How to choose a towel warmer and save on its use

It is difficult to imagine a city apartment without a device for drying towels. In most of the houses built in the Soviet times, a brilliant curving pipe in the bathroom symbolized warmth, coziness and prosperity. But nothing lasts forever. An old heated towel can start to leak or you will have a desire to install a new design in the bathroom.

Before choosing a towel heater, let's determine what it is intended for.

Towel warmers have two purposes: heating a bathroom or a combined bathroom and drying products from fabrics. The towel heater can be used as a main or additional heating device. Devices for drying towels are also installed to prevent the formation of condensation and mold.

Dry clothes and heat the bathroom is possible on pipes (water towel rails), using electricity (electrical appliances) and combined devices (liquid heat carrier with a heating element).

Look closely at the walls in the bathroom, appreciate how cool it is in it, damp, and you will understand how to choose a towel warmer. The water version, which was released recently, may well become in place of the old one. Therefore, before dismantling the previous device, take the tape measure and measure it. Pay attention to the connection points with the hot water pipe. Also measure the distance between the incoming and outgoing pipes, determine their diameter. A new heated towel can have the same connection parameters. This will facilitate installation.

Today, water towel rails of various shapes are produced. Design is chosen from catalogs in the store or on the market. You can and do not puzzle over how to choose a towel, and order its manufacture. Then you just draw his sketch and give the master the dimensions and diameter for the connection. This towel can still be ordered at the factory or in a metalwork shop. Some collect towel warmers by themselves, using a pipe bender and a thread cutting die.

A water towel can be connected to a pipe with hot water or to a radiator.

The advantage of the device connected to the radiator: you do not pay for the additional use of hot water.

Before choosing a towel warmer working on the water, you must soberly assess the situation: centralized hot water supply often stops with the onset of spring.

It is possible to effectively heat a bathroom and dry clothes with the help of electricity. But take the time to buy a heated towel rail. How to choose a device for solving these problems, suggests the people's experience. Some citizens install fan heaters in the bathrooms. These devices are unpretentious and warm the air faster than towel warmers. In this case, you will need to find a fan heater, protected from moisture. High concentrations of steam and water can cause short circuits and electric shock. Therefore, you can install the device outside the bathroom. Then warm air will flow through the corrugated hose through the hole in the wall. The fan heater must depend on the switch through which the lighting in the bathroom is supplied. Then it will not burn out and will serve warm air only when necessary.

The tips given above are given to those who want to save money. If you do not intend to save, determined on how to choose a towel warmer, talk to the interior designer. Determine the content, form and price, you will also help sales consultants in the store.