Swapping radiator for towel rail

[cantaffordtradesmen]

I want to swap the radiator in bathroom with a heated towel rail and want to know if there is anything else I need to consider.

The pipe center is the same so I'm assuming I can just change the valves and put the towel rail on. I have a combi boiler and assume I will have to drain the system to change the valves.

Is it as straight forward as that - draining the system, changing the valves, fixing the towel rail on and refilling the system?

Many thanks...

 

[wiggikins]

May be May be not, who knows?

 

[garethg]

Hopefully it is, as that is all I did. Depending on how much you are draining the system, and how many new devices you are putting in (I did 3 towel rails, 2 radiator changes in one go), you might want to consider a cleansing solution, and then later a protecting solution (after another flush of the system).

 

[spacethegas]

the chances are the valve connections on the towel rail exit at the bottom.
your rad has connections at the side.
can you see what i'm getting at ?

 

[big-all]

towel radiators give out a lot less heat than a normal radiator even less if is a double