Owning your own home

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.

You can get electric elements for central heating towel radiators so you can use them in Summer without the heating on. Turn off rad so the water doesn't circulate, switch on electric element. We have one, though it's in the guest bathroom so we've never used it after testing to make sure it worked. We got one for the main bathroom but forgot to install it /facepalm.