Removing Radiators in Our 1925 House

[@christopherchesaux3554]

Can't believe you guys took out these excellent source of radiant heat. I prefer these over any other form of heat for evenness, and how long they hold the heat. Scrap? Those are worth quite a bit if in working order. I just replaced one that was about $1100.

[@ATwistedPicot]

They were def. not in working order. I would have loved to keep them but believe me they were just the tip of our heating woes at the time. it took another 6 months to sort out decent heating. We tried to fix our radiators from the back end and front end. There was just no way to get them working again without breaking our backs. (by the way the guy at the end did slip his disk as a result of helping us get them out).

[@christopherchesaux3554]

@@ATwistedPicot Understood. Yeah, to fix and replace is quite the endeavor. I had to replace a large radiator in my living room and it broke a 1000lb dolly trying to get it in, but for some reason my friend was able to get it in within 10 mins. Got lucky.

[@emilychamberlain8854]

We are new to radiator care. I’ve been trying to learn how to flush the sludge. How did you do this? How did you get it to all drain out into buckets? All I’ve seen is removing the whole radiator and taking it out in the yard with a hose.

[@ATwistedPicot]

that is exactly the only way we could figure it out. It takes a pressure washer to get the sludge out. The radiator weight a crap ton! By the time we got them out of the house we were over trying to make them work. We have now decomissioned our radiators (they went to the junk man) and we are using a wood burning stove and mini-splits.

[@cathypearson1889]

Was the issue that they didn't work? I assume that means no heat would radiate out from it.

[@ATwistedPicot]

That was exactly the problem. In order to even make them work we had to disconnect, carry them out of the house and then pressure wash all of the poo colored sludge out. by the time we carried out the radiators we HATED them!! We called the scrap guy and he took them away. It is also our goal to convert to all electricity and solar power-the boiler system is natural gas.

[@cathypearson1889]

What are you putting in to replace it?

[@ATwistedPicot]

We Replaced them with mini splits. I will take you all on a post radiator removal tour this week!

[@christopherchesaux3554]

@@ATwistedPicot Sad

[@sjastram]

I hope you sold those decorative radiators instead of scrapping them

[@coreymishler6337]

Old ground Radiators vs microwave and too many broadcast wiring. Don't go cold for the winter. Beware of lead paint in water don't get sick

[@ATwistedPicot]

I think we are probably ok--David and I are both OLD! :) no kids around the house.

[@tedlahm5740]

absolutely do not remove the radiators.

[@ATwistedPicot]

too late they are gone. The system was oh so messed up. We could not fix them and by the time we had them outside for flushing there were human injuries. Additionally the boiler was natural gas. Oh so many reasons we decommisioned this particular item.