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towel rail
A towel rails radiator or a heated towel rail is a feature designed to heat towels before using them. For many years, European hotels have used them as combined towel- dryers/racks. The towel warmer is a bathroom heater suitable for both drying and heating towels and the environment. There are two versions: traditional ones that are plumbed like a radiator with water heated from a central boiler, and electric ones where an electrical resistance heats water or oil contained in the unit
I’ve paid good money for a bathroom installation. This follows on from having an en-suite installed last year. Both involved replacing existing radiators with flexi pipe behind them with towel rails. When my towel rail was fitted in the en suite the plumber fitted with two very short pieces of...
Hey everyone!
I have a towel warmer that used to work fine for a few months then all of the sudden stopped. As far as I can tell nothing has changed as in nobody fiddled with the balance of the radiators, the pressure in the combi boiler has been fine, etc.
So far I have tried:
bleeding the...
Hi. Ive just moved house and trying to figure out the heating and also save myself some money. I have this towel rail (see below) and cant figure for the life of me how to completely switch it off whilst the heating elsewhere is on. There are 2 valves that can turn but i dont even know which one...
Hi, hoping someone can help. We have a dual fuel towel rail, i.e. connected to the central heating, but with an electric element in one of the "legs". The bottom of the other leg is leaking around what I assume is a blanking plug. This plug has a large hex socket, and I've tried tightening it...
Hello team,
I just noticed that in one of my bathroom, the blanking plug valve on the towel rail is leaking. I just moved in this new house and the valve looks old and the seal a little damaged. Anyway, I just ordered a replacement but I have no idea on what is the process to change that. What...
Hopefully this is a quick one...
I'm currently building a house (well, my builder is, I'm doing a few of the jobs myself). Originally, we were going to have electric towel rails in the bathrooms, because we were going to have solar panels. We're over budget, so the panels will have to wait...
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Wonder if anyone can help - I've got this towel rail (pic below) which has two valves on either side (pics on left/right).
How do I turn this off?
I would like to avoid (a) flooding the house or (b) switching off the entire UK water supply, which knowing my level of plumbing skills from...
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This valve is leaking just under the square cap. If I want to take the cap off to try to tighten the nut underneath it do I just pull on it?
Thanks
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Has anyone got one knocking about I'm on the south coast. I have mis quoted a job thinking the towel rail was a 600 with -50mm centres but it was a fancy designer thing with different centres so I need a 500mm centres towel rail. Chrome pipes straight up from floor brand new bathroom. Towel rail...
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I've been looking all over the place but i can't seem to find the answer to my particular issue so I hope you can help!
I have an electric towel rail in my bathroom which is very basic and was installed just under 4 years ago. It was switched on constantly for the whole of winter and when...
Heated Towel Rail Valve Dripping.
I was cleaning the bathroom and the heated towel rail and I noticed afterwards there was a very small drip.
See Photo.
Should I try gently tightening this ? I doubt if I have the correct spanner, would it be a special tool?
I could use a rag and some mole...
Good Morning Guys,
I'm normally over in the Electrician's Forum but my GCH experience normally stops at S and Y connections. Also, my old house was a simple, mains fed combi-boiler and I'm just moved to a place with header and hot water tanks so I'd appreciate your views. I'll call-in a GCH...
Hi guys, I would like to tap into your knowledge of dual fuel towel rails.
We already have an electric element in our en-suite towel rail/radiator, which was added about 10 years ago and is connected to a timer. In Summer I close off both valves and turn on the timer so we get toasty towels in...
So here goes.
My bathroom towel rail is cold. All other rads in the house are hot and on both upstairs and downstairs. The feed pipe going into the towel rail is nice and hot but the rail itself is cold. It's has a teeny weeny bit of temp change for about an inch along the bottom rung but I...
Towel rail needs to be removed so that new flooring can fit over pipes. Therefore the whole thing needs to come off valves and all so that the pipe ends coming up from the floor are exposed. The bottom compression nut and olive can stay on each pipe as there will be big enough holes in the...
Hi All,
Hoping someone can help with what I thought was a minor problem/easy fix issue with the towel rail in my new-ish house; it is now permanently cold.
I'll explain a bit of background, the system set up and some things I've tried so far... Hopefully I'm missing something blindly obvious...
Hi all,
I wondered if you could please give me some advice in regards to a towel rail we have just had fitted. This rail is only heating up the top half and not the bottom.
This is quite a long towel rail thats been installed in our bathroom. The rail has been installed so the 2 inlets for the...
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Hope you can help... firstly, I'm not a plumber, but l like to be hands on If possible and try to understand things if I can. The problem I have is I had a new radiator/towel rail replaced in my bathroom which I tiled a while back. I had a local plumber plumb the radiator in which I...
I have got a Worcester Bosch combi boiler heating system with a MagnaClean filter. The heated towel rail in the bathroom is white and rusting, so I plan to replace it with a chrome rail to reduce the likelihood of future rusting. Am I right in thinking that when I disconnect the existing towel...
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