Classic Cast Iron
When people talk about traditional radiators in the context of central heating they usually mean those cast iron column ones associated with Victorian or Edwardian times.
These are often still found in large old buildings of the same era or even earlier. They’re part of the décor and period feel of the property where some of the more modern radiators may look a little out of place.
When redecorating a property most people fall into the bracket of old romantic or ultra-modern contemporary.
That’s the pleasure of seeing friends in their home and seeing what they have achieved with their preferences. Street after street in the UK are terraced properties all built at the same time. One of the biggest building booms occurred in the nineteen thirties with sways of provincial London.
The vast majority of houses and others like them were not fitted with central heating systems for another forty or fifty years. And when they were they all bought the same flat white panel variety.
Cast iron radiators UK had been installed in older and grander properties and even today this type of radiator looks the part.
On the other hand, even with one of these old properties it’s still worth looking at some very contemporary new radiators as they can bring any property into a completely different time.
Cast iron antique style or ultra-modern graphite or mirrored, all radiators are there for one single purpose and that’s to keep the home warm.
If your boiler is fifteen years old and keeps playing up so you are regularly calling out the engineer, or if the radiators are rattling and leaking, you should grasp the bull by the horns and look at new.
The latest combination boilers are more efficient than ever and as old radiators could be furring up inside its better that a new boiler is fitted at the same time as new radiators.
It’s almost certain that if the boiler is old the radiators will be as well. They may even be older so take a look at traditional and contemporary new ones and imagine how they will look in your home.
