Hi all!
I just moved to my first ever own studio flat.
I am not form Europe and back home we don't need heating. So I am very clueless about this.

The flat has floor heating but in the bathroom for the towels there is this thing and I am not sure how does it work since it has two wheels with numbers and it was disconnected when I arrived. There is also a display in the bathroom for the heating. So I'm confused.

Could someone please explain me what is it, how does it work, the differences between the white and steel wheel?

Thanks in advance!

by Dalthorious

4 comments

  1. so typically the hot water for the heating is only available during certain months of the year, and during those months you’d use that dial. then for the summer months you still want to dry stuff or have warm towels, you can plug in the electric heating element and use that dial instead

  2. I haven’t seen this variant, the easiest way would be just to ask your neighbours, who probably have the same type.

    The rack is a combination for heating and drying of towels. The left metallic wheel probably controls temperature when warm water for heating is available, i.e. central heating is turned on. Judging from the plug of the right one, it looks like you can optionally heat this rack with electricity in summer (after plugging it in).

    Potentially your bathroom also has floor heating, and the display adjusts for that.

    Another way to find out would be to just try those out, and see which parts get warm.

  3. As additional explanation: Theoretically it could be that that the temperature of the water in the pipes is not enough if you want a quite high temperature in your bathroom (e.g. you want 25 or 26°). Then you could use the electrical auxiliary heating to get this temperature. So just try it out, although I wouldn’t recommend using this electrical heating that much (it’s quite inefficient use of energy ;).

  4. Floor heating has a very low tmpersture of the heating water in the pipes. Somewhere below 40 degrees at freezing outside temperatures.
    Those temperatures are way to low to heat that radiator. So it gets pre heated by the water and got electric heating in addition to reach a warm enough state.

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