We're aiming to put an electrically heated (as well as CH heated)towel rail in the new shower/wet room. How are these normally switchedon and off?Possibilities seem to me to be:-1 Pull switch, but this feels wrong for a towel rail somehow, also difficult to provide a clear indicator, a little glow by the switch on the ceiling isn't very obvious.2 Normal switch outside the wet-room. Possible but again seems rather counter-intuitive, though one could at least have a nice obvious 'on' indicator.3 A switch in the wet room but outside the zones. This is fairly easy in this case as the switch could be positioned on the soil pipe casing on the opposite side of the wet-room from the shower.4 A Quinetic switch, but this doesn't have an indicator so I'd have to add that as well, a rather expensive solution in total. Can one get 'indicator' lamps as stand-alone accessories?5 One could get all clever and have a low voltage (SELV) switch and circuit controlling a contactor/relay but this does seem a bit OTT.The third option seems most "easy to use and find" but is it actuallyOK? Can one get switches which are particularly suitable fordamp[ish] locations?If I go for the Quinetic switch option it would make sense to get adual controller as I'm aiming to use a Quinetic switch for the lights. However this raises the issue of what to connect it all to. All thetowel radiator electric heaters say they must be run from an FCU but Iguess they are assuming being connected to a power circuit with 32A or20A breaker. Can I connect the heater direct to a lighting circuit asthis is what I would be connecting the lighting Quinetic switch to.It will have a 6A breaker so I can't really se an issue with this.The instructions for the Screwfix ones say "The fused spur should befitted with at least a 5 amp fuse to the appropriate standard." whichdoesn't make a lot of sense! Would a 13 amp fuse be better?? :-)

Gridswitch plate with a neon module.You can but they tend to be a bit horticultural :-) I would probably go for a pull switch with a separate indicating module outside the room door, if leaving the thing on and forgetting it is an issue. Or even a runback timer switch so it runs for eg 2 hours to warm the room / dry the towels, then turns off.Owain

Options for switching electrically heated towel rail in wet room?

Aug 22, 2019 Last reply: 6 years ago 30 Replies

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John Rumm 6 years ago

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Bill Wright 6 years ago

Thank you. It's been hard, and now in some ways it's harder. I have a hard road ahead.

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Bill Wright 6 years ago

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Bill Wright 6 years ago

Thanks Charles.

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Bill Wright 6 years ago

Thank you.

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Thank you John.

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Sorry to hear that. You said she was ill when I called in for that printer for the Scouts that you gave away.

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