underfloor heating and towel rails!!!!!

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joshea

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Is it necessary to have towel rails in bathrooms or ensuites where underfloor heating is to be installed.

Just another silly question from a self build.

kind regards,
j
 
Assume you mean heated towel rail? I would not have thought so, unless you want to have a hot towel to wrap up in after ur bath/shower. Even at that, just throw the towel on the ground and you'll be sorted!!
 
Heated towel rails are designed to warm towels, not to heat a space. They are usually taken off the primary circuit (higher temperture to heat hot plumbing water in cylinder), this also means they will be on when you want to heat hot water only.They are a personal choice.
 
we have heated towel rails in two bathrooms.They're farily big (approx 4 feet) it's the only source of heat and the rooms are always nice and warm. it's lovely having a warm towel ready after a shower.

we don't have underfloor heating but i think if we did i'd prefer to have the towel rail. i wouldn't heat a clean towel by leaving it on the floor, no matter how toasty it was!;)
 
DavyJones said:
Heated towel rails are designed to warm towels, not to heat a space. They are usually taken off the primary circuit (higher temperture to heat hot plumbing water in cylinder), this also means they will be on when you want to heat hot water only.They are a personal choice.
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Oh right. So why to they give BTU output and why do plumbers measure the area of the room before recommending the size and output of the required towel rail. I think you'll find that towel rails are used as and designed for heating rooms as well as heating towels. All our towel rails are plumbed to the CH circuit too.
 
David_Dublin said:
Oh right. So why to they give BTU output and why do plumbers measure the area of the room before recommending the size and output of the required towel rail. I think you'll find that towel rails are used as and designed for heating rooms as well as heating towels. All our towel rails are plumbed to the CH circuit too.
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I can't speak for other plumbers, only how I and the people who trained me do things.

Lets take a very small bathroom, maybe 6ft x 7ft, this wopuld require approx 1700 BTU's so lets say we fit this towel rail Your still a long way short even on a very small room. I think you will find that towel rails as the name suggests are often home to hanging towels, this also obstructs there heat output.

I would suggest for bigger bathrooms, that a towel rail be fitted to the primary circuit, so in the summertime when hot water only is on, then you have warm towels, this ofcourse is optional. I would recommend that a rad be fitted also on the seconardy circuit.

EDIT: OP is on about low temp UFH, If towel rail was to be fitted it would have to be from higher temp primary circuit.
 
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