Towel warmer in my own bath ?

ScottMP

I will be renovating our main bathroom this spring and will be installing Stadler climate panel o the floor, under the cast iron tub and up the back wall of the tub.

I won't to install a towel warmer and have been playing with how to controll it.

Easyest would be to run it off the return of the floor, water could be to cool to really heat the towels ?

Seperate feed and it runs with the floor but uses high temp water. Would it over heat the room ? I could size it not too.

Most elaborate I came up with is a solinoid flow valve with a delay, that would come on when the hot water was used for more than say 30 seconds ? Therefor only run when the shower was on. Reading to many of HR's post maybe :).

My Buderus Ecomatic runs off the curve so constant circulation might work and shutdown with WWSD.

I think I visit this site to much. Years ago I would have hooked it up :). Know I stand in the shower and think about it.

So what do you guys think ?

Scott

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Dan Peel

TRV

I'd let the panel see your primary loop and use a TRV for local control, if the towel rack you choose will look OK with a TRV. Second choice for me is wall stat and ZV. Slaving off from the floor return will make the towel rack more a decoration than a heat emitter. Enjoy.....Dan

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hr

If you want

year 'round warm towels, consider a seperate zone and stat or setpoint control. The setpoint control could be mounted in the boiler room and the sensor strapped to the return line from the warmer. However with your WWSD that wouldn't work all year..

If you want warm towels 24/7/365 build or buy one to use on a DHW recirc loop. Copper brass or stainless have been my choices! Or powder coat them to your color liking.

To regulate the heat output and prevent overheating the space, throw more towels on 'er..

A double layer of towels will shut down the output considerably, but still warm the goods! Towels are poor conductors I've yet to overheat a bath via towels,:) especially the "Martha Stewart Collection" brand the thick skulled ones

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Troy_3

Electric

I have been advising elec. just for the reason of simple controlability. Cool mornings even in the summer deserve a warm towel. To fire the boiler for a warm towel seems excessive. Just a consideration.

ScottMP

no TRV

I am hoping to use a Myson, which is a nice chrome model that has an older look to match the age of the house.

I thought about the recirc also, but as you said HR, I would have to build it myself. My wife is not as receptive to the home built version.

So I guess its a seperate zone slaved off the floor thermostat, but fi the floors not calling I get no warm towels ?? I guess I could live with that.

By the way HR after years of the same old ones my wife just "invested" in the egyptian cotton towels. Ahhhhh...

Scott

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Steve Paul

towel warmers

I have had extremely good luck running the hot water to the tub or shower valve through the towel warmer before it goes to the shower valve. It only operates when you shower (unless you take cold showers)and usually the average lenghth shower will warm the towels. Why run it off the heating sysytem which may or may not be hot when you need it? If you run it as a seperate zone you have to remember to turn it on everytime you need it. The domestic hot water piping is "AUTOMATIC", nothing to remember and it works even in the summer.

ScottMP

Steve

Does it warm the towels enough ? I am alittle worried about 130 water being hot enough in the middle of a New England winter.

Do they dry completly ?

After this discussion I may just go "gasp" electric.

Allways on, hot towels, east installation.

Scott

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Mark Eatherton1

Speaking of Martha

This may be reality sooner than later...

ME

Steve Paul

TOWEL DRYING

I never really thought much about towel drying. I suppose if you let the water run long enough it would dry the towels, but I always had a hot towel when I was ready to dry off. Then again, if you dried yourself with a slightly damp towel you could finish off with a clothes iron set at "Permenant Press" or the silk setting.

Robert O'Connor_7

Off Topic...........

Mark E, That was great shot of Martha S. She acually hails from a town over from me. Nutley, NJ, was her HUMBLE beginings. DO NOT PASS GO, DO NOT COLLECT $200, GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL........... Robert O'Connor the NJ one