With consideration for the above, you can confidently make a selection that best utilises space, complements your decor, and meets your heating requirements.

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My logic for applying it to the first of the threads up to half way, was to prevent the Loctite 55 from being visible once the radiator tail was fitted. If your radiator is leaking water from the panel, then you will most likely need to replace the radiator. In 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.James - many many thanks - one very last question - when I said the lower half, sorry, I meant the first of the threads up to half way. Imperial pipes and fittings are sized according to the bore of the pipe, rather than the outside diameter. The liquid PTFE is vital on towel rail rads where the threads in the rad tend only to be a couple of threads deep and there's little to seal onto. A leaking lockshield valve can be fixed quite easily when it is leaking from the packing gland on the top of the valve.

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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. Trade Radiators are proud to offer the best quality, and value, radiators, towel radiators, electric radiators and radiator valves available on the web.You might need to replace the head of the valve that the washer sits on which you take from another valve.