Bathroom heating is important for helping to dry out this high-moisture room while keeping humidity levels balanced. Transforming this environment into a warm, cosy space, heating the bathroom well can create the most inviting of spaces for all users throughout the year.
The perfect heating solution for a bathroom will depend on individual bathroom layouts. There are several types of heating for bathroom spaces, ensuring there's a perfect heat source for every home.
The Bathroom Showroom offers a helpful guide to help you select the best heating solution for your customer's bathroom.
What Customers Need to Know Before Installing Bathroom Heating
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When choosing bathroom heating solutions, the size and indeed shape of the room need careful consideration. For those large bathroom spaces, several options will work well, yet for small restricted bathroom spaces, choices may well be limited and depend on how well they fit into the existing space. Likewise, for those large bathrooms, the main focus will be on ensuring the heat is sufficient and can be evenly distributed across the entire room.
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What are the budget requirements? Bathroom heating can vary greatly in price, with towel rails the less expensive, whereas underfloor heating can be a bigger investment. Yet, running costs may also be a concern with some customers, particularly over the long term. This will mean considering whether the heating is to be left on throughout the day or just switched on each time the room is used.
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Who will be using the bathroom? For those homes with young children, safety will be a priority. So, heating choices will need to accommodate young members in this room. For those spaces whereby getting the best look is more of a priority, then a more stylistic choice may be the top-consideration.
How to Heat a Bathroom
There are three popular ways to heat a bathroom including radiators, underfloor heating, and heated towel rails.
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Radiators
A bathroom radiator works by heating the entire area by producing a convection heat that is circulated around the room. With an emphasis on eliminating cold spots in correctly insulated bathrooms, radiators work from the home's central heating system and work to keep the room dry.
Boasting a larger surface area, radiators can quickly heat the surrounding space providing a warm and cosy feel. Offering a selection of styles and options to suit both small and large bathroom sizes and designs, the most common choices include traditional column radiators and panel radiators.
Yet, radiators will need ongoing maintenance in the way of bleeding and flushing to ensure they operate at maximum performance.
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Underfloor Heating
Underfloor heating is becoming increasingly popular with homeowners thanks to its cost-effectiveness when running long-term. Though requiring an initial outlay, underfloor heating runs at lower temperatures than conventional radiators, keeping a consistent temperature and low energy bills, and very little maintenance.
Creating an inviting and luxurious feel underfoot, underfloor heating is a safe option for young members of the home. Eliminating the need for radiators, underfloor heating works exceptionally well in small rooms. It’s also a healthier choice as it produces radiant heat, keeping the movement of dust minimal.
Helping the bathroom to dry out quicker, underfloor heating helps control and balance humidity levels.
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Heated Towel Rails
Heated towel rails are perfect as small bathroom heating options, and they can also lend a hand to design features in larger bathrooms.
Offering a solution to keep those damp towels off the floor, heated towel rails are primarily concerned with heating a specific area on the wall. Quicker to reach temperature than a radiator, these rail types create a cosy and comfortable feel while ensuring the area they’re installed in benefits from an additional heat source.
Space-saving solutions, heated towel rails can usually provide adequate heat for small bathrooms and en-suites or can double up as design features in those larger bathrooms that already have a main heating source.
Heating Solutions From The Bathroom Showroom
The Bathroom Showroom sells several bathroom heating solutions to suit all customer requirements. From iflo and Heritage to TowelRads and Prowarm, we have a selection of heating fixtures to accommodate all bathroom sizes and designs.
If you're looking to shop bathroom heating for your customer, speak to us at the bathroom showroom. With over 280 showrooms and a renowned history of working with the trade, we're the experts in all things bathrooms.