Good afternoon all, sorry if this seems like a stupid question but I am looking for advice. We recently had our bathroom done and were advised a Radox RXPS-1800400-CH would be man enough to heat the room. It isn’t, having done a bit of homework I think I’m going to go down the route of a convector radiator, the rest of the rads are convector rads. Is this the way forward?
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Hello all.
Reading the towel rail thread touched a nerve as we were thinking of getting the old rads changed to upright ones.
We need to replace old and inefficient radiators in our house. The current ones look like they have been there since late 60s early 70s.
In a newish extension we have modern radiators that seem to be far more efficient, but to make space in the living room we are thinking about fitting slimmer and higher vertical rads, does the towel rail, not much use theory come into play.
Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
Reading the towel rail thread touched a nerve as we were thinking of getting the old rads changed to upright ones.
We need to replace old and inefficient radiators in our house. The current ones look like they have been there since late 60s early 70s.
In a newish extension we have modern radiators that seem to be far more efficient, but to make space in the living room we are thinking about fitting slimmer and higher vertical rads, does the towel rail, not much use theory come into play.
Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
I think you should start a new question and make it a bit clearer what you are asking because I, for one, am not sure.
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My question is, are the upright radiators efficient or are they as much use as a towel rail for heating.
As far as towel rails go (I know they're not that manly at pushing out heat) - I find you get a disproportional benefit when you go from 400 width to 600 width. The reason being that you now only need to fold the towel once (in half), whereas on a 400 needs folding into three, this thicker bundle of towel kills room heating dead.
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Towel rails are only a few rails, so little surface to them, therefore low output. Also chrome type will lower the potential output.
Then largely cover them with a couple of towels and you prevent the convection.
Vertical radiators are different and are proper radiators.
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Many thanks for your reply. I will get a proper radiator fitted with a towel shelf/rack above, so no wet towels on the rad.
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You can also get a combined towel rail radiator, which look rather well in my opinion and will do both functions - heat the room and warm the towels
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What height is the room?
Is this a Wooden floor, (I know it is tiled).
Is the room upstairs?
If it is upstairs is there a loft above it which is insulated or is there a room or heated space above it?
What temperature do you have your Boiler set to?
I have 4 of these in locations where space is tight:
Ultraheat - Tilbrook
In my research some verticals had very poor heat outputs per m2 of wall area. The above were the best *I* could find - and I'm pleased with them. Not cheap mind... Also note - both pipes must be bottom entry on those.
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Many Thanks. I will do some research on these and Zehnder radiators.
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