Towel Raditor

[random]

Hi,
I have a fairly small bathroom which is basically 2 x 2 x 2.3 heigh.

I would really like to swap the rad with a chrome towel rad, but I know their output is pretty poor so we are considering white rather than chrome, or paying a bit more to get a chrome rad with a better BTU. The rad was under the window, so I need to find one with centres of 550 & a maximum height of about 750.

I have found this towel radiator - http://www.towelradiator.co.uk/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=47 which outputs 1676 BTU's.
Calculating the required BTU's for this room, I believe this should be suficient.

- Are my BTU calculations correct ?
- Are Adige Towel radiators any good or can anyone recommend a better manufacturer.

Thanks for reading,
Ian

 

[Paul Barker]

Looks abou the right size.

 

[muggles]

As far as I'm aware (and please feel free to correct me on this) the colour of your towel rail won't make a blind bit of difference to it's output.

Towel rail looks fine, although I've not done a calc on the room as someone's nabbed my calculator so I'm just going on the look of it, never heard of Adige so can't comment on them

 

[rssteve]

in screwfix the white rails always have a higher output than the silver ones of the exact same size and design, i guess the silver keeps the heat in like takeaway food containers do.

 

[random]

in screwfix the white rails always have a higher output than the silver ones of the exact same size and design, i guess the silver keeps the heat in like takeaway food containers do.

The guy in the plumbing store suggested it was to do with the paint.

 

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What make of towel warmers /rads do people recommend?

 

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What make of towel warmers /rads do people recommend?

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[namsag]

Its pay your money and take your choice the screwfix ones are perfectly ok and what would cost you 70 quid will cost you around £200 from plumbcentre etc for one of the recognised makes such as stelrad.
And to be honest the quality is not that different

Heat outputs of towel rads don`t really matter because the first thing anyone does is hang towels over it thus stopping the heat getting out.

And be careful the surface temp of the chrome ones seems a lot hotter than a normal rad . I bent over andgot caught for a second my as#e looked like it had been sponsered by adidas for a few weeks . ouch

 

[random]

Heat outputs of towel rads don`t really matter because the first thing anyone does is hang towels over it thus stopping the heat getting out.

Surely the towel reduces the btu rating by X BTU's ? Thus the more output the more heat will come out of the rad when a towel is on it.

I have found a Quinn towel rad which is pretty much spot on but in white. Quinn Pearl 600 x 800 (560 centres) with a BTU rating of 1668. So I think I'm going to go with that rad. That should be plenty enough for the room.