Hi,

Any tips on where to buy radiators at a reasonable price in BC?

Thanks

Bartle & Gibson.

They may be costly though, likley a special order item. Sub floor heating is coming in a bit now. Radiators are a thing of the past.

Radiators are an ugly addition to your decor. They’re really only good for overnight drying of your socks and smalls.

About 30 years ago I tore out the monster furnace in my basement, along with all the ductwork throughout the house. I did so because I was sick of the noise and the dust circulated by the warm air heating.


Then I called in a heating engineering outfit who installed a small gas fired hot water boiler-about 2'x2' footprint. The concealed heating pipes took up a fraction of the room the ugly ductwork did.


This system allowed accurate individual room temperature control, and I no longer got sore throats from dried out air.


I was offered pressed steel radiators from the UK and Germany, but I chose small, refurbished Canadian column radiators. Lovely.

I quite like radiators. Slimline ones are good in hallways. You can dry more than 'smalls' using them too

Colours can easily match or complement your decor. The big school type ones are kind of reassuring.

The only time they might not 'suit' is when they'be be on a wall that you'd like a sofa to be against, but that would likely be in a room where you could have a fireplace - real or other - anyway.

The various vents needed for other heating systems are not the prettiest things either mind (or even convenient) although they are more useful for cooling than radiators.

I disagree. I would love get rid of the noisy dust ducts. Give me a good old gas central heating system any day..