Search the forum,

towel

A towel is a piece of absorbent fabric or paper used for drying or wiping a body or a surface. It draws moisture through direct contact.
In households, several types of fabric towels are used, including hand towels, bath towels, and kitchen towels. At the beach, people use beach towels.
Paper towels are provided in commercial or office bathrooms via a dispenser for users to dry their hands. In households they are used for minor, precision, or particularly dirty jobs of wiping, cleaning, and drying.

View More On Wikipedia.org
Recent contents Top users
  1. N

    Towel radiator from plastic pipes

    Hi, we live in a newish house with plastic heating pipes dropped in the walls. In the wc there is currently a small rad, the pipes are central behind it and brought out onto microbore copper behind the rad which is ok as they are fixings don't show. I'm about to tile the room and at the same...
    • Nick SR
    • Thread
    • chrome pipes plastic plumbing radiator straight towel towel radiator
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Plumbing Jobs | The Job-board
  2. D

    Flow hot return cold

    Hi to all you plumbing experts ! Can any one help me please . Am trying to get a towel rail hot , the flow pipe is hot up to the valve and the return is cold as is the rail . I have balanced the rads and the whole house is toastie new valves have been fitted to the towel rail , I have attached...
  3. A

    Bathroom towel rails?

    I'm planning a bathroom remodel and wanted to replace my existing bathroom rad (will be too small and cast iron) with a towel rail and worked out I need something in the region of 1200w, am I being dense the largest towel rail I can find is only half that power rating? For the space I have...
  4. S

    Adding a Towel Radiator into new En-Suite

    Hi guys, Sorry to have to ask this one, especially when I have done it previously on a number of occasions. But, is it okay to simply tap into existing feed and return circuits on heating system for the additional radiator? I know that the boiler is capable of coping with the extra demand, and...
  5. L

    Advice: Towel radiator - Pipe centers : 790mm apart

    HI all, I am having the radiators for my combi boiler ch system replaced tomorrow. For the downstairs bathroom (size of a box room - quite small), I am trying to source a normal (not designer i.e overly expensive) chrome towel rad. If there is anyone who has sourced one, of decent quality...
  6. T

    Towel Radiator Tappings

    Does anyone else frequently get problems with the 1/2" Tappings on towel radiators. 90% of the ones I have seen are dog rough, usually a really slack thread, and often leak no matter how much jointing compound you put on. I generally just use PTFE or loctite on the valve tails, is there...
  7. SimonG

    Towel Rail.

    About 6 weeks ago I got a call 'my towel rail is leaking'. Off I went, jumped out the van and grabbed a couple of spanners thinking quick nip up and away I'll be. Gets in to find the towel rail has rotted through. Drains it down, and had to cap trv as it was passing. Went back today, new...
  8. E

    electric and wet towel rail

    Hi all, having a problem with a customers towel rails (x2). they are conventionally plumbed in on the wet side i.e. flow and return to the bottom and are electrically wired at the top. i didn't put them in and the customer does not have any literature..... Problem is they only heat up up the...
  9. I

    electric only towel radiator additive

    Hello, I am replacing our bathroom towel radiator. I would like to go for electric only ( as its preety warm room ) for drying the towel. Could you please tell me what is the additive in the picture ? As far as I researched I can use filtered de-ionised ( reverse osmosis ) water with car...
    • Ibrahim Kalay
    • Thread
    • anyone attach electric please radiator towel towel radiator water
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Plumbing Jobs | The Job-board
  10. A

    Bathroom radiator on hot water circuit (combi system)

    Hi. Working on a 3 bedroom house and looking for some advice... Went to view a job yesterday that needs 6 rads installing and system re-piping. Came across a bathroom radiator that was heated by the hot water circuit. It's a combi system and they have teed of the HW circuit to feed the rad...
    • Andy Plumber
    • Thread
    • bathroom bathroom radiator circuit heated hot hot water radiator system towel water
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Plumbing Jobs | The Job-board
  11. M

    Radiator sizing

    Ok, I am not a plumber and do not touch anything involving water (unless its a kettle) or gas. We are having a bathroom refitted and want a nice new shiny chrome radiator. The room is about 2.4 x 1.4 x 2.4 metres high. Lots of the better looking radiators appear to have very high BTU's - is it...
  12. C

    geting air out of towel rail

    hi lads, went to a job today to fix a towel rail , wasnt getting warm , anyway sorted that and noticed it was only getting hot to middle (top full of air) now i cant open the bleed key as its totally rounded/flatend , and i cant replace it as ive never seen one like this before in my 5 years...
  13. N

    Adding a towel rail 15ft from boiler? Any issues?

    We already have one towel rail heated from the hot water circuit. ie: When the boiler is heating the hot water in the tank, the existing towel rail (about 2 ft away) is heated. This works perfectly, so twice a day the towels get a good little heat through. We're looking to introduce another...
    • NeilF
    • Thread
    • about adding another boiler central heating system issues oil rail towel towel rail water
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: Plumbing Jobs | The Job-board
  14. R

    Towel radiator (piping design)

    Hello I fitted a chrome towel radiator yesterday (1800x600) i stupidly used the two top connections for flow and return. The house is a bungalow so the pipes come from the roofspace and drop to below. As soon as I turned the water on I knew the radiator wouldn't heat as the heat is taking the...
  15. L

    Cap off towel heated towel radiator - open vented heating system with gravity feed

    hi there. Have an old corroding towel rail in our main bathroom which I would like to remove and simply cap off. I was going to simply lift the floor boards and connect the two pipes under the floor after removing the spurs to the towel rail as didnt what to cap each one off individually as...
    • lyndonho
    • Thread
    • gravity heated heating heating system open vented radiator system towel towel radiator vented
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Plumbing Jobs | The Job-board
  16. hammers4spanner

    towel rails

    A friend of mine bought a towel rail from B&Q which i installed today for him which inolved removing old rad etc etc .Anyhows upon refilling system one of the welds as usual sprang a leak so he phoned B&Q and told them the issue so off we go to get another towel rail .When we are in the store...
  17. M

    Anyone identify these towel rads?

    I've got a job to replace six chrome towel rads that have suffered badly with pinholing due to lack of inhibitor. The customer (and I!) would really like to replace like for like as installing different ones would mean a lot of disruption to walls etc. However there are no manufacturers...
  18. N

    Can I install a bleed valve in my heated towel rail?

    My bathroom has been refitted with a brand new designer type towel rail. This is the highest radiator on my circuit and is slowly collecting some air. My old bathroom rad had a standard bleed valve which was easy to use. This towel rail has no valve, just a "bolt" and fibre washer. To release...
    • Norfolk Ray
    • Thread
    • bleed heated install probably rail slightly system towel towel rail valve
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Plumbing Jobs | The Job-board
  19. A

    Need advice on towel rad centers

    My customer is buying a 500 wide towel rail for the wall i want to board out the floor to tile but need to know thwe measurements for the feeding pipes the centers and distance from the wall too can anybody advise? cheers:punk:
  20. E

    bathroom towel rail said to be on the hot water circuit

    Hi All, Attended a job today and was informed that the bathroom rail was on the hot water circuit. it is a large communal boiler in a block of flats with no valves or stopcocks in the flat. I tried draining but obviously couldnt without stopping the system filling. There is a pump in the...
Creating content since 2001. Untold Media.

Newest Plumbing Threads

Back
Top
AdBlock Detected

We get it, advertisements are annoying!

Sure, ad-blocking software does a great job at blocking ads, but it also blocks useful features of our website. For the best site experience please disable your AdBlocker.

I've Disabled AdBlock