Owning your own home

Honestly I’ve never heard of the hot water heating a rad unless it’s been piped wrong.

Baths... inset, looking at a couple of Bette models

Just thought - if you are buying Bette is this any good to you? https://www.bathroomsatsourceonline.co.uk/Set-of-Bette-Universal-Bath-Feet-CradleBEB23-1500

I ended up with a spare when we did our bathroom. Welcome to have it for free (or postage if outside NE London)

Oh yes! Totally (although your username is making me doubt my choice... ) that would be very much appreciated! Totally forgot to buy them with the bath.

Let me double check they'll fit and I'll pop over in the new year with a bottle or two as payment if so?

Mine seems okay although I can't say I got much anyway.

How much do you tip the removal men?

Is it just the case that in laymans terms it's the hot water but to a plumber it's a loop connected to the boiler that supplies the towel rail.

I'm pretty sure ours is hot in the summer but I've never really felt the need for a towel to be warm in the summer and they usually dry quite well between uses.

£50 here, for a pair.

Brilliant, just let me know. We'll hang on to them till we hear from you.

Four guys who worked all day - £30 each no idea if that was over/under but nobody seemed unhappy

Sounds interesting. Any pics?

So on a combi system you always need one radiator thats a bypass thats always on. This rad you dont put a thermostat on so it is only on. Thats what your towel rad could be and without seeing it Id put that a good guess from experience.

But also the best thing about a combi is that you can have heating and hot water completely separate, so as Ive said already if your heating is off and your radiator is on theres an issue but without seeing the actually way your system is or you might have a heat only boiler or a system boiler theres so many variations and things that could be the cause of the problem.

A radiator will never be piped into the hot water and if it is, then it should be changed as thats wrong.

The system is a boiler with a megaflow not a combi. I will double check if it operates with the c/heating off in the summer!

It occasionally gets brought up on the forum that people want the towel rail to be hot in the summer, based on what you are saying that can't happen with a combi. Unless you leave the CH on and rely on trv's to stop the rads operating.

Could be a motorised value that isn't working fully but you'd need to check it out when the hot water is on itself and see if the heating pipes are still heating when its on itself.

Thats the beauty of TRV's you can turn them off as and what you want to heat to not.

Thats the beauty of TRV's you can turn them off as and what you want to heat to not.

Does mean the boiler still shunts the water around the entire heating circuit (if not the rads) only to heat a towel rail presumably with the stat and timer bypassed or shut down.

Which is why you get to combination fuel towel heaters - it’s a headfuck to do it with the boiler in the summer.

Could be a motorised value that isn't working fully

I think I have that problem. In the summer when the hot water is on the radiators come on too. TRVs help but I really need to get the valve checked/replaced.

It's more likely that it's functioning as the bypass and doesn't come on in the summer. Both the motorised valves have been replaced over the last 20 years so it's possible there was a summer when the valve was faulty which has made me think it's stays hot.

Mind boggling at the fact that people would have a towel rail hot all summer.

Those crazy fools, what on earth are they thinking of?

Think I did £20 or £30 each. Everyone seemed happy with that.

Anyone in SE London have a multi tool I can borrow for a couple of days?

What was the issue with the previous staircase? And how come all of it needed replacing, rather than sections?

6 roller blinds cut to size and hung in the living room and bedroom to replace the manky curtains and Venetian blinds. This was after cleaning the inside of one of eight window panes, in the bedroom, where the guy who didn't smoke slept.

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It's all pipes & elbows to me.

What I know is that the towels rails come on when the water is on, and not at any other time, and that there is a zone valve that is controlled by the hot water part of the controller.

What I don't know is wtf is happening with the pipes, having spent the last 30 minutes just staring at them.

Best guess is that I actually have a separate radiator zone for the towel rails, where the zone valve is called along with the hot water & boiler.

Which kind of makes sense, as I poured a bottle of fernox into the towel rad a couple of years ago, so should have realised that it's not fresh water in there.

I realise that saying it was t-d off the hot water was entirely incorrect!

Bathroom tiles going in.

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I have a cheepo one you can borrow in brockley