Heated Towel Rail

[billy1]

Evening all,

Is it corroect that I can run a towel rail of my domestic ho****e supply?

cheers for the advic

-- billy1

[John Rumm]

no... well you could but it would only work when the tap was open. Some value inline with a shower perhaps - the towels would be warm when you are done.

Your welcome.

;-)

What you are probably thinking of is situations where the towel rad is plumbed into the hot water heating segment of a conventional central heating system rather than the radiator segment. This has the advantage that the rail will be kept hot even when the rads are not being used in the summer but the HW heating is still on.

[Alan Vann]

Just spent a week in a holiday cottage with exactly this system, except that *all* hot water went through the rail. Took aeons to come out of the kitchen tap...... (I assume the basic plumbing was contemporary with the house, early 50s at a guess, back-boiler supplemented by an immersion heater. The place wasn't a throwback though, it was nicely modernised, miles from anywhere and no mobile phone signal. Wonderful).

Alan

[Phil L]

no