Choosing a Towel Radiator for Your New Bathroom

Decorating can be fun! The planning, the prettying, and the design: they are a great way to let your artistic side shine.  However, some aspects of design require a little bit of technical knowhow, and one area is radiators. You need to choose your towel radiators carefully to ensure that they’re right for the room. There are several angles to this: the size, the heat output, the finish, and of course, the style. Below, we have provided you with a brief guide to choosing towel radiators for your bathroom. Hopefully, by the time you reach the end of the article, we will have settled much of your stress and worry.

When Will You Use the Radiator?

This sounds like a silly question and most people will answer, ‘when it’s cold, duh!’ While that may be true for the other radiators in your home, for the bathroom heaters this may not be the case. Firstly, you use them to dry your towels, and they’ll require drying throughout the summer months. Secondly, you don’t want the heating on in the bathroom if you only use the room in the morning – that’s just a waste of energy, and consequently, money.

In the bathroom, it makes most sense to have a dual fuel radiator. This is one that you can connect to the central heating system, and so have on when the rest of the system is working; but you can also use it as a standalone heater – meaning that you don’t need to switch on the entire central heating system simply to dry your towels.

The duel-fuel models are much more economical.

How Much Power Do You Need?

It’s usual to calculate the amount of heat that you require by taking the room measurements. Once you have the measurements (height, depth, and width), you can then calculate how many British Thermal Units per hour it takes to heat the room. Don’t worry, there are online calculators to help you work this out, all you need are the measurements.

Generally speaking, the British Thermal Unit per hour measurement directly relates to the size of the radiator. The larger the radiator, the more heat it can radiate. You must bare this in mind because bathrooms are relatively small. It is usual to buy a vertical radiator for use in the bathroom.

What Material Do You Want?

You can buy radiators in all manner of materials: cast iron, stainless steel, aluminium, chrome, etc. However, our personal recommendations are for stainless steel towel radiators. This is because stainless steel is much more efficient in the bathroom. Here’s why:

1.It heats up and cools down quickly, which means that you have much better control over the heating. This is important in a bathroom because it often gets used on an ad hoc basis, and it often requires quick heating.

2.Stainless steel towel radiators are easier to clean. When they’re splashed with water, you simply wipe it off. It doesn’t leave a residue or calcium deposits.

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It’s So pretty You’ll Just Want To Stroke It!

Now I have your attention you might be surprised to learn that this is all about central heating radiators, but seriously, if you have not taken a look at these designer radiators you are missing out on products that have nothing in common with the standard white panel.

To begin with there is the sheer volume of different shapes and makes as well as different materials. Most are stainless steel, chrome, or aluminium with stainless steel being the most popular for the bathroom.

Stainless steel towel radiators are just the thing for bathrooms as they do not suffer rust and few atmospheres are as changeable as the bathroom where steam and temperature changes over the years can be corrosive to other metal finishes.

In this category alone there is an astonishing choice of over one hundred models from several top manufacturers but all available under the one roof of Designer Radiators Direct.

If you have in your mind the idea that there can only possibly be a handful of different towel radiators then take a look at this one website where single rail to multiple rails and ‘L’ shaped, bench versions and even one finished in siltstone are on view.

The latter can bring vibrant colour to the bathroom and is a little known product essentially ninety per cent natural quartz with resins and additives added to create what is fast becoming the flavour of the year in kitchen work tops.

As you would expect with such a huge choice there is also a full range of prices to suit all budgets. When ordering radiators from this site do not forget to also order the correct thermostatic valves and definitely do consider the programmable ones that can help manage on/off times and thereby assist in saving running costs.

Stainless steel retains a shine and requires hardly any maintenance other than an occasional polish with a soft cloth. It is a very tactile alloy that radiates heat faster than most other material and is a practical as it is beautiful with these stunning designs.

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