Adding a heated towel bar is one that can turn your everyday shower into a luxurious experience. Our 8-Bar Towel Warmer is your best option, on account of its reasonable price tag, modern design, and undeniably sleek appearance. Once installed, you can just plug in to outlet and enjoy toasty textiles in as little as 3-5 minutes. In addition to heating your bath sheets, our Warmer prevents fabrics from developing that dreaded musty smell and ultimately reduces how often you have to wash your bath linens. You can also use it to dry bathing suits, blankets, outerwear, socks, etc.
- Mounting / Installation Type: Wall mounted
- Material: Stainless steel
- Number of Bars: 8
- Overall: 31.5'' H x 19.5'' W x 4.3'' D
- Overall Product Weight: 9.5lb.
Nice heater that works.
However, the hardwired installation is hideous:
1. The heater is supplied with the cord, so for the hardwired installation, you will have to cut it.
2. There is a mounting tunnel on each corner of the heater and you will need to guide the wire through the bottom right one. There are a few problems with it.
First one is that the tunnel is short, so you'll have to significantly cut the cord and leave only about 10 cm to properly fit the cable into the tunnel.
The second issue is that the tunnel is very narrow, so you won't be able to use wire caps to connect the cable from the wall with the heater cord. Both cables have 3 wires, so fitting 3 caps is impossible. You'll need to use push connectors.
Here comes the third issue: the manufacturer used stranded wires for the cord, meaning that pushing these wires into push connectors is very tough - they don't engage, they break and remember - you cut the cord already, so you won't have a lot of spare room.
3. There is a mounting bracket that you will need to screw to the wall and the wall wire will go through the bracket into the heater tunnel. The mounting bracket has 3 holes: 1 for the cable and 2 for the screws. The issue here is that you'll have to use at least 14 gauge wire that can work on 15 amp circuit. The wire is pretty thick, so the hole in the wall is quite large, so that the wire can go through. The mounting bracket, on the other hand, is very small and the holes for the screws are located close to the cable hole. When you put drywall anchors to attach the bracket, you'll realize that they are so close to the wire hole that the drywall can actually break and the bracket won't hold.
4. (This only applies if the space between your studs has insulation). If the space between the studs where your wire goes is hollow, you can skip it, but in my case, I have a sounds proofing insulation inside the wall. That makes pushing the wire into the wall next to impossible.
If that is your case, you'll need to keep your wiring in that small narrow tunnel, which means that you'll need to keep all your connections there and you'll need put the tunnel, the bracket and the decorative plate loose, then connect the wires together while holding the heater somehow, then you'll need to center the plate and the tunnel and screw them together and then you'll need to put this corner on a mounting plate.
There are so many ways that would me the installation easier but the heater is poorly engineered for the installation and future service.
Once you successfully get through all of this, you can enjoy the warm towel rack that seems to be working fine.. Kirill. Gatineau, QC. 2024-01-29 17:46:15