How to isolate a radiator. ( Turn it off ) 

I've been coming back to this video about twice a year for the last 5 years! thank you mate absolute legend!👌🏻😬

5 yrs on and this is still actually so helpful, Thank You

My radiator in my rental property just started leaking and when I reported it he tried to explain turning the other side off until someone can get here tomorrow. I could not figure out what in the world he was trying to tell me but this was so clear on how to turn off both sides until it can be fixed. Thank you so much! As someone who did not grow up with radiators they are confusing and a bit scary. So thanks for posting this video!

Awesome video - bathroom swimming in water and the plumber we called this morning never showed up. Finally realized I needed to attempt the job myself. This helped immeasurably. Thank you so much for taking the time to put this up.

You sir are an absolute hero! I'm not at all DIY savvy and my radiator was leaking something fierce. Thanks to you I've stemme the flood.

Posting on my wife's account. Brilliant video, simply excellent. A previous tenant hadn't reported a hole in our bedroom radiator, so when we got a little cold the other night and turned it on....yeah, pretty much as you'd think. I was rummaging around in the middle of the night trying shut the property's water off, and now in the bright light of day this gentleman shows us how to turn the radiator off with a screwdriver and pliers. Fantastic.

Thank you so so much, Al! An 'easy to understand' video, straight to the point and sound advice! You've saved my bedroom floor/kitchen ceiling from being completely destroyed! Keep up the great work!

Awesome video, you saved our kitchen floor on boxing day morning, when there were no plumbers or handy mates to call. Much kudos to you!

What a lovely guy, really helpful video.

Really lovely guy, so reassuring! I get panicky about this kind of stuff, but this video has calmed me right down. Thank you!

You are a star thanks for the video , I had leaking radiator that I managed to sort at midnight on a Sunday thanks to your videos !

Thank you so much for this 🙏🏼 I must say that you are the BEST for all these problems,you explain everything so clearly and,easy to follow 👌🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

God bless you sir, my bedroom radiator kept leaking and I didn't know how to counteract and stop the leaking until watching this video. I will fully remove the heater from my room in a few days as I no longer use it, you've more than earned my like and subscription

Had to isolate a leaky rad tonight, thank goodness for this video on how to sort it..thank you.

Many thanks. You've just exposed the old man's trick of turning off rads. Saved me £50

January 2024 and I’m back on your channel again, fabulous advice as always.. you must have save a whole load of misery for so many people. Thanks so much🙏👏👏

Thank you for your video. Very useful as just been called out for a leaking radiator and as an electrician this was not covered in college

My arthritis was killing me, thank you brother.

Water everywhere!!! Plumber.....well, its been two weeks and he is still not here?. Followed the video and can breathe again....Thank you!!! (Really, thank you!!)

Its 1.32am and we needed this to stop our radiator flooding our living room . Thanks. ❤🖒

Thank you so much for your video. The spare room radiator was leaking from under the thermostat so if it wasn't for your easy to follow instructions to isolate the radiator 👍🏻

Your a life saver 5 am and I fall downstairs and radiator come off the well thanks bud

Thank you so much! I’ve drained our leaking radiator thanks to this very helpful video 👌 x

The best videos! my first go to when my flat plumbing goes up the spout!

Saved me from what could of been a very nasty leak, thank you!!!

Your videos are really good, I like the fact you make them so anyone can understand them. Thanks😊👍👍👍👍👍

Thank you very much! My radiator was slightly warm even though the main valve was in "zero". After closing both valves in the pipes it went cold like the other radiators in the flat.

He just needs a mustache and he would be the real mario. Been very helpful in all videos 10/10

thank you, just managed to stop the water flowing out of a tiny hole in the plastic radiator pipe

Simple and sweet, you saved a carpet today Thanks

Super hero 1am in the morning and flooded floor thank you so much for your helpful video

Great plumbing videos as always!

Great stuff. Easy to understand tips and info. Keep up the good work to save us stupidos. 😉👍

Thanks, helped me with my Mum's leaking radiator.

Thanks! Crisis averted. Much appreciated

Thanks Al another quick easy video thanks to the plumber who isolated and forgot to turn it back on... can't get the staff these days haha

Thank you sooooo much this sorted my troubles this morning !!!!

Fantastic video, thanks so much for your help, wishing you well 👍

Brilliant, THANK YOU!, Thought I was going to have to build an ark until I saw your video, TY TY TY..

Didn't even think to turn the other side hahah thanks!!

