exactly where these are gonna go.
So just draw around them nice and lightly.
(pencil scratches)
I'll just pull that away so you'll be able to see.
Got a nice circle there of exactly where to put that.
Do that on both sides and then pull the radiator off.
So now we have our mark on the wall there.
All we need to do is just put that set
central to our hole where we've done it,
and then in the middle,
mark where we need to drill our hole,
and then drill your hole.
(drills)
Pop your plug in just like that.
Right, before you actually screw everything
into the wall now,
it's probably a good idea,
you just go around with a wet cloth
and then wipe off all your pencil marks,
'cause it's gonna be a nightmare to wipe them off
when you've got all those grills in the wall.
So do that now.
Then, hang your radiator to the wall.
Right then so, in at the top,
pop, and then,
in at the bottom.
And there we go.
All we need to do now
is put our little locking screws in the side holes
and we're done.
All right, now we've got all these put in,
you should find your radiator's
really well attached to the wall.
Just make sure that all your screws are tightened up nicely.
And then you can pop your decorative caps on.
Isn't that nice?
Now you can check how amazing you are, okay?
Grab your spirit level, pop it on the top.
Oh my god, I am just too goddamn good at this!
Right in the middle, also you can tell there as well
that the tiling's perfectly level as well,
which means we've got another legendary tiler
who actually puts in horizontal and level tiles.
(coughs)
Me.
The next thing to do is pop our valves on the bottom
and then do a little bit of pipe work.
We can fill our vent and get it all going
and burning hot and dry some towels out, yeah!
So then, as I'm sure you're aware,
we're all really quick at the pipe work.
And it's pretty much as quick as
(snaps)
that, all done.
All in, pressure tested, filled up and burning hot.
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I'm gonna polish these pipes up right now
with a secret recipe what I ain't gonna tell you.
I will speak to you later.
Hold tight, throughout my life, blah!
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