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New house has a chrome style radiator in the kitchen, it's got 7 vertical heated rectangular bars and it's about 1m in width and height.
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On full it's to hot to touch and there appears to be no transfer of heat to the wall (I've Even tried some reflective foil stuff)
I also cannot feel any radiated heat from the damm thing.
To my mind there is not enough surface area on the rad.
Anyone else ripped one of these out.
Paint it matt black. Sounds like a towel rail rather than something intended to heat a room but it will still be giving off heat, maybe more by convection than radiation.
Edit: I don't mean paint it matt black I mean 'murder it out'
Radiators don't actually radiate very much, they warm by convection so the air above it should be warm which then circulates around the room by convection currents which is also why you usually have rads under windows so you get a nice one going with the cold air coming off the window.
Don't towel rads usually have horizontal bars.
I can't feel any air moving around it at all.
Chrome is also a dreadful conductor compared to boggy white, I learnt this with towel rails my latest one is now white and conducts heat for far better.
http://www.industrytoday.co.uk/hvac/which-radiators-are-most-efficient/6968
That's makes sense Matt black and big surface area