Towel radiator with underfloor heating - does it get warm?

  • Erstellt am 2020-09-21 20:26:16

SebastianH.

2020-09-29 14:21:26
  • #1
What is recommended as a radiator in the bathroom when you have underfloor heating? Do you then not need a radiator at all? I wouldn’t install one just for "Handtuch trocknen".
 

Pinky0301

2020-09-29 14:29:59
  • #2
We do not have and never had one. I just consider those things a waste of space and dust collectors. In the current transitional apartment there is one, but I have never turned it on. If the underfloor heating is properly designed, you don't need an additional radiator. If you do want one, it should be electric.
 

Dogma

2020-09-29 14:30:02
  • #3
I still know it like this that there is always one offered because a higher room temperature has to be reached in bathrooms. I believe 24 degrees, other rooms were, I think, 21 degrees. If the distance between the heating loops is too large (15-20 cm, for example), then the heating output in the bathroom can already be too low.
 

face26

2020-09-29 14:42:02
  • #4
I question the "scheme" of . I claim:

- The water heating coil for the controlled residential ventilation is not really necessary, significantly less efficient than underfloor heating, and has additional investment costs that do not pay off.
- If I understood correctly, there is a mixing valve, but in the end the water from the underfloor heating still mixes with that of the radiator, which is not so good because radiators cause dirt.
- Even though it is not as dramatic with gas as with a heat pump, 45 degrees flow temperature is unnecessary, especially since underfloor heating does not need it in a house built according to the current energy saving ordinance standard. They are therefore only maintained because of the towel radiator.

Those who are afraid that the bathroom will not be warm enough should simply have it designed properly. And if the room-specific heating load calculation shows that the bathroom does not reach the desired temperature at the desired flow temperature, then have it laid closer together and instead of the towel radiator have a few meters of pipe installed on the wall. In the end, it probably does not cost more than the radiator plus the required mixing valve and without the mentioned disadvantages.
 

Bookstar

2020-09-29 14:56:38
  • #5
You can forget that with a heat pump. A temperature difference of 3 degrees is not possible. Anyone who wants that definitely needs an electric auxiliary heater. But I also don't understand why you would need such a high temperature permanently in the bathroom. We run a small electric fan heater.
 

pagoni2020

2020-09-29 15:00:08
  • #6

Some time ago, underfloor heating plus one towel radiator each was installed here, everything rather makeshift according to what I have read here in the meantime. Therefore, a properly sized system will be installed in the house (at least my attempt) or it will be a classic radiator heating. The underfloor heating here is annoying and uncomfortable, and regarding the question of towel radiators... they just don’t work, you can turn the knob for hours or whatever.
It’s something special here, so new buildings definitely won’t have them or only ones with an electric heating cartridge or whatever it’s called, i.e., independent of the underfloor heating.
 

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