How To Replace A Towel Rail

My most used tools are available here! https://amzn.eu/d/0aC1vWqc ____________________________ Welcome back to the channel today’s video customers called me out because their towel rail is about to fall off the wall and cause a major problem. One out of four fixings is completely snapped and the other three are hanging on for dead life so we’re gonna be replacing his old towel out for a nice shiny new one. because there’s no drain points on the system I’ve had no option but to drain from the towel itself so we start by taking him off the wall and the valves simply turn off both valves and open up the air vent if there’s no constant water coming out then we know that those radiator valves are holding. Because these ones are behaving themselves, I’m choosing to use my kit from Derblaue which allows me to catch every single drop using the splash guards and the foldable tub. I can crack the nut and allow the water to come out and wear my tub fills up I used to pump to pump up the water to an outlet which a toilet is the closest for me because the heating system is dirty Always flushed the toilet now and again so it doesn’t stain! With the old rail removed, we could take off the bracket of the wall and start making the new valves on the new Towel rail, I like to use liquid thread locker from xpro as this gives the best finish, but this can only be used on a brand brand-new in store where we have no moisture as it works with zero oxygen. The cure time to fill up is probably about 20 minutes give or take I’ve never had a problem using it and my method is to cover order threads with my finger to get enough on and then we can wipe it off all the excess leaving a perfect finish. It’s time to drain a system first thing first is to turn off the boiler as this will stop it running when the system is under pressure. I did use a little pipe and fitting in the top of the valve on a hose pipe to get rid of all the water out the system. And once the flow of water stops, I can remove the old valves and replaced with the new ones. The nuts were so tight on the left-hand side but I had to bring out the big guns and use some big spanners and wrenches just to be able to undo it but lucky for me the olive came off nice and easy using my normal grips method. A quick bit of paste on the new olives and we can install the new valves with no worries as we do have a little bit of play on the pipe Work. with the new valves connected I decided to hang the new radiator on the top existing holes as they would be more likely to be on show if I had to drill them, A marked out the new whole location as the bottom fixings landed right in the middle of a rail. I’ve got these brackets all levelled up nicely using my light up LED level from Franklin sensors I was lucky to find Tim studs to screw it to the wall. With the radiator fully hung It’s just a case of tightening the valves and installing the blank and bleed vent. Make sure that you turn this off though as we don’t want to leave anything open when we fill up. the new valves can be operated without a tool so the owner can do it by hand. I like to always leave these valves off when filling just allow me to monitor and test for leaks when I’m actually by the radiator itself. Everything filled up nicely got the heating back on and it’s good to show you everything working using my thermal imaging camera flir. this gives a good representation of what’s going on in the system and also a great visual for yourselves to see what’s going on. I hope you like today’s video if you’ve got a towel rail that you need to replace in the future then you may be able to give it a go yourself following what I’ve done in this video if you’re new to the channel, please give me a subscribe like the video comment down below any different and I’ll see you on the next one!