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1. Amazing Benefits of Flat Panel Radiators

   Sooner or later, people are recognizing the need of being eco-friendly and this has led to the rapid rise in the usage of Flat Panel radiators. If you desire to get one installed in your house, then you

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2. Designer Radiators With Different Styles

   Radiators are seen in every part of the United Kingdom and in every room, particularly designer radiators & designer towel radiators. If you're looking for a designer piece, then check our wide range

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3. When Space Is At a Premium: Small Bathroom Radiators

   Often the least capacious room in a home, the bathroom can prove a rather tricky space to heat. Finding precisely the right heating solution and where best to site it both come into play here – not least

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4. An Essential Buying Guide for Designer Radiators

   Looking to buy a new designer radiator to adorn your home? Then you’ve come to the right place!Buying new designer radiators for your room can be a bit of a minefield. Especially if this is your first

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5. Reasons Why Interior Design Lovers Go for Vertical Designer Radiators

   Are you a fan of great interior design? Do you love decorating your home with the latest must-have home décor trends? Are you always on the hunt for ways to refresh your interior spaces and move

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6. Keeping It Toasty: How Best To Heat A Kitchen?

   It's 50-50 on if the kitchen is the heart of your home or not. It can be constantly used and filled with members of the household, or it can be very rarely used, and only stepped in to make dinner or a

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7. Window Seat Designs For Your Home

   A window seat in your home can add to the beauty quotient while also instilling a soothing almost tranquil vibe. A window seat allows you to gaze at the beautiful outdoors all day long. You can enjoy the

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8. Designer Radiators Don't Have To be Boring!

   For many years, the choice of radiators was somewhat limited. Subsequently, in most houses we have functional radiators, keeping the house nice and warm but not really being a part of the room's design.

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9. Considering Buying Anthracite Radiators? Check Our Best Guide

   .vce-row-container .vcv-lozad {display: none} .vce-row-container .vcv-lozad {display: none} When it's time to invest in new radiators, you have plenty of great options to choose from, including a wide

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10. The Top Mirror Radiators And Why They’re Great For Your Space

    .vce-row-container .vcv-lozad {display: none} .vce-row-container .vcv-lozad {display: none} When we think of designer radiators it’s easy for our imaginations to stray into over the top radiators with

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11. How To Pick The Perfect Living Room Radiator

    .vce-row-container .vcv-lozad {display: none} It’s getting cold outside and you’re hoping to warm up with family and friends in the living room. Where do you start?With winter rearing its chilly head

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12. Add aesthetic nature at your home with designer radiators

    Radiators have been known to be used for the prime purpose of heating the home or the place where they are installed. But then just like times have changed, the uses of heaters have also changed. With

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13. Summer Heating Kits

    Heating Kits With DRD In this blog, we will be discussing the benefits of our heating kits and why they are important to your radiator and household. We are rapidly approaching the summer months here in

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14. Ultimate Radiator Accessories Buying Guide

    Radiator accessories are a rarely discussed part of owning and maintaining a radiator. Yet with such a vast selection of add-ons

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15. Should I Buy a Radiator Cover? Pros and Cons

     Radiator covers are a rarely discussed but popular accessory which help to conceal your radiator and, in some cases, add an extra dimension of usefulness to this part of your heating system.In this

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16. How to Replace a Single Radiator with a Double Radiator

    If you’ve been thinking of replacing your single panel radiators with double panel radiators to enjoy higher heat outputs or just for a different look, you might be wondering if this is something

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17. Does Painting a Radiator Make it More Efficient?

    With energy prices on the up and up, we’re all seeking new ways to get the most out of our horizontal radiators and keep our household bills in check. Is painting a radiator the key to making your old

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18. How to Find the Perfect Radiator for Your Kitchen

    Finding the perfect heat source for your kitchen can be overwhelming to say the least. From cool and contemporary vertical radiators to vintage-inspired column radiators, the amount of choice

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19. 5 Must-Have Radiator Accessories

    If those tired and old looking radiators are blighting the look and feel of your home, then you might be planning to upgrade your current radiators with something a little more modern.   Once

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20. Our Top Picks for Coloured Radiators

    Who says that radiators need to blend into the background? Recently, there has been a revival in the popularity of coloured radiators in homes across the UK with white radiators being replaced with colourful

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21. How to Paint Interior Walls Like a Pro

    Looking a doing a little DIY around the home? Then you’ll want to learn how to paint interior walls like a pro! Getting your walls ready with a professional finish is essential if you’ll be

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22. The Best Guide for Buying Cast Iron Radiators

    Make no mistake about it; cast iron radiators have been around for a very long time. First making an appearance in 1841, this new type of heating system was reserved for the rich, with most homes not enjoying

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23. How to Choose the Perfect Radiator to Catch the Eye of Your Guests

    There’s no denying that our homes serve as extensions of our personalities and individual tastes with many homeowners going to great lengths to create the perfect home décor scheme that tells visitors

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24. Top Heating Guide to Heat Your Conservatory

    Conservatories are a great way to add extra space to the home without the expense of an extension.Filled with light and decorated in a way that suits the interior design style of your choice, conservatories

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25. The Dilemma of Painting Your Old Radiator or Buying a New One

    Its DIY season once again and many of us are looking for ways to breathe new life into our home décor or update our colour scheme. In this blog, we will discuss whether you should paint a radiator or

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26. Want a Warm and Stylish Conservatory All Year Round? Wall Mounted Radiators Are the Best Choice

