I heard a tale at work today. Someone has a floor mounted myson heated towel rail that runs off the central heating. It is slowly getting less and less warm and he concludes it is gradually filling with air. He has recently moved in and so has no history of the heating system He claims that there are no bleed screws on this towel rail which I found quite incredible.
Does anyone have one of these rails and know the secret of bleeding them?
TIA
Bob
"When all connections are complete, add water and vent unit using the bleed valve located on the top rail at the back or side of the unit, depending on the style of the unit"
I have bought normal radiators in the past with the bleed screw in the blind side of the top of the radiator also secreted by a plastic plug!!
There's going to be one there some where, just might need a bit of touchy-feely to find it. After all, you wouldn't really want to spoil sleek modern designer fitments with a prehistoric looking bleed valves would you.
Hopefully there's a bleed screw somewhere. Otherwise, the first word of the title becomes an adjective rather than a verb!
It may not look like the normal bleeding valve - it is often just a hex headed screw - frequently facing the wall at the top of one side. If it is a normal bleding valve then it will tend to be pointing striaght up on one of the columns.
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