Ensuring Long Life & Great Radiator Performance
Keep Your Radiators Uncluttered For a radiator to work efficiently, it needs to breathe. Quite often, and for a number of [...]
Adding a Humidifier To Your Radiator
One of the concerns we often hear from our clients is how to overcome a lack of humidity in their home. When heating [...]
Rusting Away
A cast iron radiator can look absolutely beautiful for decades.... If you strip the paint from a cast iron rad, that same rad [...]
Gaskets, Nipples & Section Leaks
One issue we come across with cast iron radiators is that between sections a leak can develop. Radiator sections seal in two ways: [...]
The Cold Truth on Section Cracks
A cast iron radiator is stable, durable and dependable, but is there a breakage factor. There are a few different reasons why a [...]
Cast Iron Vs. Steel
“The problem comes down to lack of knowledge and inexperienced technicians doing the job”. People continue to be misadvised about the complexities of [...]
Integrating Steel Radiators In a Home
There are likely to be very significant swings in temperature in a home with cast iron mixed in with steel radiators. Here's an [...]
The Skinny on Bulky Cast Iron
So many clients over the years have asked to buy a thin steel radiator to add to their space of cast iron radiators [...]
Florence: The Most Versatile Steel Radiator
Steel radiators are not as big and heavy as traditional cast iron, and can be wall mounted or have feet. They are more [...]
Bushings: Crafty Connections
Tapped left or tapped right: what does that mean? We get asked this often. If a rad is tapped left it means the [...]