Apologies for subject content 😳

Here at C_G Towers, I need to remove some ghastly wallpaper from behind a radiator. How can I do this without removing radiator and, er quickly, cos I really need to ride my bike to alleviate this boredom 🙂

Thank you so much!

you'll never see it behind the radiator anyway
go ride

With difficulty…unless you can just wet it and pull it off (vicar!).

Pulling a rad off is not difficult though and v satisfying to do the job properly.

If you dont take the radiator off what are you going to replace it with?

Getting it off would be tricky depending on size and location od said radiator, painting or papering would be pretty much impossible!

Should be easy to take off.

Gosh – such quick replies 😀

Thanks for suggestions but radiator is too big for me to lift off. Perhaps some improvisation is called for – I know, I can go ride my bike and think of something 😉

if you drain the rad in situ (shut off valve and lockshield, open bleed screw, un screw compression nut at one end, catch icky water in baking tray, replace with other baking tray when full etc etc) then it will be much lighter and you can lift it off its mounts one at a time and walk it across the floor.

(dont forget to close bleed screw when refilling rad and bleeding system, and PTFE tape back on the compression fitting)

Or open the front door in your underwear and find a passing gentleman to help you 🙂

Or open the front door in your underwear and find a passing gentleman to help you

That never works for me 😳

Make a radiator cover to conceal the rad and offending paper from, say, a bicycle box. Do remember to remove the shiny new bike from the box first, and ride it to get it muddy so no-one knows you have another new bike.

Simples!

Yep, just drain the rad and take it off. It's the best and easiest way.

Take it off – its not that difficult

Close the main valve and the other (balance?) valve and remove – have plenty of old cothes about and small pans / containers (apologies plumbers that's how I do it!)

As others have said taking it off is the best way but we have a massive double radiator in our old house that was impossible for one person to lift off so to presume it will be easy to take off when drained is wrong.

With soaking and a scraper on a stick you will get the paper off with the rad in situ but if you are papering again then you won't get a neat job done with it in place.

If I was papering I'd take it off, but if its a big rad you will need help as you might rip the bracket off the wall trying it yourself.

set fire to it from the bottom, so it burns upwards?

any suggestion involving fire gets more marks imo.

or get it good and wet then scrub it off?
or paper over it?
or paint over it?
or paint over it then paper over it?

set fire to it from the bottom, so it burns upwards?

PMSL!

Or you could simply paper over everything hiding the rad behind kerwality anaglypta!

I knocked out the wall to do this once.
Papering each brick as I put them back was a right pain.

I was in a brothel once fixing the errr plumbing and was informed the decor was so bad they had decided to sell-up!

1) wallpaper – get you!
2) if you don't like it just buy a different house with some you do

Buy one of those reflective foil things that go behind radiators.

This will cover up the wallpaper you can't reach AND reflect heat back into the room, thus saving you money.

You either get a wallpaper scraper with a long handle or you loosen the nuts at each end of the radiator about half a turn then lift the radiator off it's hanger and rotate it out into the room resting it on a pile of something. Nip up the nuts so they don't weep.

Nip up the nuts so they don't weep.

WARNING: this does not work on men

simonfbarnes – Member

Nip up the nuts so they don't weep.

WARNING: this does not work on men

Now THAT'S funny! 😆

Although you should apply compound to their bare ends

'Matron take them away!'

😀 Thanks for such entertaining replies guys!! Just what I needed today!!

Most sensible suggestion is the foil one so thanks for that, will just be painted. As regards the others … well … nipping the nuts sounds a hoot 😉

Cheers 8)

nipping the nuts sounds a hoot

and CG's dateability plummets 🙁

and CG's dateability plummets

Just teasing 😉

Laughing out-loud at SFB…..and assuning he does not have a trade account at B & Q 😉

and assuning he does not have a trade account at B & Q

assune what you like Clare – I know more than I care to recall about plumbing, wiring, joinery etc, but was released from that when my marriage ended :o)