Is it possible to feed a towel rail from the TOP, with the pipes going into the ceiling? (It would be above a bath so prety high anyway, and with the boiler above the ceiling) Would I need a bleed valve in the pipework at the highest point above the rail?
Feed to a towel rail
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if the header tank is high enough or its a sealed system you can feed from above .if you run the pipes down the wall from above to feed the rad from the bottom connections
With feed and return both at the top, the heated water will just whizz straight across the top rung and up the return without heating the rest of the rad.
Adding a long 'dip tube', like old single entry valves, reaching from the top almost to the bottom inside each side rail might work, but no guarantees - Plus you would have a problem of how to bleed air from the rad. when there's nowhere left to put a bleed valve.
A single small hole at the top of each internal dip tube, made with, say, a No. 60 drill may answer that one.
Just thinking out loud here - I've never tried it, and I don't know anybody that has, but it sounds like it might work....
Adding a long 'dip tube', like old single entry valves, reaching from the top almost to the bottom inside each side rail might work, but no guarantees - Plus you would have a problem of how to bleed air from the rad. when there's nowhere left to put a bleed valve.
A single small hole at the top of each internal dip tube, made with, say, a No. 60 drill may answer that one.
Just thinking out loud here - I've never tried it, and I don't know anybody that has, but it sounds like it might work....
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