Hi
I'm just having my shower room fitted on the ground floor and apparently
there is some reason why it is hard (but not impossible) to have it come on
with the hot water (like the bathroom one does upstairs), so a possible
alternative solution suggested is to put it on the central heating circuit
and place thermostatic valves on every radiator and turn them all off except
the shower room one in the summer. Would this be a sensible solution and
actually work? Would the separate thermostat that I have in my hallway
effect it- it only goes up to 30 so presumably if it ever gets hotter than
that in the house in the summer the heating would turn off therefore the
radiator in the shower room would turn off which I don't want to happen as
it would be needed to dry towels. Would appreciate any advice.

Thanks

Martin

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Martin wrote:
I'm just having my shower room fitted on the ground floor and
apparently there is some reason why it is hard (but not impossible) to
have it come on with the hot water (like the bathroom one does upstairs),

That's because it would need new pipes run from the water heating circuit
which probably only exists in the bathroom.

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*Honk if you love peace and quiet.

Dave Plowman London SW 12
RIP Acorn

I'm just having my shower room fitted on the ground floor and apparently
there is some reason why it is hard (but not impossible) to have it come
on
with the hot water (like the bathroom one does upstairs), so a possible
alternative solution suggested is to put it on the central heating circuit

I assume the problem is that only the central heating zone passes nearby.

If you don't want to run new pipes, then consider using a hydronic towel
radiator with built in electric element. When the central heating is on, it
will be warm conventionally. In summer, you can set the element to go on an
hour before your bath. Assuming a 1kW element, that will cost you around 6p
every time you want a warm towel, which is probably not that much more
expensive than running the entire central heating system (and all its
primary circuit losses) for an hour just to heat a tiny single radiator.

Christian.

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In article ,
Martin wrote:
I'm just having my shower room fitted on the ground floor and
apparently there is some reason why it is hard (but not impossible) to
have it come on with the hot water (like the bathroom one does
upstairs),

That's because it would need new pipes run from the water heating circuit
which probably only exists in the bathroom.

Thanks for the answer, apparently it is not possible to connect to the
existing water heating circuit because it has been done wrongly(?) so a new
connection would have to be made to the pipes near the hot water tank.

Martin

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I'm just having my shower room fitted on the ground floor and apparently
there is some reason why it is hard (but not impossible) to have it come
on
with the hot water (like the bathroom one does upstairs), so a possible
alternative solution suggested is to put it on the central heating
circuit

I assume the problem is that only the central heating zone passes nearby.

If you don't want to run new pipes, then consider using a hydronic towel
radiator with built in electric element. When the central heating is on,
it
will be warm conventionally. In summer, you can set the element to go on
an
hour before your bath. Assuming a 1kW element, that will cost you around
6p
every time you want a warm towel, which is probably not that much more
expensive than running the entire central heating system (and all its
primary circuit losses) for an hour just to heat a tiny single radiator.

Christian.
Thanks for that advice Christian, it looks like the simplest solution.

Martin

In article ,
Martin wrote:

Thanks for the answer, apparently it is not possible to connect to the
existing water heating circuit because it has been done wrongly(?) so a
new connection would have to be made to the pipes near the hot water
tank.

The water heating circuit will go near enough the shortest way from your
boiler to hot water cylinder - so I'd say it's rather unlikely it goes
anywhere near the new shower room. It would mean running two new pipes.

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Dave Plowman London SW 12
RIP Acorn

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I'm just having my shower room fitted on the ground floor and apparently
there is some reason why it is hard (but not impossible) to have it come
on
with the hot water (like the bathroom one does upstairs), so a possible
alternative solution suggested is to put it on the central heating
circuit

I assume the problem is that only the central heating zone passes nearby.

If you don't want to run new pipes, then consider using a hydronic towel
radiator with built in electric element. When the central heating is on,
it
will be warm conventionally. In summer, you can set the element to go on
an
hour before your bath. Assuming a 1kW element, that will cost you around
6p
every time you want a warm towel, which is probably not that much more
expensive than running the entire central heating system (and all its
primary circuit losses) for an hour just to heat a tiny single radiator.

Christian.
Thanks for that advice Christian, it looks like the simplest solution.

Martin



Just about to do this myself using one of the chrome ladder style
towel radiators from Screwfix (around £100) and an electric element
from B&Q (£25-35).

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I'm just having my shower room fitted on the ground floor and
apparently
there is some reason why it is hard (but not impossible) to have it
come
on
with the hot water (like the bathroom one does upstairs), so a
possible
alternative solution suggested is to put it on the central heating
circuit

I assume the problem is that only the central heating zone passes
nearby.

If you don't want to run new pipes, then consider using a hydronic
towel
radiator with built in electric element. When the central heating is
on,
it
will be warm conventionally. In summer, you can set the element to go
on
an
hour before your bath. Assuming a 1kW element, that will cost you
around
6p
every time you want a warm towel, which is probably not that much more
expensive than running the entire central heating system (and all its
primary circuit losses) for an hour just to heat a tiny single
radiator.

Christian.
Thanks for that advice Christian, it looks like the simplest solution.

Martin



Just about to do this myself using one of the chrome ladder style
towel radiators from Screwfix (around £100) and an electric element
from B&Q (£25-35).

Thats a lot cheaper than the ones I've been looking at Thanks Jeremy!

Martin

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I'm just having my shower room fitted on the ground floor and
apparently
there is some reason why it is hard (but not impossible) to have it
come
on
with the hot water (like the bathroom one does upstairs), so a
possible
alternative solution suggested is to put it on the central heating
circuit

I assume the problem is that only the central heating zone passes
nearby.

If you don't want to run new pipes, then consider using a hydronic
towel
radiator with built in electric element. When the central heating is
on,
it
will be warm conventionally. In summer, you can set the element to go
on
an
hour before your bath. Assuming a 1kW element, that will cost you
around
6p
every time you want a warm towel, which is probably not that much more
expensive than running the entire central heating system (and all its
primary circuit losses) for an hour just to heat a tiny single
radiator.

Christian.
Thanks for that advice Christian, it looks like the simplest solution.

Martin



Just about to do this myself using one of the chrome ladder style
towel radiators from Screwfix (around £100) and an electric element
from B&Q (£25-35).

Do you fill the radiator with water / oil / what? Fill it totally or leave
some expansion space? how much?

Am interested in doing the same- SWMBO insists on keeping our existing hot
water style towel rail but its impractical to run CH pipes to its new
location...

Tim..