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Wet Bathroom Towel Rail Fault.

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   A customer reported that her towel rail did not heat up when using the electric heating element of her towel rail. It heats up via the gas boiler though. Upon investigation I found that the electric element was open circuit. But, to replace the element the towel rail needs to be drained down. That's a plumbers job, I am not going to do that. Also, there are no isolation valves for the tower rail.  Modern designs can be a pain. The towel rail is quite new and has had little use. I don't think that the element has been used dry. I wonder if the installer has dropped the towel rail onto the electrical connection located bottom right. Perhaps a plumber could freeze the pipes to allow the element to be replaced?

Z.

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    normally such things would be installed like a radiator, so there would be a control valve at one end and a lockshield or similar isolator at the other. Turning both to off isolates the rad/towel rail from the rest of circuit, and In  such a case only a rad full of water is lost, this is how you can paint or put wallpaper behind the radiators without a full drain-down.

    If it really has been installed without isolators, it would be sensible for the householder to get some added but to combine it with a flush out and new corrosion inhibitor at the same time as getting a new element fitted.

    Mike.

     

     

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    normally such things would be installed like a radiator, so there would be a control valve at one end and a lockshield or similar isolator at the other. Turning both to off isolates the rad/towel rail from the rest of circuit, and In  such a case only a rad full of water is lost, this is how you can paint or put wallpaper behind the radiators without a full drain-down.

    If it really has been installed without isolators, it would be sensible for the householder to get some added but to combine it with a flush out and new corrosion inhibitor at the same time as getting a new element fitted.

    Mike.

     

     

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