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Im using a small panel heater in my bathroom at the moment, but it seems a heated towel rail will be better at drying my towel and keeping the bathroom warm.
I thought you could only get fluid filled ones, but now I've seen you can get dry ones too, which do you have and did you get the right one?
I have a small bathroom and I have a timer plug/socket on my heater at the moment so it goes on/off throughout the day to save money instead of leaving it on the 24hrs a day.
I was just thinking with using the timer, if the fluid one takes too long to heat up, the the timer could switch it off before it can really do anything, or do they heat up quite fast?
If both can be thermostat controlled, then I suspect you'd get the same performance. Think of Delonghi Oil Radiators - great for garages/conservatories - they only need to click on or off to maintain the oil temperature, so are relatively cheap to run. I assume your panel heater isn't thermostatically controlled, hence the timer.
I got one put in my bathroom last year:
- fluid filled towel rail as a part of the central heating system. CH comes on, towel rail gets warm.
- electric element added
- electric controller added. This allows me to set a program (24h/7 day programs are available) but I only really use it to do a 1 hour boost, to get towels dry if I know the CH isn't going to come on.
- a towel rail isn't as good at putting heat in to the room than a proper radiator, so you may need a bigger towel rail than you have radiator.
- a bigger towel rail can dry more towels...
I did same as JT above. Towel rail on CH with extra thingy and timer worked by witchcraft for when the CH is verboten (May - Nov inclusive).