    .vce-row-container .vcv-lozad {display: none} .vce-row-container .vcv-lozad {display: none} Conservatories are a common sight in gardens all over the UK. Not only do they allow homeowners to add to the

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27. Our Top Tips to Choose the Best Radiator Brand When You’re Overwhelmed with Options

    With so many sites online selling designer radiators and electric radiators and all offering what seems like a good deal, how can you be sure that you're spending your hard-earned cash on the right product

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28. Is Your Kitchen Freezing in Winter? Check Our Top Five Kitchen Radiators

    The kitchen is the heart of any home, but it can be less than welcoming in the winter months if you don’t have any kitchen radiators to continually supply the room with warm air.Often one of the busiest

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29. Best Radiators For Under Window Use

    Look around any home, and you'll usually find a radiator nestled just beneath the window sill. Typically this is done to provide heat and warmth to an area which can often lose valuable heat,

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30. Moving Your Radiator Across The Room? No Problem!

    Renovating your home is a great way of showcasing your individual taste and style, so it’s no wonder that many homeowners undertake some form of DIY or home décor project at least once a year. Many

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31. Why painted radiators are just as good heat emitters

    There’s a myth that’s been circling the radiator world for many years now; it goes that the colour that a radiator is painted in affects its heat performance. But is it really true that the

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32. Top Ways To Hide a Radiator

    There has always been a danger of radiators sticking out like sore thumbs. Whilst designer radiators are designed to be eye catching, discreet models can still stand out a little too much if you haven’t

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33. Bathroom Heating Installation: What's Needed

    When it comes to choosing your bathroom heating, there are a whole host of decisions and choices to be made to ensure you get the right heating system for your own specific bathroom. Once you have decided

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34. Childproofing Radiators

     Young children are always accident prone with home radiators. also, with stairs, kitchen appliances and plug sockets, you already have your hands full when it comes to ensuring your children’s

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35. Why Hallway Radiators Are So Important

    Hallways are often forgotten about in the interior design world. They are neither here nor there, literally. The hallway acts as a link to another room and does not in itself serve a purpose, so when you

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36. Space Saving Radiators For Your Home

    Finding a radiator which suits your home is easier said than done. It’s even harder to find one which makes the most out of limited space.In most homes these days you’ll find that space is a real issue.

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37. What Valve is Best For You? Manual Or Thermostatic Valves

      When it comes to maintaining your radiator, valves are small but intrinsic parts of the process. These small angular tap-like devices are there to control what comes in and out of your radiator.

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38. A Brief Guide To The Different Radiator Finishes Out There

    Whether you’re looking for a new radiator to up the warmth or for a style makeover for your property, there’s a whole universe out there to choose from.It can often be overwhelming, the amount of choice,

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39. The Value Of Valves: Choosing The Right Valves For Your Heated Towel Rail

    To be fair, one of the last things homeowners think about when they’re looking to purchase heated towel rails for their central heating system is the valves they’ll need to select along with them.

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40. What’s The Point Of Radiator Covers?

    Radiator covers are like marmite, there are two camps when it comes to their usefulness. Radiator covers have been coveted and reviled in equal measure. With many heating experts claiming they sap away

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41. Horizontal Or Vertical Radiators

    .vce-row-container .vcv-lozad {display: none} Let’s face it; it’s not easy making a start on choosing the ideal radiator for a room in your home – principally because you may not know where to start.

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42. The Only Guide You’ll Ever Need For Painting Radiators

    Painting radiators is much unlike any other household painting job. It just isn’t the same as painting walls, skirting boards or even doors: there is a lot more to it than that. When you decide

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43. National Radiator Day: Time To Show Some Love

    You might be surprised to know that there is one day in the year that is entirely dedicated to remembering and celebrating our domestic radiators! In the UK each year thousands of people buy

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44. The Only Radiator Valve Guide You’ll Need

    The Necessity Of Radiator Valves Choosing to invest in a spanking new radiator is a wonderful idea as it’s something we all use on a daily basis, especially in the chillier months. Many of us overlook

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45. Great Routes To A Dog Friendly Home

    Homes and Dogs can lead to mess and chaos. Like having a young child, if you have a dog there are some steps you must take to make sure that the house itself is dog friendly. If they can get into that

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46. To Cover Or Not To Cover - Should I Invest In A Radiator Cover?

    If you’ve been to our website Designer Radiators Direct, you’ll know that radiator designs can come in all shapes and sizes. And whilst we focus on making yours fit in with your home through

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47. Hefty Hallway Radiator Heating And How To Find Your Hot Spot

    It’s a Monday morning in mid-January. The pigeons outside are cooing and you can hear the rhythmic beep of the rubbish truck doing its daily rounds. You haven’t had a relaxing weekend, full of DIY

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48. Comfortable Living: Choosing The Right Radiator For Your Living Room

    Searching for, selecting and purchasing a radiator for your living room isn’t necessarily an easy task. Sometimes it can feel downright onerous. Why so? Well, it’s seductive to assume you’ll need

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49. What is a TRV?

    There are, what seems to be, an endless list of parts, numbers, figures, and acronyms to learn when it comes to your radiator. It's hard to keep up with it all, but we're here today to offer you a helping

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50. Summer Heating Kits

    We are rapidly approaching the summer months here in the UK, and even though we’re still experiencing some freak days of cold weather, we are beginning to see gorgeous sunny spells in measured doses.When

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