Hi,
Does anyone know of a source for Twin Entry Radiator Valves -  seems these
were common in the 80's when our London Docklands apartment was built. The
existing radiators are in good condition and working well, but the same
can't be said of the microbore (8mm) TRV's. Even though I'm already
redecorating and painting, I'm not looking forward to replacing 5 radiators,
so I do hope the group can help.

Regards
Daniel

I asked the same question on here about 1.5  years ago with no joy. I
have or had 8mm microbore radiator valves which had the flow and return
going into the same valve. I have very nearly completed re-piping them
to a more common configuration after replacing all the radiators in the
house. I have found this very easy to do. Microbore is very flexible
especially the soft copper you can get today, seems more flexible than
the old stuff I had in my place, which was built in 1896.

If you dont find anything on here you could just change your pipework
to the more common configuration of flow at one end and return on the
other and buy new radiator valves/lockshields and keep your rads.
Simply join a new length of pipe from the existing pipework using a
compression coupler (whatever the correct name is!) drill a hole in the
floor near the valve depending on your setup and connect it all up. You
will need a reducing set if you go for 15mm valves which I found were
more avaialble.

The reducing set fits inside the valve and works a treat, finish it all
off with rad snaps and jobs a good 'un

Of course you may not want to take up a floorboard if you have them
that is!

Anyway HTH

Cheers

Richard

r.rain@btinternet.com wrote:

> I asked the same question on here about 1.5  years ago with no joy. I
> have or had 8mm microbore radiator valves which had the flow and return
> going into the same valve. I have very nearly completed re-piping them
> to a more common configuration after replacing all the radiators in the
> house. I have found this very easy to do. Microbore is very flexible
> especially the soft copper you can get today, seems more flexible than
> the old stuff I had in my place, which was built in 1896.
> 
> If you dont find anything on here you could just change your pipework
> to the more common configuration of flow at one end and return on the
> other and buy new radiator valves/lockshields and keep your rads.
> Simply join a new length of pipe from the existing pipework using a
> compression coupler (whatever the correct name is!) drill a hole in the
> floor near the valve depending on your setup and connect it all up. You
> will need a reducing set if you go for 15mm valves which I found were
> more avaialble.
> 
> The reducing set fits inside the valve and works a treat, finish it all
> off with rad snaps and jobs a good 'un
> 
> Of course you may not want to take up a floorboard if you have them
> that is!
> 
> Anyway HTH
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Richard
> 



Do you mean valves like this:

http://tinyurl.com/asr5x

If so, Plumb Centre appear to have them online (product number 890200):

http://www.plumbcenter.co.uk/plumb/default.html

Cheers,
Grant

They are exactly what *I* was looking for!

Oh well.... I like my new TRV4 valves! :)

Cheers

Richard