I will never cease to be amazed by the things I find!
Just removed a heated towel rail in a bathroom to find it was connected to the hw supply to the bath!?
Or was this common practice during some mad time?
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12 years ago
anyone seen this setup before?
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12 years ago
IIRC the only option for houses without gas central heating
Regards
Tony
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12 years ago
Why not? I don't really care if my towels are heated when washing my hands, but it would be nice to have a warm towel after a shower or a bath.
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12 years ago
Except for the constant need to bleed the towel rail because of air getting in!
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12 years ago
Tis in the 'scrap metal crate' as I write... Had to fend off about twenty bell ringing scroungers that seem to pass the house every 20 mins to keep it though!
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12 years ago
My heated towel rails are on my DHW loop ... this is a modern design, and correct way to do things ....
22mm run from Thermal Store to last point (en-suite shower) then a 15mm loop back to store .. with a Grunfos low speed circulator on it.That way instant HW whenever you open a Hot tap .... no delay waiting for it top get warm. It's also mains pressure HW which is great for showers.
Towel Rails are simply plumbed into Tees on the 22mm pipe. Non-Ferrus due to non-sealed circuit.
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12 years ago
top get warm.
This is not a house with a thermal store but a bog standard gravity fed system with a gas fired boiler and is definitely not 'modern'.
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12 years ago
Correction: HW cylinder does constitute a thermal store and I can conceive a loop from this with a pump to cycle hw including through a rad/towel rail and as mentioned in another post this could also have been set up as part of a convection system but it should have all been modified when the CH was modernised.
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12 years ago
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My house is like that, but the hot and cold pipes apparently run together under the floors with no insulation, so if you have the hot loop circulating you also get instant warm water when you turn on the cold tap, and have to wait for it to run cold....