Thanks a lot, clear and to the point, absolute gentleman!

Thanks again - your videos are lifesavers!

This was very helpful thank you

I come back to this video every winter cause the super turns on the heat super high so it feels like a sauna & I always forget what way to turn it lol

Thank you! Clear and perfect!

Always useful info.

Your a helpful person

Cheers - going away tomorrow, leaking radiator. Just saved me a fortune on an emergency plumber.

Very good. Well explained with no bullshit!

Thank you - clear instructions and explanation 👍

Thank you mate this is just what I needed

One thing with lock shields, remember how many turns it took to turn it off. As when you turn it back on wide open you will throw all the balancing out and end up with the rad taking all the heat, leaving all your other rads tepid until the trv turns it off when that rooms warmed up,

Thanks dude. Top fella

Thanks pal, now armed with the knowledge to rehang my rad, good man

Really appreciate this, thankyou

Absolute HERO! Thanks so much mate!

three houses, eight raidiators, and 6 years after finding this video, the first part makes me piss myself every single time.

Thanks for this video. I didn't know there was valve on both sides soon as I turned the other one it stopped

Brilliant thanks so much. So clear and helpful. Legend.

Very useful, thank you.

Hi Thank you for this video. I have a towel rail without air bleed valve and it has a small leak on one of the top corners even though I have turned off valves that you have shown in this video. Is there anything else I can do? Thanks again for the informative videos you put on.

This just saved my life

Brilliant video thanks 🙏

Great video, very informative thank you. Any cons to shutting the radiator off to avoid excess heat output?

concise and informative, great video!

Thanks Alot mate this professional video and I mean that helped me alot

Will turning the valve round isolate it or do I need to take the top off and do the last step?

That was exactly what I needed to know 👌 thank you 😉

Thanks! Our radiator pipe on back wall has broken. Flooding every time we use the hot water. Will try thus later and hopefully it does isolate the radiator slash stop the leak when the pressure is on. Atleast unt😢we can fix it. Il update if it works for the reason I'm trying to temporarily use it for. Can't bath or shower rn and it's not cool lol ( woman on partners account)

Thank you, top bloke 👍

Great vid lovely personality 😊

Thank you for your video! I want to turn on the radiator in other bedrooms not the master bedroom. However, the main switch (with a screen) for my home’s radiators is in the master bedroom and so the radiator in the master bedroom has no temperature valves. Is it safe to use pliers to screw the head of the valve so that the radiator will not turn on when I turn on the main switch?

Brilliant video. Thank you.

Thanks your videos are really useful.

Helped me out tonight teenage daughter fell over and ripped the radiator off the wall lol

Thanks for all your great content. I want to treat my boiler heat exchangers. Can you isolate all the rads by turning off at both ends as you describe, in order to introduce a descaling treatment into just one open radiator to circulate through the combi bolier?

Thanks for posting, perfect, cheers!

You're a life saver!!

Thank you very much sir

Thank you so much this was so helpful❤️

Thanks Uncle Great Video

Great video just to confirm to turn rad off is clockwise and to turn on Is anticlockwise? Thanks

I did as you taught in the video. But still it is not getting hot. Is it controlled by the main switch? My house owner controls it all from her room.

Hi great video, can all the radiators be switched off, like can we only use the boiler to warm up the water? THANKS!

Many thanks sir ❤

Really helped

Thank you!

Fair play mate💯👌

Great video. What do I do if brass isolation valve has broken off? Please help!!!

Thnx for the info brotha

Please could you do a video on when a radiator won’t turn off when the valve is turned to zero ? Thank you

On the thermostatic side of my radiator it only turns down to a frost icon which if I'm not mistaken would still allow a low flow through to stop it freezing up. Am I wrong or is there a specific way to shut off this type of value?

Brilliant videos. Finding these vary useful. Are thermostatic valves reliable? I'm taking the radiator off and it needs to be left off for a while (re-wiring the property, plastering) - do you recommend putting a valve clamp on or a cap or something, or do you think it should be fine?

Hey thanks for the video. I've got a leaking radiator and I've turned off at the thermostat valve. I'm not clear though, should I also turn off the lockshield on the other side, or will the thermostat alone do the job? Thank you.

Thank you, bob on 👍

I'm guessing this would be OK to do for the sole purpose of turning a rad off in a disused room (permanently) ? Thanks Al

Thank you so much

Thank you dude!

Brilliant thanks

Very helpful!