Thread: Yorkshire Radiator Covers

Probably a waste of time and effort advertising radiator covers on an Aussie site. There wouldn't be enough radiators in Australia to even give you a weeks worth of work.

Most people here either use wood heating, gas or reverse cycle air conditioning to heat their homes. Their is very little heating using radiators.

Originally Posted by Barry_White

Probably a waste of time and effort advertising radiator covers on an Aussie site. There wouldn't be enough radiators in Australia to even give you a weeks worth of work.

Most people here either use wood heating, gas or reverse cycle air conditioning to heat their homes. Their is very little heating using radiators.

Plus I think the freight for even a flat pack from Yorkshire would mean you could have something custom made out of timber locally for less, assuming of course you actually wanted a radiator cover. What the hell is a radiator cover anyway? Wouldn't a MDF box wrapped around a radiator be a fire hazard? :confused:

Mick

Mick

These are radiaters that usually have hot water circulating through them so they wouldn't be a fire hazard, but children could burn themselves on them because they can get fairly hot.

Okay, but still, a MDF box around a heat source is not going to promote your heat distribution at all is it? Plus I'd be worried about formaldehyde fumes from the heated board. Then again, what the hell do I know about heaters? We've got a woodstove that gets fired up maybe tent times a year, and half of that would be during the wet to try to drive some of the moisture out of the house.

Mick

Mick, you should go easy on him, after all he is probably just a bored sales man flooding the internet with adverts to his site.

On reflection I have to admit that I have noticed the presence of several pomgolians here on the board recently, so they may benefit from this advert.

Surely they mean to cover the radiator during the summer when it is not in use ? These are "decorative" covers maybe for decoupage etc.

These are fully fitted heater covers that stay on the radiator all year round. Their primary role is for the older style radiators - very large segmented jobs as opposed to the ones you now get that are a reasonably flush fitting flat style. They are designed to obscure the radiator but more importantly to prevent scolding as the old radiators are quite large and ran very hot.

The fronts are normally meshed in either wire or some form of fretwork and the tops lift up to allow greater flow of hot air.

They were quite common in the UK up to the 60's.

Oh, that sort of Radiator cover....

I thought some UK band had recorded a cover of one of the The Radiator's old songs.