Heated towel rails

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  1. Liarliar

    Liarliar Well-Known Member

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    Anyone have one? Are they good for drying damp clothes ?

    Im thinking about buying a 5 bar one from Bunnings .

    Do you think they add value ?
     
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  2. neK

    neK Well-Known Member

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    Is this for yourself or for an IP?

    IP = Less stuff to break, the better.
     
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    I think there's better value features you could add to an IP than heated towel rails. Things like dishwashers, built in robes, air cond, etc all add to the rent-ability of the IP whereas I doubt heated towel rails would do much of anything.
     
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  4. Liarliar

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    Nek your right , no its for my own apartment .

    Funny you said that , i was going to put a new heated towel rail in the IP and the Uber driver i had talked me out of it "why would u put a heated towel rail in a IP unless the rent goes up ?, he said . And i thought yes he's right as i am poor and dont have money to waste.
     
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    Liarliar Well-Known Member

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    Your right about the built in robes , i think thats one of the biggest drawn ins for tenants ! !
    Tenants dont like to be lumping up wardrobes in lifts etc in moving in .

    I got a wardrobe from Ikea and tenants said it was a great idea
     
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    One of my IPs in Ballarat, a Period home, didn't come with any built-in. I put these ones from Fantastic Furniture: Solid and durable. Been 2 years still strong and no problem:
    Home 2 Door Wardrobe 1.2m Wide | Bedroom | Bedroom & Mattresses | Categories | Fantastic Furniture
     
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    Liarliar Well-Known Member

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    I get most of my stuff from Fantastic furniture too , but i have find that have more stock online and can deliver which us better for me .

    The built in wardrobes are great .
     
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  8. neK

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    I might add curtains to that list. LOL
    My parents didn't think it was important to have curtains for the windows for their IP o_O

    Oh in that case, do whatever makes you happy.

    I wouldn't be using them to dry clothes - I would use a clothes dryer for that. I would say a clotheshorse with a fan pointed at would do a better job than a heated towel rail.

    It is a pretty awesome feeling to put a nice warm towel around yourself after a shower especially in winter. Question is whether you can price on that. I couldn't, so i never got one :D (it was more the cost of somehow fitting a power point there that made it prohibitive).
     
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  9. Jamie Moore

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    Smart uber driver :)

    Personally - I wouldn't even bother for my own place. It's a luxury I could do without - and it's just another thing that will eventually need to be fixed/replaced. I'll just continue to throw my towel over the shower screen :)

    Cheers

    Jamie
     
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    You have a shower screen? I am so missing out.
    I don't have a shower screen... and to clean excess water I have a $2 squeegee that i replace once every 2 years. :D
     
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    I won a heated towel rail in a bet with my wife. I still haven't installed it. $0 value-add....... and some mystery person picks it up off the floor where I drop it. :)
     
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  12. neK

    neK Well-Known Member

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    That reminds of Kinne's Magic Coffee Table
     
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    Well I thought it was a mystery person but now I'm starting to think that I've got one of those magic washing baskets too.
     
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    I have a heated towel rail in one of the bathrooms. Great for drying damp towels - especially in winter.
     
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    We stayed in a few B&Bs in the UK which had heated towel tails, they were wonderful. No damp towels.
    Marg
     
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    We didn't go with heated towel rails, but we did put in underfloor heating when we renovated our bathroom. I looooooove having slightly warm tiles in winter.
     
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    I just flicked our one on for the first time.... but then it scared me so i turned it off :oops: don't want the house burning down!
    They do get warm. I'll take baby steps and get it a bit hotter tomorrow
     
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    Have put a heated towel rail on a timer in previous PPOR with a timer. Morning and evening it warmed the bathroom and dried the towels. New PPOR (1 of 3 townhouses we have just built) has ducted gas heating in the bathroom so hopefully that will suffice.

    PS my daughter thinks she has one of those coffee tables, which I refer to as her "floordrobe".
     
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    Not sure of quality but I was eyeing off some on crazysales.com.au that were substantially better priced than Bunnings for same look and watts etc. House I just bought has zero towel rails, but a large wall space in each bathrooms which looks like they probably had standing towel rails there. Some new in box ones showed up on gumtree too.
     
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    Do the towels have to be hung single layer to dry after a shower on the heated rails? Or can you have them folded in half and then hung over the rails?
    Only asking as I only have room for one thats about 650-700mm wide, and our towels are wider than this and would need to be folded in half lengthways before hanging on the rails. If they still dry like that then I might get one!
     
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