In today’s video Jimmy The Plumber will be showing us how to pipe up a column radiator which has been hung on to plasterboard. As Jimmy mentioned at the beginning of this video, if you’re looking to see the video in which he hung the radiator to plaster, it can be found at    • How To Hang A Radiator On Plasterboard  

As for piping a radiator up, you can firstly see Jimmy explain what a drop down leg is (i.e. where a radiator is being fed from just a few radiators on the floor above). This is important as you’ll need to make sure you have parallel pipes coming down to feed the radiator at both sides. Jimmy shows us how to do this and also install a drain off on the radiator, in order to make any future drainage easy to do.

If you’re looking solely for guidance on drop down pipes, the 1:00 mark of the video is the best place to start. You can see how he mocks up where the valves will be and guides you through the best practice for getting valves set up.

Jimmy then explains where each pipe needs to go in the radiator and guides us through marking out where these pipes will need to be with a spirit level and why the pilot holes need to be made before we begin any soldering. You can then see Jimmy put more clips in place which are needed to correctly place our secondary pipe under the radiator.

If you want to know about fitting pipes and tips for making sure you do a good job of it, the 5:00 mark of the video has Jimmy guiding us through how he does it when installing radiators.

All the radiators used in the video are from http://www.traderadiators.com

If you'd like to see more videos of Jimmy installing radiators, you can check out videos from our How To Playlist at    • Trade Radiators Video Collection  

If you want to watch this video again then visit    • Learn How To Pipe A Radiator  

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