Modern radiators are efficient, easy to maintain, and ghastly. We found a manufacturer in Coventry that makes cast iron ones from period casts and, while we couldn’t afford exactly the ones we wanted, we did pretty well buying some clearance priced display models. The big one up top is late Victorian for our living room and the two below are for the bedrooms.
They weigh a bit more than we counted on and at a meter long they posed the problem of how to move them upstairs whilst keeping them level (the fittings between segments are somewhat fragile). I built a rig for the trailing end to balance on a stair and we moved upward one step at a time:
As mentioned in the wood floor post put up earlier, we delayed work on it because of things like the radiators that required pulling up boards left undisturbed for 113 years.
The living room heating needed to be rerouted and the bedrooms needed shorter and longer sections put in.
When installed, the previous radiators went over some dreadful wallpaper:
As did the ones in the bedrooms (Jackie really likes this one, though):
I was especially impressed with how well the device was centred on the window:
Rated at a bit higher thermal output, the smaller heater is just under the windowsill where a cat, when we get one, will certainly spend a lot of time.
Global warming means that we might get more than 5 or 6 days of Summer heat that merit some extra cooling. So, in our bedroom and the living room we installed ceiling fans. I needed to put in some reinforcement before mounting the beasts which involved more intrusion into the floor:
It works well and despite being fairly modern it seems to go with the mid-century furniture we hope to collect once we finish up all the detail work around the place.
Endless British Pub Crawl (Part 3) 