Towel rails: easy to install right? Wrong.

[ToughButterCup]

Installing an electrically heated towel rail is usually simple. Unless you throw the fittings away and then burn them and their packaging. Bummer.

At least I didn't  throw the electric heating element away.  Tiredness does more than kill. It makes ya do stoopid stuff.

 

This is the radiator I want to fix onto a PB wall,

 

and since I havent got the fixings any more , I was going to try to do it with these proprietory fixings ( trade name forgotten , but 90Kg per fixing claimed in PB - more than enough)

 

But this is the threaded attachment hole in the radiator - which has a blanked off end. Not only that, the hole is M8 I think, one size bigger than the fixings (above) I have to hand. Damn.

The studs behind the PB are not in line with the fixings on the rad. If they were, it'd be fixed by now.

 

Before I take the PB off and mount noggins behind where the fixings will be, I thought I'd ask for advice please ..... 

Edited January 10, 2021 by ToughButterCup

[ProDave]

My take would be phone the supplier and say "I have searched everywhere in the box and all the packaging, and I can't find the fixings that attach it to the wall"  

 

And delete this thread PDQ

[Gav_P]

Yup... that’s what I’d do too! 

[joe90]

26 minutes ago, ProDave said:

My take would be phone the supplier and say "I have searched everywhere in the box and all the packaging, and I can't find the fixings that attach it to the wall"  

 

And delete this thread PDQ

and me (have done that myself in the past, usually works). (Self delete in 3, 2, 1)

[Temp]

If that doesn't work I think there are brackets like this that are designed to be fixed to the wall and the rad hangs on them? Not used them myself.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Chrome-brackets-for-towel-RAIL-radiator-Flat-Or-Curved-Wall-Fixing-FAST-SHIP/251736072301?hash=item3a9ca3a06d:g:oGQAAOSwD0lUeG9d

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Universal-Chrome-Bracket-For-Flat-Or-Curved-Radiators-CHROME-Towel-Radiators/184371533481?hash=item2aed6656a9:g:L-YAAOSwnJJfFs5O

 

You might even be able to put them into the studs if the rad is wide enough? 

 

Otherwise I'd put a pan head screw into the threaded holes on the rad and make "keyhole plates" to fix to the wall.

 

Edited January 10, 2021 by Temp

[Mr Punter]

1 hour ago, ToughButterCup said:

and since I havent got the fixings any more , I was going to try to do it with these proprietory fixings ( trade name forgotten , but 90Kg per fixing claimed in PB - more than enough)

 

Grip It

 

I once fitted some legs to an Ikea table, then found some 6mm spacers in the fittings pack.  Sure enough, I turned the table upright only to see that the screws had gone through the top.  I think they did the tops in different thicknesses and mine was thin!  I sent it back and got refunded on the basis of a small chip in the corner...

[joe90]

Personally I would not hang a towel radiator on plasterboard fixings, a wet towel dragged off it will create sideways stress, noggins all the way fir me.

[ToughButterCup]

You bad men.  Bad bad bad men. 

Anyway I am not allowed to delete threads anymore am I.....

[ProDave]

5 minutes ago, ToughButterCup said:

You bad men.  Bad bad bad men. 

Anyway I am not allowed to delete threads anymore am I.....

Just say the word and it will be disappeared.

[JFDIY]

The parts you are missing will be some tube (square or round) with a washer welded about 5-10mm down from the end. Will be pillar/stand-off of about 75mm long.

That bit bolts to the radiator.

There is then a plastic bobbin you fix to the wall, mine had a recess cut in the outside. You fit the rad to the bobbins then a grub screw in the side of the stand-off locates into the recess of the bobbin.

 

I'd go with the others above and plead ignorance to start with.

 

[JFDIY]

@ToughButterCup not sure if you need the info now or not, here is a pic of the stand-offs and bobbins my towel radiator uses for mounts. Bobbins go on wall, standoffs on rad, grub screw through the side of standoff holds it in place

[ToughButterCup]

Thanks for the thought. I rang Gyser, and they were very good: no questions, they just sent me a replacement FOC.

Took a week, but TwinkleToes now has warm towels, warm floor, warm water. And I have Brownie Points

Cheers @JFDIY !

[JFDIY]

1 hour ago, ToughButterCup said:

Thanks for the thought. I rang Gyser, and they were very good: no questions, they just sent me a replacement FOC.

Took a week, but TwinkleToes now has warm towels, warm floor, warm water. And I have Brownie Points

Cheers @JFDIY !

Don't let @Onoff know, it's only 6⁰ in his bathroom, bet Mrs onoff is well impressed