Removing heated towel rail - heating question

[KenJ]

Hi all,

We’re having our upstairs cloakroom refurbished and the (plumbed in) heated towel rail will be removed during the work. It’ll then be re-fitted and bled as one of the last jobs.

Question - will the central heating be useable whilst the towel rail is disconnected? I think the fitter is going to cap the valves so I assume the system will be ok to use.

For information our heating system is pressurised closed loop.

Cheers

[B17NNS]

Yes, heating should work perfectly normally.

One way to test is to turn off both valves on the towel rail (you've effectively removed that rad)

[DocJock]

If there's a trv attached, don't forget to put on a temporary stop end.

[Geffg]

DocJock said:

If there's a trv attached, don't forget to put on a temporary stop end.

Yeah I second that!!
Found that out when I took a rad out to replace it but the new one was a bit smaller so couldn’t fit it. Whilst waiting for my mate to alter the pipe work etc we had a cold day and I came home to nice little leak!

[KenJ]

Thanks for the replies, looks like it’ll be fine. Just wanted to make sure as we’re due a cold week coming!
By the way - what’s a temporary stop end? Is it just capping off that end?

Thanks.

[DocJock]

Yep, just screws on.

[KenJ]

Thanks all for the advice.

[Sheepshanks]

DocJock said:

If there's a trv attached, don't forget to put on a temporary stop end.

A decorators cap can be screwed on in place of the TRV head.