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Towel warmers - Do they make effective radiators?

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  • gas4you
    gas4you Posts: 2,602 Forumite
    Not allowed anymore under current energy efficiency regs.

    Not retrospective though.
  • Welsh_Totster
    Welsh_Totster Posts: 527 Forumite
    diable wrote: »
    £117 delivered, churns out enough heat.........

    DSCF4515.jpg

    And thanks to diable I shall be purchasing one of those very same towel rads for my new bathroom thanks to his rec!
  • keystone
    keystone Posts: 10,916 Forumite
    gas4you wrote: »
    Not allowed anymore under current energy efficiency regs.
    Nor required with a boiler that has a built-in bypass. I was, of course, meaning older systems. Sorry that I was unclear.
    Not retrospective though.
    Good thing in one way. Lot of work to be had if it was. :D

    Cheers
    The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits. - Einstein
  • 27col
    27col Posts: 6,554 Forumite
    I've found our bathroom to be quite warm enough with just a heated towel rail. The rail is plumbed into the hot water system, so when you have a bath, the towel rail is hot due to the demand from the DHW tank to replace the hot water used in filling the bath.
    I can afford anything that I want.
    Just so long as I don't want much.
  • spinningsheep
    spinningsheep Posts: 1,055 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    I have a vertical chrome one (like a quarter sized version of the one in diable's pic) in my en suite and it is toasty warm in there, runs on heating circuit though so off lots of the year. My parents have the same one but slighly larger in their bathroom and it is more than sufficient as a radiator.

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  • AndersLimpar_2
    AndersLimpar_2 Posts: 134 Forumite
    Where from Diable?
  • diable
    diable Posts: 5,258 Forumite
    AndersLimpar wrote: »
    Where from Diable?

    http://www.nwtdirect.co.uk/
  • koolkat66
    koolkat66 Posts: 66 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10 Posts
    'I've found our bathroom to be quite warm enough with just a heated towel rail. The rail is plumbed into the hot water system, so when you have a bath, the towel rail is hot due to the demand from the DHW tank to replace the hot water used in filling the bath.'

    is this an electric towel radiator?
    Cristina
  • diable
    diable Posts: 5,258 Forumite
    koolkat66 wrote: »
    'I've found our bathroom to be quite warm enough with just a heated towel rail. The rail is plumbed into the hot water system, so when you have a bath, the towel rail is hot due to the demand from the DHW tank to replace the hot water used in filling the bath.'

    is this an electric towel radiator?
    Cristina

    Water powered I think.........
  • GSDog
    GSDog Posts: 162 Forumite
    diable wrote: »
    http://www.nwtdirect.co.uk/

    I bought mine from there based on your recommendation and I am very pleased. I went for the 600 x 1200 Snowdon one which has an output of around 2300 BTU, enough to heat the bathroom sufficiently. :beer:
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