how do you install a heated towel rail? and is there any particular tools and parts needed?

Answer 1

Assuming you are replacing a central heating radiator.

1) It will not be the same width unless you are lucky
2) You will only get about a quarter of the heat in the bathroom.
3) You will need two straight compression couplings, a small length of pipe, small tin of Plumbers Mate and two suitable spanners.
4) Fix the rad with the brackets provided and at the same height from the floor as the rad you are removing. Turn the supply off.
5) Take up as many floorboards as is necessary
6) With a spare piece of same size pipe measure the amount you need to bring the existing connection to meet with the new rad connecting point.
Make sure you cut it longer to fill the recesses in your joints.
7) Clean all pipe areas at the joints and apply a little smear of Plumbers Mate to all the Olives.
8)Tighten all the joints and open the connecting rad valves.
9) Open the vent valve to let out any air.
10) Turn the water back on and check for leaks.
11) Refit the floorboards.
12) Fill in the old holes.

Oh, my knees are aching already?

Answer 2

Same way you install a radiator. Bear in mind that a heated towel rail will NOT heat your bathroom, you must also install a radiator to do this. I have pointed this out to many customers in the past.
Towel rail is for heating towels.
Radiator is for heating rooms.

Answer 3

Depends on which type of 'heated towel rail' you go for. There are some great ones you just need to hang and plug in to a power source (outside the bathroom of course)
In my old home my 'handyman' screwed the fittings to the wall, hung the rail on them, drilled a hole through the wall (to the socket outside) and plugged it in. Worked perfectly.
In my new home I just drape towels over the radiator and (bog standard) towel rail.

Answer 4

Depends weather it is electric or being fitted to the central heating system.

You will need to drill and plug the walls to screw the brackets and attach the T/rail to the wall.
If it is being fitted in place of a radiator you will need to drain the system buy some pipe and fittings such as elbows to reconnect the pipes and valves if you have not bought them already.

Answer 5

assuming there is a radiator where you want the towel rail a plumber will do it in about 20 minutes for next to nothing ?

Answer 6

I apologise because of the fact the 1st little bit of my answer is somewhat noted The Snake. He has spoke back as while you're stupid on the subject of the heated towel rail. i could choose to tell him it is the place the concern arises and various people like your self get inadequate warmth. those towel rails are offered in many places as fashion designer Radiators and the salespeople tell those no longer likely recommended in such concerns that they warmth the bathing room. I had a clean bathing room put in in Jan and went to a nicely know respected, huge company. bathing room measurements have been all taken and so directly to paintings out quantity of warmth required and that i replaced into informed an extremely great towel rail or fashion designer Heater as they noted because it replaced into sufficient and unsuspectently i offered it. This replaced into completely inadequate and that i could have listened to my plumber whilst he informed me this whilst he first observed it.. Ended up I had to get an further radiator put in. possibly no longer as graceful looking as meant yet what's using having a chilly bathing room? you notice that landlord of yours and get a radiator put in. verify he checks the BTU's required to warmth the size of the bathing room.

Answer 7

get a plumber or if your confident by a book on plumbing and have a go

Answer 8

You get a plumber!

Answer 9

you plumb it in as you would a radiator

Answer 10

well heres a product you can't live without.