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A towel rail is judged on one thing: whether a towel is dry the next morning. That depends far more on air movement and spacing than on the rail itself, which is why a heated rail in an unventilated bathroom often disappoints and a plain ladder rail by a window frequently does not.
We are curating this range now. In the meantime the bathroom storage and accessories ranges cover the rest of the room, and the guidance below applies whichever rail you end up buying.
Towel Rails — coming soon
We’re curating this range now. In the meantime, here’s what we do have.
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Count the towels, then double the bar length. A folded bath towel needs about 30cm of bar, and a towel hung two layers deep dries at roughly half the speed — so a rail that looks adequate for four towels usually handles two.
Leave the rail off the wall. A towel pressed flat against plaster dries from one side only. Anything less than 4 to 5cm of clearance behind the bar is what makes towels smell musty rather than fresh.
Heated or not depends on ventilation, not on luxury. A heated rail in a room with an extractor fan and a window is excellent. In a sealed internal bathroom, the moisture has nowhere to go and the rail simply warms damp air.
For a small room, a ladder rail gives the most bar length per centimetre of wall. Where wall space is genuinely gone, a door-mounted or over-radiator rail is a better answer than squeezing a fixed rail somewhere awkward.