How Much Does It Cost To Fit a Heated Towel Rail?



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Cost To Fit a Heated Towel Rail

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labour
1
Fitting an electric towel rail will take one man a day. Ideally he will route his cables under the floor but if not he will hide them in trunking at skirting level. 1 man 1 day.
£200

Plus materials etc. for the above
£225
2
Fitting a water filled towel rail, connected to either the radiator or hot water circuits, assuming the floor boards are accessible (no floating wooden floors present). This will take 2 men a day
£300

Plus materials etc. for the above
£120
3
If you want a water filled rail with a decent heat output add
£200




“Labour” at £175 a day (tradesman) £100 (labourer), includes incidental fixings etc. and tipping. “Materials” if mentioned, are larger things (a boiler) and stuff only you can choose (tiles etc).  Also VAT must be added all round.

Information Sheet on Replacing/Installing a Heated Towel Rail


What’s wrong with just hanging the towels over the radiator? What happened to “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”? If I’m not mistaken, there’s a daft little frame you can hook over a rad. to hang 2 towels at once isn’t there? There you are then, job done.

For those of you that require perfection though, there are 2 types, electric and water filled. Towel rails don’t chuck out a lot of heat, they dry the towels ok but unless you have a very small bathroom or a rail with an integral radiator, don’t rely on a towel rail to heat the bathroom properly.

The electric ones require that most scary of fittings, an electrical “socket” in the bathroom. For peace of mind and to satisfy the lawmakers, get this done properly! Once the sockets in, the rail is just hung on the wall next to it. Get a timer installed as well.

Water filled ones run off your central heating system. Assuming you already have a radiator in the bathroom, you are either substituting this for a towel rail or adding a towel rail.

Substituting is relatively easy, there’s just a bit of pipe reconfiguration to attend to either above, or preferably below, the floor. But why would you want to do that?
When there’s already a radiator in the bathroom, a sensible consideration is a towel rail connected in such a way that you can dry your towels in summer, when the rest of the system is off. (Get the engineer to explain just how).

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  • Potential problems with regards to this job…

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    If you want to replace a radiator in your bathroom with a towel rail, you may have to lift the bathroom floor in order to access the pipes below - they WILL BE different widths - or put up with twisty, elbowed pipe-work that is visible and will always annoy you!


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