bathroom towel rail - electric/plumbed/stats...etc..

[RCheshire]

New bathroom. Hot water fed from unvented cylinder. Bathroom will have u/f heating sufficient to warm the room. A heated towel rail therefore is only for warming/drying towels.

Usual consideration of whether to have a towel rail that is plumbed into the hot water supply with an electric element for summer.

I will have a separate stat outside the bathroom door to control the u/f heating on a timer (coming on ~1hr before we use the bathroom and staying on until we finish using it). I'm wondering if it may be worth going for an electric towel rail and controlling both this and the u/f from a single stat as two zones, e.g. u/f come on 6am-8am and towel rail 7am-9am (longer to dry towels that have been used).

Is this an approach anyone has used? Or faced a similar decision and gone for a different solution?

Thanks

If you have a hot water cylinder adjacent, you can have the towel rail plumbed to heat up whenever the cylinder is being heated. This will typically be during and after a bath or shower, which is ideal. Any plumber over 14 will know how to do it.

Thanks. The invented cylinder is readily accessible (adjoins bathroom and floors are up anyway) but I thought that approach has been dropped due to risk of radiator corrosion being returned to the cylinder? Avoid by choosing appropriate radiator I guess.

The tapwater does not mix with the water in the primary circulation from the boiler, which is pumped round the radiators and the coil in the cylinder. This water usually has a corrosion inhibitor chemical mixed in it.

Ok thanks