Radiator Valve Tail 15mm x 1/2" BSP (2 Pack)

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Radiator tail extensions are made from brass and tend to have a polished chrome finish. The colour shouldn’t have any impact on the colour of your pipe sleeves and valves as the extension sits in the same place as your valve body. What sizes do radiator tail extensions come in? Draining the system and adding some jointing compound or PTFE tape is the next level to fix a radiator that is leaking. This is a lot harder but needs to be done. Someone would need a radiator tail extension when their radiator cannot attach securely to the pipework. If this doesn’t work, you should add some plumbing jointing compound to the threads on the leaking nut. I have yet to refit the radiator and fill with water which will be the ultimate test, however I happened to notice that the nut of the radiator tail bound slightly when it was rotated around the tube of the radiator tail, which was not the case before I make it up ??You should definitely get a leaking radiator valve fixed as soon as possible, as water damage can really mess things up if left for any length of time. Can a leaking radiator valve cause boiler pressure to drop?

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Refit the tail and tighten with an adjustable spanner (make sure it’s very tight or it will leak, add more PTFE if it’s not tight enough) Do you have to screw the tail in until the entire threaded section of the tail is screwed into the rad? You’ll have to drain the central heating system before removing a valve can. Draining’s fairly simple with a combi boiler system (without a water cylinder), but if yours relies a conventional water cylinder system, you may need professional help to successfully and safely drain it. Undoing the compression and union nutsIn my experience, a radiator valve leaking when turned off is usually on ancient radiator valves that are worse for wear and should probably be replaced. Leaking radiator valve If you have a radiator valve leaking when turned off, then you could try opening the valve slightly to see if it stops. You shouldn’t need to get a new valve as a tail extension aims to complete the connection. In very rare cases where the extension still doesn’t quite make the connection as desired, you may want to get a radiator reducer to help measurements match up. What brands make high-quality radiator tail extensions? You might need to replace the head of the valve that the washer sits on which you take from another valve. With the radiator removed from the wall, I cleaned out the 1/2" BSP tails on the radiators using a round wire brush. This allowed me to remove the old remaining PTFE tape together with some slight rust.

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Assumign I have read your question correctly, I can't for the life of me fathom how you could have distorted the valve end of the tail while doing up the radiator end. Still, on the assumption that the valve end is a compression fitting, I'd wager that if you can still get a nut and olive on, and if you can still get the end of the tail into the valve, it'll seal just fine. If you want to be paranoid about it, wrap some PTFE around the fitting face of the olive. As has been said above, it'll either leak or it won't. If it seals, it seals. So, pragmatically, your options are: They tend to get crushed or pushed into the valve and can be a nightmare trying to remove the old washer. Here I’ll show you how to fix a leaking radiator valve from my on-the-job experiences. Where is the Radiator Valve Leaking From? Leaking Radiator Valve Nut

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I first inserted the new radiator tails in the ends of the radiator dry to gauge how far it they would go when tightened up. Consider the size of the room, as larger spaces will likely require radiators with a higher heat output or maybe even multiple radiators in some cases. If unsure, try our heating calculator, which will help narrow down your search. A thermostatic radiator valve leaking water from the pin has to be replaced, but if you want a temporary fix, you could try turning the radiator off when it leaks, as this might help until you replace the radiator valve. Yes, a leaking radiator valve can be repaired. It might have to be replaced, but most of the time a leaking radiator valve can easily be repaired with an adjustable spanner. Is a leaking radiator valve an emergency? To fix a leaking radiator drain valve, you will need to replace the rubber washer seal inside in most cases.

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Once you have found exactly where the leak is coming from it should be a case of tightening the nut. Whilst screwing in the tail, it got quite tight after around five. revolutions. I turned it further, until it felt nearly tight enough, but the drain off section of the valve was not vertical. I turned it a little more, but it got very tight and now the drain off section was even further off vertical. I probably could have turned it further, but was worried about damaging something.

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I have been fitting and fixing radiators full-time for over a decade and have learned a lot along the way. The rubber washer seal on a radiator drain valve normally gets damaged by over-tightening it when closing. It really doesn’t need to be that tight, as it’s rubber. Radiator drain valve with inner removed Knowing how to fix a leaking radiator valve will help you save money but you might need to replace it. I started to make up the tail using a 16mm ring spanner - approx 8" long. With about 3 threads to go I needed to switch to a 10" Bacho adjustable wrench to tighten the tail all the the way up. It took a bit of force, but nothing which felt excessive, albeit this is first time that I have fitted radiator tails. On removing the tail I then applied 6-7 wraps of Loctite 55 to the lower half to the radiator tail crossing the threads as I went, rather than following the thread grooves, as per the Loctite 55 instructions.