Removing the hallway radiator- bad idea?

We have a decent sized 10-fin radiator in the ground floor hallway of our building that we never turn on.
Single steam heat in a 5 unit building.
We are considering removing it altogether to open up some space in the front area for strollers, etc. We’d cap the pipe and leave it possible to add the radiator back if ever we wanted.
Any reason this would be a real bad idea in terms of the overall heating system?

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cmu | 9 years and 2 months ago

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Since the professionals have not chimed in: Normally steam systems are quite sensitive to changes in load. But if you have actually turned off the radiator (steam valve closed) and see no unbalancing effect (uneven heating), it’s obviously ok to remove it. It might marginally affect the efficiency of the system. I suspect because you have a bigger building with probably 12+ radiators, deleting one has less of an effect than in typical 3-unit, 7-8-radiator setups.