Spray painting the radiators, keeping in mind that silver or gold paint inhibits heat radiation, and 4. Hooking the radiators back up to yourheating system, again with professional assistance. This advice has the marvelous advantage of requiring other people to do most of the heavy work for you. But it ignores several crucial real-world facts about old radiators, such as their weight, fragility, and rusted solid connections to your household plumbing. Following the old-house manual's advice on the topic, in other words, can be a quick route to radiator hell. On the other hand, stripping one slowly is a fine way to let your emotional engines idle while you are trying to figure out what to do next. "So then what happened?" Ellie prompted Sam gently. She'd been going around with the vacuum cleaner, trying to get the little chips of red enamel up off the floor before Monday decided that they were edible. Sam sighed, moving the steel-wool pad. "So I went looking for him. By then it was way after midnight." Coming in to find Bob Arnold in the process of arresting his father, Sam had been carrying some things he and Tommy had spent the previous afternoon fooling around with.
