Underfloor heating but for walls!

[Kai1981]

I was listening to a podcast where someone suggested using the mesh or cable usually used for electric underfloor heating in bathroom walls. They suggested this as an alternative to a towel rail (e.g. if you hang your towel on a hook nearby it dries but doesn't cover up the heat source as a towel on a rail would do).

Has anyone tried this before?!

We considered it - it’s exactly as you describe, the UFH pad goes under the plaster.

I was up for it but the builder said it’s immensely tricky and regularly goes wrong, so we ditched the idea.

That might have been builder speak for ‘I’ve not done it before and can’t be bothered to learn’, though.

I suppose the issue with wall or floor heating is always that it can stop working and you have to dig it out whereas with a towel rail it's less messy to fix usually.

Currently doing this to create a laundry cupboard/room on first floor with limited space.

The pads are going on one wall which is to be tiled. There will also be a pull out hanging rack on the wall to dry stuff and a de-humidifier to get rid of the damp.

I hope it means we can store linen above washer and dryer (on floor) and dry stuff.

A switch will turn it on or off.

Ps builder is finding it a faff, but it was in the quote so.....

I've done this before but behind a bathroom mirror as a de-mister as well as a heat source, it worked pretty well.

@Witchlight that’s really clever. Please let us know if it’s as good as it sounds. I might steal the idea for my build...

Will do, I get the site back (9 month refurb/build) at the end of April. I’ll post photos. It’s halfway between a very grand laundry cupboard and a limited (laundry only) utility, crafted into a space of 1300x1300mm