Is a towel radiator mandatory?

The claim that a (somewhat large) towel radiator does not contribute to supporting room heating is absolutely not true. On the highest setting, the radiator (electrically) gets really warm to hot and does so very quickly. And even in our approximately 15m² bathroom, you can clearly notice whether it is on or not. In winter, we turn it on between 30 - 60 minutes before showering, then you can clearly feel it as mentioned, and the towels are almost like they came out of a mangle (if anyone still knows what that is).

Towel warmers cannot replace a heater anyway, they only warm the towel, as the name already says.

I have to disagree with you there.

At the very beginning, we once forgot to turn off our towel radiator in the main bathroom after showering in the evening.

The next morning, the temperature in the not exactly small bathroom was just over 29°C.

A appropriately sized towel radiator can therefore certainly also be used for effective supplementary heating.

Best regards,

Dirk

Do you have gas? With a heat pump, you wouldn't manage that at significantly < 30 degrees flow temperature...

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No, we have an air-to-water heat pump from Tecalor.

The heat pump alone easily gets the bathroom up to 23°C with a flow temperature currently at 27°C.

We only reached 29°C because our (electric) towel radiator was accidentally on all night.

Regards,

Dirk

Do you have gas? With a heat pump you wouldn’t be able to manage that at well below 30 degrees flow temperature...

: No, we have an air-to-water heat pump from Tecalor. The heat pump alone easily heats the bathroom to 23°C with a current flow temperature of 27°C. We only reached 29°C because our (electric) towel radiator was accidentally on all night. Regards, Dirk

At what outside temperature do you have the 27 degrees flow temperature?

We gradually lowered the flow temperature last year in January/February from initially 29° (setting by the installer who put the system into operation) to the current 27°.

The adjustments were made (as the installer explained to us) in steps of 0.5° and three to five days apart, because with the originally set flow temperature it was clearly too warm (up to 26°) inside the house...

Since then, we have been satisfied with this setting at outside temperatures down to -15°.

If it occasionally got too cool for us, we "fought" it with our soapstone stove on the ground floor – thanks to a fairly open architecture and the controlled residential ventilation, its heat reliably spread through the ground floor and upper floor.

Regards,

Dirk