I'm being badgered to buy some radiator covers because someone has suddenly decided that radiators are ugly. The radiator covers look much uglier to me and I'm sure they are a bit down market like those brass light fittings with three lamps and a fan. Or are they the latest thing?
Radiator covers
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They used to quite prevalent in the art lit circles that I move in, probably because of the reference TS Eliot made to them in the uncensored version of the wasteland.
I think we've all come to the conclusion now though that they are not only visually displeasing, but unnecessarily increase fuel bills, increasing the average household's carbon footprint.
I think we've all come to the conclusion now though that they are not only visually displeasing, but unnecessarily increase fuel bills, increasing the average household's carbon footprint.
My family live in the same block of flats that T.S.Eliot lived in when he wrote the wasteland.
He lived at No. 69.
No one has managed to live there since without some weird misfortune or misery overcoming them - seriously, there's something wrong with that flat....
However, radiator covers do suit the flats in that building.
But that doesn't mean they suit Simon's Wimpey build mock tudor mansion :?:
He lived at No. 69.
No one has managed to live there since without some weird misfortune or misery overcoming them - seriously, there's something wrong with that flat....
However, radiator covers do suit the flats in that building.
But that doesn't mean they suit Simon's Wimpey build mock tudor mansion :?:
Mr Pig
New Member
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If you like:
Plastic wood-effect flooring
Fake Daulton figurines
Gold-coloured fittings
Caravans
Then radiator covers are for you :0)
Plastic wood-effect flooring
Fake Daulton figurines
Gold-coloured fittings
Caravans
Then radiator covers are for you :0)
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
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- Thumberland
why not simply join thousands of shreddies together with string, to get the same effect? 
domtyler
Über Member
You can buy some really beautiful radiators nowadays, why hide them away when you make them a feature?
Check here:
http://www.castrads.com/?kw=reproduction radiators&fl=25999
These are repro's but there are also lots of people who will sell you beautifully restored originals which may be more appropriate for a man of wealth and status like Simon.
Check here:
http://www.castrads.com/?kw=reproduction radiators&fl=25999
These are repro's but there are also lots of people who will sell you beautifully restored originals which may be more appropriate for a man of wealth and status like Simon.
swee'pea99
Legendary Member
'er indores got one (without asking me). I hate the bloody thing...takes up half the hall, attracts clutter, looks pig-ugly. Give me an honest radiator any day.
Over The Hill
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Put badgerer off the idea
1) they stop the heat getting out and you will get cold.
2) you will have nowhere to dry all the crap you put on the Rad to dry.
3)cost of them is more than new (nicer) radiator.
4) how green you are to just use what you have and not replace good rads or waste trees making silly boxes for them to go in.
I agree with domtyler that a nice looking radiator is better that an ulgy one in an ugly box. Homebase do a relly nice range of chunky repro ones. I have put them in my extension. Real cast iron ones are a pig to put in.
1) they stop the heat getting out and you will get cold.
2) you will have nowhere to dry all the crap you put on the Rad to dry.
3)cost of them is more than new (nicer) radiator.
4) how green you are to just use what you have and not replace good rads or waste trees making silly boxes for them to go in.
I agree with domtyler that a nice looking radiator is better that an ulgy one in an ugly box. Homebase do a relly nice range of chunky repro ones. I have put them in my extension. Real cast iron ones are a pig to put in.
simoncc said:I'm being badgered to buy some radiator covers because someone has suddenly decided that radiators are ugly. The radiator covers look much uglier to me and I'm sure they are a bit down market like those brass light fittings with three lamps and a fan. Or are they the latest thing?
Imho they look chuffing awful
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I agree with simoncc. They're horrid.
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Deep breath and....
I agree with simoncc. They're horrid.
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