Save money fit reflective foil behind radiator, WITHOUT draining
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Save money on your heating Bills by fitting reflective foil to the wall behind your heating radiators, particularly important on exterior, outside walls. 
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how is this without draining when you remove the radiator?
Loving the mock spiders. Nice touch :)
And thanks for sharing, too.
You don't have to remove the radiator to fit the foil, I've just done the whole house (8 radiators) in a day
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I would try and avoid draining the radiator and introducing new water into the system, especially in hard water areas can reduce the life of steel radiators. Try and work from the top down by slitting the insulation and sliding / working it down the back of the rad.
U do not have to remove to fit this
All homes should have these behind rads I've got these weird plastic shaped pad behind rads in council property
Especially, what is annoying, and it consume money for nothing, is the fact that this is most inappropriate way of heating or energy consuming process: it heats first cooper pipes from the direct flame than the pipe heat water (or whichever fluid is) than this medium heats aluminum radiator. That is 3 conversion, which makes loss of energy, no matter how inexpensive is domestic heating gas. Most usable way of heating in terms of cost-efficiency-gain is simple electric heater, but the one as we are using here in most of the Balkan area. So called TA (Thermo accumulated) heater, very heavy heat appliance with ceramic bricks inside. It store heat energy inside bricks during night, and during the day, when is necessary, it blows heat outside with fans. Here, among the other convenient way of heating source as gas, coal, wood etc. this one is pretty widespread.
And, of course, this is applicable where electric power has affordable price.
vs splitting atoms to boil water to make electricity which is "piped" over many miles to a substation, then to your house? I'll stick with gas for heating and use the higher quality energy where it's needed.
You're wrong, at least when it comes to the UK. In the UK you pay 0.14p per kWh of heating electricity. For gas it's 0.038p. Even with a terrible efficiency of 50% (conversion/heat losses) that's still only 0.076p per kWh of heat when using gas. So to use electricity it'd still cost TWICE as much as natural gas with an old boiler. I'm fed up with those ridiculous claims from electric radiator manufacturers that due to the 100% conversion efficiency of electricity they're cheaper to run....it's absolute rubbish and spreading misinformation/terribly false advertising which preys on people's ignorance! Modern condensing boilers are up to 94% efficient, and most of the losses in heat transfer get lost....inside the house where the heat is needed. Even without considering the less than perfect efficiency etc gas is still a tiny fraction of the cost of electricity. The exception may be when considering bulk gas, in which case it would still likely be cheaper to use bulk gas (or almost equal to that of a heat pump using electricity).
Remove the radiators,that's a bit much.
Far better easier way's for the public to carry out this job.
Cut to size and use double sided tape.
Obviously you've drained the rad carefully,and if you've a combination boiler you may need to check the water pressure gauge on the boiler after bleeding the air out of the system,you may need to add water,at the boiler ..quite simple to do yourself ...
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Don't remove your radiator that is crazy. Most radiators have room to place insulation behind it while its in place.
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