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AdamD

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Current one is leaking and is only a half size one so not bothered about fixing as bed a bigger one anyway,  however am really struggling to find a large one which will have the same fixings as the current one as don’t want to be left with exposed holes in the tiles that have been filled. Any ideas?

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Do you have any of the original tile grout? Or could you colour match? 

 

Provided the new rail is in front of it, I doubt you'll notice 3 6mm holes that blend in. 

 

(I moved my towel rail up 6"and filled my fixing holes with grout, you'd never notice unless someone pointed it out) 

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  On 26/10/2023 at 07:11, dpmiller said:

those fixings have a degree of up-down adjustment and just clamp onto the round tubes, almost anything will fit...

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Ah yea, got you. So essentially they should be able to be used on any towel rail so I can simply use those fixings in the same place (plus some at the top) on a larger towel rail?

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  On 26/10/2023 at 07:22, FuerteStu said:

Do you have any of the original tile grout? Or could you colour match? 

 

Provided the new rail is in front of it, I doubt you'll notice 3 6mm holes that blend in. 

 

(I moved my towel rail up 6"and filled my fixing holes with grout, you'd never notice unless someone pointed it out) 

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I don’t think so, was done about 7 years ago but I can see your point about colour matching to fill it if needs be. I’m probably being a bit picky!

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Anything to consider with regard to going up in size from 800mm to 1600mm, other than a few more evenly spaced out screws. Hoping not too heavy for the wall, but am thinking 6 screws should do it? Currently have 3 in th 800mm

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I have a couple of 1600mm Reina Diva Electric Chrome Towel Radiator from Luxus Design. I was less than impressed at installation time that the 4 mounts are 'chromed plastic' - but in practice you don't really notice that. I can't actually remember how they're mounted but the mounts obviously need to be into something strong-ish.

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  On 04/11/2023 at 10:04, AdamD said:

Do I need to put anti freeze in? According to the instructions I do but this is something I hadn’t thought of!

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Yes as it contains a corrosion inhibitor, or you will need a corrosion inhibitor. if it's not connected to anything else, use car antifreeze, cheap easy get hold of.

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  On 04/11/2023 at 10:23, JohnMo said:

Yes as it contains a corrosion inhibitor, or you will need a corrosion inhibitor. if it's not connected to anything else, use car antifreeze, cheap easy get hold of.

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I read you only need it if it’s an electric one. This is connected to the gas pipes like so

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  On 04/11/2023 at 14:25, JohnMo said:

Sorry if you are connected to the CH system, that will have corrosion inhibitors in it ,so you don't need to add anything. If it was electric only you would.

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Excellent news, thanks.

So it should be as simple as remove old one, fix new one to wall and install? 

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