On Nov 21, 11:44*am, "Roger Mills" wrote:
In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Trade Plumbing *wrote:





On Nov 20, 5:12 pm, Stephen wrote:
Hello,

I was wondering whether to put the bathroom rads on a separate CH
zone, rather than connecting them to the upstairs zone. I'm thinking
this way I could heat the towels in the summer without heating the
bedrooms.

Is this a good idea? If so, how would I control the 2 port-valve?
Normally I would use a thermostat but can you use thermostats in a
bathroom? I'm thinking not because of (i) electrical requirements
(unless outside zone 2 or wireless) and (ii) wouldn't the humidity be
an issue?

Would you just run the circuit off a timer? Could I use TRVs or would
TRVs switch off the rad when the room was warm but before the towels
were warm?

Thanks,
Stephen.

Hi there Stephen

I was wondering if you had considered the Dual Fuel option? *It would
be far simpler for you than trying to reconfigure the way your heating
works. *Most people want to shut their central heating off completely
during the summer, as it's inefficient to keep it running, just for
one radiator in your home.

I recommend that you consider one of the central-heated towel rails,
with an electric element so that you can use the bathroom radiator
during the summer months. *Most of our central heated towel rails can
be converted to Dual Fuel with a kit that we can send out. *Here is an
example of the kind of thing we mean:
http://www.tradeplumbing.co.uk/1200m...-Chrome-Curved.....

Hope this helps

That's ok if you happen to like towel rads rather than *proper* rads - but
bear in mind that, size for size, they only produce a fraction of the heat
output of the real thing.
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Cheers,
Roger
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That's true if you're thinking about the modern ladder towel rails.
There are other towel rails that have a more traditional inset
radiator, such as the british-made
http://www.tradeplumbing.co.uk/Elect...p_36-6287.html
which has an output of over 3000BTUs.

In conventional radiator terms, to get such an output, you'd need to
have a single panel 500 x 1100mm or a double panel 500 x 600mm.

There are timers and thermostatic controls available for this type of
radiator.

Didn't really want to get too technical here, but I hope this
reassures you that it's the simplest option.