Towel rail timer control

[loulew]

Hi all, I’m currently doing a bathroom re-furb and i’ve installed a dual fuel heated towel rad. It’s fed via an FCU outside the room which then currently goes to a kudox controller just underneath the rad, both of which are zone 2.

The client has just asked how to use the controller and I’ve explained that he just needs to turn it on in the summer to warm the towels. But he doesn’t like having to turn it on before use and would prefer it on a timer.

My question is, does anyone know of any timed controller that can be used for towel rails, obviously needs to be ipx4 as in zone 2.

Thanks in advance for any reply’s.

 

[loulew]

The rad is only 300mm wide too, so not exactly going to fit many towels on it either!

 

[Martyn Fletcher]

My towel rail comes on with the heating. When I turn the heating off for the warmer seasons the towel rail becomes a towel rack. As Midwest said "who wants warm towels" (in summer)?

 

[Midwest]

Thought most people used them to dry wet towels!

Ohh so unhygienic

 

[suffolkspark]

So you dont even have even have local isolation for the towel rail or UFH? Its up some stairwell in another room? This setup sounds retarded dude, sorry.

 

[loulew]

It’s the setup that was in place when I got there. If the client doesn’t want to change it then what more can I do.

 

[Richard Burns]

It’s the setup that was in place when I got there. If the client doesn’t want to change it then what more can I do.

I think you have hit the right point there; the customer has decided the level of work they are prepared to accept and then wants more done that is not sensible with the existing limitations they have imposed.
This is what you should be telling the customer (in a nicer way!)

 

[suffolkspark]

It’s the setup that was in place when I got there. If the client doesn’t want to change it then what more can I do.

The cast of grange hill - just say no

 

[davesparks]

It’s the setup that was in place when I got there. If the client doesn’t want to change it then what more can I do.

You can always do nothing, if the customer won’t allow the job to be done right then don’t do the job.

 

[telectrix]

tell him to fit one of these over the bath.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Leifheit-R...0552&sr=8-18&keywords=over+bath+clothes+dryer

 

[davesparks]

My towel rail comes on with the heating. When I turn the heating off for the warmer seasons the towel rail becomes a towel rack. As Midwest said "who wants warm towels" (in summer)?

That’s not a very well designed system then.
Normally you’d have the towel rails connected the the primaries so that they come on with the hot water during the summer, or connected to a separate zone with its own control.

The point is to dry the towels rather than have them sat there damp for extended periods.

 

[Midwest]

So you dont even have even have local isolation for the towel rail or UFH? Its up some stairwell in another room? This setup sounds retarded dude, sorry.

I've read in some threads, where members are happy to isolate a cooker appliance, by the mcb in the CU. At least this has some form of isolation, other than a mcb.

However, as there is a supply to the UFH, there is some local connection to the cold tails, one could place a local isolator somewhere convenient?

 

[Octopus]

Local isolation is an interesting point which I doubt that the 18th edition will clarify.

Did an EICR yesterday. The fridge was on a dedicated radial..... Fridge was built in, no access to socket...

 

[telectrix]

just leave the towels on the floor. UFH will dry them.

 

[pirate]

My mate Graeme has a shower-room next his utility, so he sticks his towel in the tumble-drier before he has his shower, so it is nice and warm for when he comes out...sissy!
(I bet he just chucks the wet towel back in the drier too...)