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We're doing up a bathroom and the question of a dual fuel radiator has come up. Is it worth the extra effort? Any cunning setups worth considering?
If it's warm enough to not have the heating on, are warm towels that much of a luxury?
dry towels are the luxury, not necessarily warm ones.
A good towel rail on which you can hang more than one towel without double folding will do it.
We had the summer heating kit added to ours when we had the bathroom redone.
I can think of occasions that we'd want the towel rail on but not the whole central heating. Only cost £60 or so-no brainer.
I think it also partly depends on how well things dry in your house generally. We didn't bother with electric for the towel rail because in summer towels hung on it would dry no problem without it being on.
We made sure to get a towel rail where the attachments to the wall don't obstruct hanging a towel over. Many of them have attachments that restrict the width you can usefully hang something on.
Waste of money in our case; I fitted electric elements to both bathroom towel rails and then discovered that running the CH and the electric heater overheats the heater, which doesn't switch itself off and goes pop, so, crap really.
Now we never use the electric heaters because the towels dry when the CH is on anyway.
Globalti, pretty sure your not supposed to use the electric one when the CH is on. It's for use when CH is off (i.e. summer) and you still want dry towels.
Well, that's one of the questions. As the process is a little involved, to switch between the two, how often does it go wrong?
Starting to wonder if a separate electric towel rail tied into the underfloor heating might be a better answer.
The towel rails in our house are part of the hot water system, so will be hot when that's on. Seems to be quite effective.
Can any radiator be dual fuel by swapping valves and fitting an element? Or does it need to be a specific dual fuel?