One bedroom cottage is electrically heated no central heating.

Sized the bathroom and need a 500 watts electric towel radiator to keep it 
at 21C when it is 0C outside.

So when it is say 5C to 10C outside how do you control the temperature as I 
assume you cannot have a thermostat on the towel radiator in the bathroom. 
Wet hands on electrical controls etc.

Can you get a remote thermostatic sensor in the bathroom controlled from a 
box in the hall outside.

For safety I assume it must go through an RCD.

That Bloke  wrote:

> One bedroom cottage is electrically heated no central heating.
> 
> Sized the bathroom and need a 500 watts electric towel radiator to keep it 
> at 21C when it is 0C outside.
> 
> So when it is say 5C to 10C outside how do you control the temperature as I 
> assume you cannot have a thermostat on the towel radiator in the bathroom. 
> Wet hands on electrical controls etc.
> 
> Can you get a remote thermostatic sensor in the bathroom controlled from a 
> box in the hall outside.


As a test.
100W heater (a light bulb) should heat it to 5.2C above ambient.
Does it do this?
Is there any need to have the thermostat adjustable?

In article <43188e98$0$17469$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net>,
	"That Bloke"  writes:

>One bedroom cottage is electrically heated no central heating.
>
>Sized the bathroom and need a 500 watts electric towel radiator to keep it 
>at 21C when it is 0C outside.


A towel rail doesn't heat a room when it's got towels on it.
By all means install one to help dry the towels, but don't
expect it to heat the room -- the towels thermally insulate
it.

Before I had central heating, I used a wall mounted downflow
fan heater in the bathroom. This worked very well -- it was
2kW, automatically switching down to 1kW when room gets to
something like 24C. Actually, I have retained it even though
the house now has central heating and the boiler's in the
bathroom -- it's nice to be able to stand under it as a sort
of whole body drier when you step out of the bath or shower.
It's a Dimplex one. They still make such heaters, and I think
you can even get them with run-on timers nowadays.

A 2kW heater only needs to be operated when someone's in the
bathroom.

-- 
Andrew Gabriel

This is for a friends house

We have 1.8m high towel radiators in both our bathrooms heated from the 
central heating. They both have towels on and are the only source of heat in 
each bathroom. They have no problem heating our bathrooms.

In this case it would be circa 1,400 mm by 600 mm

"Andrew Gabriel"  wrote in message 
news:431895ea$0$38041$5a6aecb4@news.aaisp.net.uk...

> In article <43188e98$0$17469$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net>,
> "That Bloke"  writes:
>
> A towel rail doesn't heat a room when it's got towels on it.
> By all means install one to help dry the towels, but don't
> expect it to heat the room -- the towels thermally insulate
> it.

In article <43188e98$0$17469$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net>,
   That Bloke  wrote:

> One bedroom cottage is electrically heated no central heating.

> Sized the bathroom and need a 500 watts electric towel radiator to keep
> it at 21C when it is 0C outside.


Is the bathroom the size of a cupboard?

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Plowman (News)" 

>
> Is the bathroom the size of a cupboard?
>

Yes, when you get the bath, wc and washhand basin installed, it is a bit
tight. It is 1.7 m wide and about 2.2 m long but the cupboard in the next
door bedroom steals sum of that.

Dimplex do a remote temperature controller that will do the trick.

andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) writes:

>In article <43188e98$0$17469$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net>,
>	"That Bloke"  writes:
>>One bedroom cottage is electrically heated no central heating.
>>
>>Sized the bathroom and need a 500 watts electric towel radiator to keep it 
>>at 21C when it is 0C outside.
>
>A towel rail doesn't heat a room when it's got towels on it.


So, where does the energy go, then?

:o)

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Huge  wrote:

> andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) writes:
>>In article <43188e98$0$17469$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net>,
>>       "That Bloke"  writes:
>>>One bedroom cottage is electrically heated no central heating.
>>>
>>>Sized the bathroom and need a 500 watts electric towel radiator to keep it 
>>>at 21C when it is 0C outside.
>>
>>A towel rail doesn't heat a room when it's got towels on it.
> 
> So, where does the energy go, then?
> 


I think most of them have a thermostat.
If insulated with big fluffy towels, 500W goes a long way towards having
an unexpectedly toasty bathroom.