With the exciting choices of radiators
today including revolutionary designs and colours with themes from antique to
retro, conventional to contemporary there is a need to choose the valve that
looks best for each style.
Most modern radiator manufacturers will
point out that since their modern designs look best standing alone on the wall
it makes sense to bury unsightly pipes. This usually means hiding the pipes in
the wall just as electrical wiring is hidden.
Fortunately there are hundreds of radiator valves to choose from and with
steel, brass, chrome and other metals to choose from there will always be something
for the radiator of your choice.
Antique or retro radiators will normally
benefit from an equally aged brass or bronze valve, perhaps quite bulky and
obvious just as the original ones were a hundred years ago.
Modern sleek stainless steel panel radiators
on the other hand will benefit from an equally sleek and
discreet stainless steel valve. In this case there are small, square and oval
shaped varieties that will look good here.
This kind of valve seems to be far more
popular these days than the wall mounted thermostat control fitted into the
wall of the room but whichever system is used it really is important with the
rising costs of fuel and in particular gas, that rooms rarely used should have
enough temperature just to keep off the chill on very cold days.
The obvious rooms for maximum heat are the
bathroom and the sitting room. The bedroom should be kept at a comfortable but
not hot temperature as it is better for health reasons to be breathing cool air
at night.
Just like some people cannot tolerate
air-conditioning even in the hottest climates the same can be said about
central heating. In both cases it is the extremes of walking in and outside
that results in the body having to work harder to adjust.
Thermostats on individual radiators are the
perfect way to control room temperature and where older or infirm people are
concerned the other consideration is an easy to turn control.
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