It's hard to imagine a city apartment without a towel dryer. In most houses built back in Soviet times, a shiny curving pipe in the bathroom symbolized warmth, comfort and prosperity. But nothing lasts forever. An old towel warmer may start to leak or you may want to install a new design in the bathroom.
Before choosing a heated towel rail, let's decide what it is intended for.
Heated towel rails have two purposes: heating a bathroom or a combined bathroom and drying fabric products. The heated towel rail can be used as the main or additional heating device. Towel dryers are also installed to prevent condensation and mildew.
You can dry clothes and heat the bathroom on pipes (water heated towel rails), using electricity (electrical appliances) and combined devices (liquid heat carrier with a heating element).
Look closely at the walls inbathroom, evaluate how cool, damp it is, and you will understand how to choose a heated towel rail. The water version, which was released recently, may well take the place of the old one. Therefore, before dismantling the previous device, take a tape measure and measure it. Pay attention to the connection points with the hot water pipe. Also measure the distance between the incoming and outgoing pipes, determine their diameter. A new heated towel rail may have the same connection parameters. This will make installation easier.
Today, water heated towel rails of various shapes are produced. The design is chosen from catalogs in a store or market. You don’t have to puzzle over how to choose a heated towel rail, but order its manufacture. Then you just draw a sketch of it and give the master the dimensions and diameter for connection. Such a heated towel rail can still be ordered at the factory or in a locksmith's workshop. Some people assemble towel warmers themselves using a pipe bender and a threading die.
The water heated towel rail can be connected to a hot water pipe or to a radiator.
The advantage of a device connected to a radiator: you do not pay for additional use of hot water.
Before choosing a heated towel rail powered by water, you must soberly assess the situation: centralized hot water often stops with the onset of spring.
Effectively heat the bathroom and dry clothes using electricity. But notHurry up for this to buy a heated towel rail. How to choose a device to solve these problems, people's experience suggests. Some citizens install fan heaters in bathrooms. These devices are unpretentious and warm up the air faster than heated towel rails. In this case, you will have to find a fan heater that is protected from moisture. High concentration of steam and water can cause short circuit and electric shock. Therefore, you can install the device outside the bathroom. Then warm air will flow through the corrugated sleeve through the hole in the wall. The fan heater must depend on the switch through which the lighting in the bathroom is powered. Then it will not burn out and will supply warm air only when needed.
The tips above are for those who want to save money. If you don't intend to save money when deciding how to choose a heated towel rail, talk to an interior designer. Sales assistants in the store will also help you decide on the content, form and price.
