Todays Problem, Controls For Bathroom Towel Rail

[ProDave]

Customer has thrown a good one at me.

Re fitting a shower room. Wants an electric towel rail.

Does NOT want the switch for it outside the room.  Does NOT want a pull cord.  Wants it on a timer.

Anyone know a suitable timer for a 150W heating element that's IP rated and can be used on the wall inside the shower room?

 

[Jono Pashley]

None pretty enough to be on display...

 

[Evans Electric]

Wish you luck with that one  Dave .

 

[kerching]

All the ones i have seen would look sh'ite in a garden!.....they possibly box in under the basin and you fit it in there?

OR get them to supply you with one!?

 

[ProDave]

Customer says "just put a timer in an IP rated box"  

I get the impression it doesn't matter what it looks like as long as it's in the room.

It's an en-suite, and he doesn't want anything on the wall in the bedroom.

I'm going to suggest in a cupboard but that's some distance from the shower room.

 

[Evans Electric]

I'd do what he wants ....IP box  has to be openable with a tool  so hang a screwdriver off it with some sink plug chain.  :innocent

 

[monkey5]

theres one in screwfix item number 64054

wayne

 

[ProDave]

theres one in screwfix item number 64054

wayne

Nice try, for which you have earned a scoob.

But when they say a "timer" they mean a time clock so it turns on at a certain time of day and off again at another time etc, not a boost timer.

 

[steptoe]

mmmm,

could you put something 'in' the ceiling?

assuming this is upstairs, so a loft above, the ceiling would be 'out of zone' possibly, and use one of those access hatch type things someone pointed me to previously for gaining access to it,

 

[NozSpark]

How much scope do you have in smashing hell out of the bathroom??

You could fit one of them behind tile proximity touch pad things with a timer and contactor hidden away

 

[kme]

"Boost timer"????

S`easy.

push switch in bathroom, onto lovato TMM1, which controls the heater

The inputs can be SELV

???

 

[Richard-the-Ninth]

What's wrong with

From Here

and put it in

From Here

 

[ProDave]

That's what Evan's suggested, and leave a screwdriver hanging on a chain.

As they want it on a timer to come on and off at certain times of day, I am just going to suggest the timer is mounted remotely in a cupboard about 15 feet away. Surely the point of a timer is you don't ever need to touch it, apart from perhaps turn it off if you are going away.

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

Are they aware of this sort of time clock, that could go outside

http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Main_Index/Timers_Index/Immersion_Heater_Timers_1/index.html

 

[ProDave]

Yes but this is an en-suite bathroom so "outside" means on the bedroom wall, which they do not want.

I'll see him next Tuesday and see if he will go for "in the cupboard down the corridor" since there will rarely be any need to touch the timer.

 

[pewter]

If a new circuit timer at or in consumer unit.