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  1. W

    How do I turn my towel rail off?

    Hi. Ive just moved house and trying to figure out the heating and also save myself some money. I have this towel rail (see below) and cant figure for the life of me how to completely switch it off whilst the heating elsewhere is on. There are 2 valves that can turn but i dont even know which one...
  2. D

    Replacing towel radiator in bathroom - pipe question

    Hi all, I hope you are able to give me some advice. I have recently been upgrading the bathroom and want to replace the towel radiator. I need to move the pipes a metre or so but have come across a sticking point. It looks like my central heating system (combi boiler) is run in 15mm pipe but...
  3. M

    Leaking dual fuel towel rail

    Hi, hoping someone can help. We have a dual fuel towel rail, i.e. connected to the central heating, but with an electric element in one of the "legs". The bottom of the other leg is leaking around what I assume is a blanking plug. This plug has a large hex socket, and I've tried tightening it...
  4. L

    15mm Towel radiator valves with 10mm supply

    I've bought a new chrome towel radiator as the old one is all rusty. I also bought new angled (standard) valves, 1/2" X 15mm as they too are old and rusty. But when I look at what comes out of the wall, it's clearly not 15mm pipe, looks more like 10mm (plastic). How have they gone from 15mm...
  5. A

    How to change blanking plug valve on heated towel rail?

    Hello team, I just noticed that in one of my bathroom, the blanking plug valve on the towel rail is leaking. I just moved in this new house and the valve looks old and the seal a little damaged. Anyway, I just ordered a replacement but I have no idea on what is the process to change that. What...
  6. elvis80

    Towel rail advice - dual fuel, rather than just electric?

    Hopefully this is a quick one... I'm currently building a house (well, my builder is, I'm doing a few of the jobs myself). Originally, we were going to have electric towel rails in the bathrooms, because we were going to have solar panels. We're over budget, so the panels will have to wait...
  7. H

    Towel left in boiler by engineer?

    I took out a boiler insurance policy and an engineer came out first to check if my boiler was in a good condition to go ahead with the policy. The engineer said the pressure was too low and fixed the problem. At the end he said it was all fine and shouldn't be a problem, the water was a bit...
  8. T

    How do I turn this towel rail off?

    Hi, Wonder if anyone can help - I've got this towel rail (pic below) which has two valves on either side (pics on left/right). How do I turn this off? I would like to avoid (a) flooding the house or (b) switching off the entire UK water supply, which knowing my level of plumbing skills from...
  9. V

    Bauhaus RADVS2 towel rail valve leaking

    Hi This valve is leaking just under the square cap. If I want to take the cap off to try to tighten the nut underneath it do I just pull on it? Thanks Vik123
  10. DripsnDropsBognor

    Wanted 550mm chrome towel rail. 1200 high preferably

    Has anyone got one knocking about I'm on the south coast. I have mis quoted a job thinking the towel rail was a 600 with -50mm centres but it was a fancy designer thing with different centres so I need a 500mm centres towel rail. Chrome pipes straight up from floor brand new bathroom. Towel rail...
  11. J

    Heated towel rail fittings

    Hello, anyone using 16mm x 1/2” female wall plate press fittings on multilayer pipe for heated towel rails? Source URL: Fittings & Pipes - https://www.plumbersforums.net/forums/fittings-pipes.23/
  12. T

    Electric Towel Rail Leaking

    Hi, I've been looking all over the place but i can't seem to find the answer to my particular issue so I hope you can help! I have an electric towel rail in my bathroom which is very basic and was installed just under 4 years ago. It was switched on constantly for the whole of winter and when...
  13. M

    Heated Towel Rail Valve Dripping

    Heated Towel Rail Valve Dripping. I was cleaning the bathroom and the heated towel rail and I noticed afterwards there was a very small drip. See Photo. Should I try gently tightening this ? I doubt if I have the correct spanner, would it be a special tool? I could use a rag and some mole...
  14. Marti

    Hot water functioning but suspiciously hot and a towel rail with it's own mind.

    Good Morning Guys, I'm normally over in the Electrician's Forum but my GCH experience normally stops at S and Y connections. Also, my old house was a simple, mains fed combi-boiler and I'm just moved to a place with header and hot water tanks so I'd appreciate your views. I'll call-in a GCH...
  15. milleniumaire

    Dual fuel towel rail

    Hi guys, I would like to tap into your knowledge of dual fuel towel rails. We already have an electric element in our en-suite towel rail/radiator, which was added about 10 years ago and is connected to a timer. In Summer I close off both valves and turn on the timer so we get toasty towels in...
  16. Laura Hardy

    Cold towel rail any thoughts

    So here goes. My bathroom towel rail is cold. All other rads in the house are hot and on both upstairs and downstairs. The feed pipe going into the towel rail is nice and hot but the rail itself is cold. It's has a teeny weeny bit of temp change for about an inch along the bottom rung but I...
  17. B

    How to drain down to remove towel rail AND valves?

    Towel rail needs to be removed so that new flooring can fit over pipes. Therefore the whole thing needs to come off valves and all so that the pipe ends coming up from the floor are exposed. The bottom compression nut and olive can stay on each pipe as there will be big enough holes in the...
  18. P

    Cold Towel Rail Fed By Robbens UFH System

    Hi All, Hoping someone can help with what I thought was a minor problem/easy fix issue with the towel rail in my new-ish house; it is now permanently cold. I'll explain a bit of background, the system set up and some things I've tried so far... Hopefully I'm missing something blindly obvious...
  19. S

    White hairy material around towel heater pipe joint: asbestos?

    I’m wondering weather this stringy stuff (see photos) around my towel heater’s pipe joints could be some kind of fiber/string with asbestos in it? They don’t really look like hemp to me, and I’m a bit worried about it! Thanks
  20. M

    Towel Rail only half heating

    Hi all, I wondered if you could please give me some advice in regards to a towel rail we have just had fitted. This rail is only heating up the top half and not the bottom. This is quite a long towel rail thats been installed in our bathroom. The rail has been installed so the 2 inlets for the...

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