Installing a towel heater beside a radiator

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Would it be disruptive to install a heated towel rail beside an existing radiator? There's not good access under the floorboards and I don't want to have to lift the flooring from inside the bathroom as its 8 years old so we couldn't successfully patch it.
Is there a solution that let's me have it installed via the existing radiator plumbing "above ground" as it were?

If you get a towel radiator you can get rid of the normal radiator. You don't need both

Agree with the suggestion that if you have towel radiator you don't need the other radiator as it works as both.

I'm not really understanding what you want here. To put a towel heater next to a radiator you'd have to lift the floor to run the plumbing to the new position next to the radiator.

Why do you want both next to each other? I'd just take the radiator off and attach a towel heater on to the existing pipework that currently has the radiator on. No need to touch the flooring.

A towel heater is just a fancy shaped radiator.

I'm our last house, we installed a heated towel rail instead if a radiator. The plumber said not to as it wouldn't heat the room sufficiently. We went ahead anyway. Right enough, it was was freezing cold bathroom.

We have towel heaters instead of radiators and they heat the bathrooms very well.
You have to use the measurements of the room to determine the heater you buy, so that it gives sufficient heat for the size of the room.
You can't really buy any old heater or radiator as it may not give off enough heat (can't remember what the measurement of heat they use is called)

I have three full bathrooms and one loo. All are solely heated by the towell rail and are perfectly adequate. They are a good size (other than loo), about 180cm high. Maybe a different style or brand?

I looked it up it's called the BTU calculation

Google BTU calculator and work out how much heat output you need to heat your room, then search for towel rails based on that heat output. Chrome towel rails always give out less heat than coloured ones. Can’t remember why.

Completely agree with Undom you just need the right heated towel radiator for your sized bathroom.

I think I have these except they are not half way up the wall, just replaced the radiators we had www.geyser.co.uk/chrome-straight-ladder-slim-space-saving-heated-towel-rail-1200mm-high-x-400mm-wide

So Dh and I can both get our bath sheet on, he uses the bottom section and I fold and hang mine at the the top. We also have heated electric elements in them on a timer so that in summer when the heating isn't on the towels are still dried after morning showers. The children have the same one in their bathroom with the same set up.

Our en-suite and the boys' bathroom have never been cold.

We've got a towel heater instead of a radiator in the bathroom and never had an issue with cold! Surely you have one or the other not both next to each other?

Its a big bathroom so we have the space but i hear you all. Thanks for the inputs. Will have a ponder.

If you dont want to replace it and you have radiators upstairs you may be able to drop down fr the above circuit... probably easier to patch the ceiling/wall than floor. All our downstairs radiators are drops from above... (made more obvious by the fact that upstairs radiators have pipes into floors whereas downstairs have pipes out of walls.