Replacing bathroom rad with Towel Rad

[Alex Boothby]

Hi all,

First of all apologies for joining then immediately posting a question! I know how annoying this can be. I wpuld love to return the favour if you visit computerforums.org if you ever need any compoooter help!

So I want to replace the current bathroom rad with a towel rad.

I have a combi boiler.

The pipes coming out of the ground are 500 mm apart.

This is what it looks like

I was thinking if I was to buy a towel rad 500mmwide, i could replace the angled valves with straitones, and it would fit on nicely? Sound Sensible?

If I am to replace the valves I am guessing I wouldneed to drain down the system first and the replace with inhibitor? I've heardthis is easy on a combi boiler? Would you agree?

Any help muchly appreciated

 

[rocketmanbkk]

Yes, if you can get same width rad should be simpler than altering pipe work.

 

[Chalked]

A 500 towel rail has 450-460mm centres. The will be about 50-70 from the wall. So a little alteration would be needed.

 

[PlumbBobBob]

perfectly fine and easy with the right sized rad. you shouldn't need to drain down the whole system just knock the pressure off you will be fine.

 

[Chalked]

Oh. And someone in the house needs to aim better!:welcome:

 

[Frelon]

Be aware that some towel rails are more likely to be referred to as towel warmers! You will find the bathroom does not heat up when you have towels on the radiators, as the towels become good insulators!
You will also find reports on this forum of leaks with chromed finish radiators. Do a lot of homework before buying your rads.[emoji106]

 

[quality]

I tried this

 

[Frelon]

That is what I call belt and braces

 

[Alex Boothby]

Oh. And someone in the house needs to aim better!:welcome:

Ha! Its rust. Weird though, I've never seen a rad do that before?

Thanks for all your help. Much appreciated.

The depth from my wall to where the pipes comes out of the floor is only 40mm, so I am struggling to find a rad that will work with this. Many of them have a depth of like 90-100mm so this woudnt work?

Do you guys think NoLinkingToThis kudox-flat-ladder-towel-radiator-chrome-1100-x-500mm (sorry it wont let me hyperlink) would work? It looks like it has a smaller depth.

Many thanks once again in advance

 

[Welder]

If you are staying in the house do it properly. Bite the bullet and get a stainless one otherwise you will be replacing it every 2-3 years. Unless the warmer is stainless, NO ONE offers a warranty for early rusting where dampsbtowels are placed on it. You have been warned. Oh, also, put in the biggest you can otherwise the space will be cold. A polished rad only outputs half that of a white one then thats reduced by covering with towels. Have fun.

 

[Alex Boothby]

If you are staying in the house do it properly. Bite the bullet and get a stainless one otherwise you will be replacing it every 2-3 years. Unless the warmer is stainless, NO ONE offers a warranty for early rusting where dampsbtowels are placed on it. You have been warned. Oh, also, put in the biggest you can otherwise the space will be cold. A polished rad only outputs half that of a white one then thats reduced by covering with towels. Have fun.

Thanks for the advice,

The room is only 2x2m, so not the biggest to warm.

I will have a look for stainless steel ones, but we only plan on being here for 5ish years, and not sure we can afford something super expensive!!

Thanks again!

 

[rocketmanbkk]

Buy cheap buy twice!

 

[Welder]

Alex try Trade Radiators for stainless ones. They are NOT expensive but putting rubbish in IS expensive.

2x2 is almost irrelevant. Its how much heat you need vs how much is allowed into teh space by the plethora of towels.

The customer is always right - except when they don't have a clue... ;-)

 

[Alex Boothby]

Alex try Trade Radiators for stainless ones. They are NOT expensive but putting rubbish in IS expensive.

2x2 is almost irrelevant. Its how much heat you need vs how much is allowed into teh space by the plethora of towels.

The customer is always right - except when they don't have a clue... ;-)

Dam - I already purchased one from screwfix before I saw this. it does say it is a steel construction though with BTU of 1624 which is more than recommended for my room.

At least as it is screwfix if the tails dont line up with the pipework I can take it back and then call a plumber to adjust pipework!

 

[Welder]

We tried... I'm out.

 

[Frelon]

Now this is what I call a bathroom radiator!

Buy cheap, buy twice as rocketmanbkk said!

We had two of these installed in our house in France, fabulous warm bathrooms and lovely warm towels! They were installed on a separate zone to the central heating so that we could run them during the summer and not have damp towels hanging around.

Now have the same radiators installed in our new house in the UK.

 

[rocketmanbkk]

Looks lovely