I will never cease to be amazed by the things I find!

Just removed a heated towel rail in a bathroom to find it was connected to
the hw supply to the bath!?

Or was this common practice during some mad time?

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"Dean Heighington" wrote in message
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I will never cease to be amazed by the things I find!

Just removed a heated towel rail in a bathroom to find it was connected to
the hw supply to the bath!?

Or was this common practice during some mad time?

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IIRC the only option for houses without gas central heating

Regards

Tony

On Sep 2, 1:36*pm, Dean Heighington wrote:
I will never cease to be amazed by the things I find!

Just removed a heated towel rail in a bathroom to find it was connected to
the hw supply to the bath!?

Or was this common practice during some mad time?

Why not? I don't really care if my towels are heated when washing my
hands, but it would be nice to have a warm towel after a shower or a
bath.

Nutkey wrote:

Why not? I don't really care if my towels are heated when washing my
hands, but it would be nice to have a warm towel after a shower or a
bath.

Except for the constant need to bleed the towel rail because of air getting
in!

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On Sep 2, 1:36*pm, Dean Heighington wrote:
I will never cease to be amazed by the things I find!

Just removed a heated towel rail in a bathroom to find it was connected to
the hw supply to the bath!?

Or was this common practice during some mad time?

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Yes very common. The towell rail will be made of copper or brass so
don't just chuck it out :-) Weigh it in.
Probably runs by convection orginally to fireback boiler.

harry wrote:

Yes very common. The towell rail will be made of copper or brass so
don't just chuck it out :-) Weigh it in.
Probably runs by convection orginally to fireback boiler.

Tis in the 'scrap metal crate' as I write... Had to fend off about twenty
bell ringing scroungers that seem to pass the house every 20 mins to keep
it though!

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"Dean Heighington" wrote in message
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I will never cease to be amazed by the things I find!

Just removed a heated towel rail in a bathroom to find it was connected to
the hw supply to the bath!?

Or was this common practice during some mad time?

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My heated towel rails are on my DHW loop ... this is a modern design, and
correct way to do things ....

22mm run from Thermal Store to last point (en-suite shower) then a 15mm loop
back to store .. with a Grunfos low speed circulator on it.

That way instant HW whenever you open a Hot tap .... no delay waiting for it
top get warm.
It's also mains pressure HW which is great for showers.

Towel Rails are simply plumbed into Tees on the 22mm pipe. Non-Ferrus due
to non-sealed circuit.

"Rick Hughes" wrote:
"Dean Heighington" wrote in message
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My heated towel rails are on my DHW loop ... this is a modern design,
and correct way to do things ....

22mm run from Thermal Store to last point (en-suite shower) then a 15mm
loop back to store .. with a Grunfos low speed circulator on it.

That way instant HW whenever you open a Hot tap .... no delay waiting for it top get warm.
It's also mains pressure HW which is great for showers.

Towel Rails are simply plumbed into Tees on the 22mm pipe. Non-Ferrus
due to non-sealed circuit.

This is not a house with a thermal store but a bog standard gravity fed
system with a gas fired boiler and is definitely not 'modern'.
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Dean Heighington wrote:

This is not a house with a thermal store but a bog standard gravity fed
system with a gas fired boiler and is definitely not 'modern'.

Correction: HW cylinder does constitute a thermal store and I can conceive
a loop from this with a pump to cycle hw including through a rad/towel rail
and as mentioned in another post this could also have been set up as part
of a convection system but it should have all been modified when the CH was
modernised.


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In article , Rick Hughes wrote:

My heated towel rails are on my DHW loop ... this is a modern design, and
correct way to do things ....
[...]
That way instant HW whenever you open a Hot tap .... no delay waiting for it
top get warm.

My house is like that, but the hot and cold pipes apparently run together
under the floors with no insulation, so if you have the hot loop circulating
you also get instant warm water when you turn on the cold tap, and have
to wait for it to run cold....