How-To’s

As with any other appliance in your home, your radiators sometimes need maintenance. Whether you’re changing the valves, upgrading the look of your home, or are redecorating multiple rooms in the house and need to get behind the radiators, you...

How to Replace a Radiator Bleed Valve

If your radiators are feeling a little cold to the touch or are making clunking sounds as they warm up, there could be trapped air inside. Read our guide on how to replace a faulty radiator bleed valve below.

Top Tips For Heating Your Home In Spring

We’ve put together some of our top tips for heating your home in spring to help get your system ready for the long summer months of little use and also how to make small changes around your home over spring,...

How does a radiator thermostat work?

There are two different ways you can control the temperature of your radiators. One way is to install thermostatic radiator valves (also known as TRVs) and the other is to use a smart thermostat that can control the radiators individually....

How To Cover Radiator Pipes

There are a variety of different ways to conceal radiator pipes in your home so that they are safe and out of sight. Read on to learn how to cover hot radiator pipes.

How To Clean White Radiators

There are plenty of easy ways to clean your radiators so read on to learn how to make radiators white again and how to clean towel radiators. It is important to check your manufacturer warranty, if it is still in...

A Guide to Painting Radiator Pipes

We are here to help you choose the right paint for your radiators pipes, including, teaching you how to apply it and offering some great alternative solutions. Find out more below.

How To Clean a Radiator With a Top Grill

Performing some DIY radiator cleaning on any radiator with a top grill is really easy and can be done in a few simple steps with only a few tools. Find out more here.

How To Fit A Towel Radiator

If you’ve recently treated yourself to a heated towel radiator and want to give fitting it yourself a go, we’ve created this complete guide to help you along the way.

How To Stop Radiators From Rusting and Corroding

We have prepared a one stop guide to help you deal with rusting and corroding within your heating system and radiators.

How To Turn a Radiator Off

Depending on your needs, you can choose to either turn off a radiator or isolate it completely. If you’re not sure how or what the difference between those two is, look no further than this guide!

The Ultimate Guide to Radiator Materials

The types of radiators and choice of materials can have a significant impact on your heating system, from anything to the cost of running and cost of purchasing, to the environmental impacts and efficiency of heating your home.

How to Fix a Leaking Radiator

Leaking radiators are not only frustrating and damaging to your home, but unknown to most, the issue can sometimes be remedied quite easily and with very little cost.

How to remove a radiator for decorating

Removing a radiator for decorating can seem like a daunting task, but it really is quite simple. Not only is it simple, but if we take advantage of this process, it allows us to knock some money off of our...

The Ultimate Guide to Radiator Valves

Radiator valves are crucial bits of kit for any heating system due to the very important role they play in regulating the heat your radiator puts out. You might be thinking that valves are just standard elements that go on the...

The Simple Guide to Balancing Radiators

While it might seem like you have some radiators not working in your home, the real source of the problem could lie in the heat distribution in your system or in your radiators. That’s where balancing radiators comes in.

How to change a radiator valve

When it comes to maintaining your household appliances, it might be tempting to reach for the phone and get an engineer round. But before you sell yourself (and your wallet!) short, let us show you just how easy it can...

How to Bleed a Radiator

Have you ever wondered how to bleed a radiator or why your radiator isn’t working as well as it usually does? Well you’re in the right place. At UK Radiators, we’ve bled our fair share of radiators, and are here...

What you should know before painting a radiator

Painting radiators might seem like a fun DIY project to take on, and an easy way to spruce up an old radiator. However, when it comes to painting your radiator, things aren’t as simple as they might seem. Painting a...

Simple Guide For Fixing A Leaking Radiator

Few things are more annoying than a leaking radiator. Installed flush against the walls, we often forget that they are even there, diligently heating our home, until we tread barefoot into a patch of wet carpet spreading from beneath. Fortunately,...

Basic Radiator Problem Solving: 5 Issues Your Radiators Might Be Having

For the most part, central heating radiators tend to be low-maintenance affairs. When things do go wrong, they are usually easy to identify and fix without calling in an expert.