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Chris K

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Feb 13, 2011, 8:24:27 AM2/13/11
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On 13/02/2011 12:42, Chris Hogg wrote:
> Looking for a heated towel-rail/radiator for new shower room, and I
> find some are chrome and some are 'chrome effect' (and cheaper). How
> do they differ, or put another way, what is 'chrome effect', and which
> is to be preferred?
>

IME Chrome seems as durable as Chrome ever is, and 'Chrome Effect' peels
off after a bit. It looks like a metallised plastic layer on top of a
steel base, and peels off possibly due to damp penetration or poor
preparation.

Avoid

Chris K

Andy Dingley

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Feb 13, 2011, 8:25:10 AM2/13/11
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On Feb 13, 12:42 pm, Chris Hogg <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> find some are chrome and some are 'chrome effect' (and cheaper).

"Chrome effect" usually means aluminised plastic, not metal (plating
or base) at all.

These days though, it could be machined out of solid Stellite and the
label is just a bad translation.

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The Natural Philosopher

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Feb 13, 2011, 8:38:37 AM2/13/11
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Chris Hogg wrote:
> Thank you both. Something along the lines of 'metallised plastic' was
> what I feared. Proper chrome it'll be!
>
Polished titanium..oh bugger. That's about he worst conductivity of any
metal there is....

John Rumm

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Feb 13, 2011, 8:46:06 AM2/13/11
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On 13/02/2011 12:42, Chris Hogg wrote:
> Looking for a heated towel-rail/radiator for new shower room, and I
> find some are chrome and some are 'chrome effect' (and cheaper). How
> do they differ, or put another way, what is 'chrome effect', and which
> is to be preferred?

Chrome over chrome effect.

Note that polished stainless is another option...

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The Medway Handyman

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Feb 13, 2011, 8:50:34 AM2/13/11
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On 13/02/2011 12:42, Chris Hogg wrote:
> Looking for a heated towel-rail/radiator for new shower room, and I
> find some are chrome and some are 'chrome effect' (and cheaper). How
> do they differ, or put another way, what is 'chrome effect', and which
> is to be preferred?
>

I'd guess that 'chrome effect' is a bit like 'chocolate flavoured'

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Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

Nightjar

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Feb 13, 2011, 10:57:03 AM2/13/11
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On 13/02/2011 13:50, The Medway Handyman wrote:
> On 13/02/2011 12:42, Chris Hogg wrote:
>> Looking for a heated towel-rail/radiator for new shower room, and I
>> find some are chrome and some are 'chrome effect' (and cheaper). How
>> do they differ, or put another way, what is 'chrome effect', and which
>> is to be preferred?
>>
>
> I'd guess that 'chrome effect' is a bit like 'chocolate flavoured'
>

ITYM chocolate flavour. Flavoured means there has to be chocolate in the
product. Flavour simply means that most people think that is what it
tastes like.

Colin Bignell

Andy Champ

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Feb 13, 2011, 4:44:23 PM2/13/11
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On 13/02/2011 15:57, Nightjar <"cpb"@ insertmysurnamehere> wrote:
>
> ITYM chocolate flavour. Flavoured means there has to be chocolate in the
> product. Flavour simply means that most people think that is what it
> tastes like.
>

Most? Remember the row about "hedgehog flavour crisps"?

Andy

Skipweasel

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Feb 13, 2011, 5:07:14 PM2/13/11
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In article <6b-dncH_68cqzcXQ...@eclipse.net.uk>,
no....@nospam.invalid says...

> Most? Remember the row about "hedgehog flavour crisps"?

Cor - that's twice someone's mentioned them today.

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Nightjar

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Feb 14, 2011, 3:52:30 AM2/14/11
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On 13/02/2011 21:44, Andy Champ wrote:
> On 13/02/2011 15:57, Nightjar <"cpb"@ insertmysurnamehere> wrote:
>>
>> ITYM chocolate flavour. Flavoured means there has to be chocolate in the
>> product. Flavour simply means that most people think that is what it
>> tastes like.
>>
>
> Most?

Most as in I often have trouble recognising the flavour claimed but
other people can taste it.

> Remember the row about "hedgehog flavour crisps"?

Or hedgehog flavoured crisps as they were first described.

Colin Bignell

Triffid

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Feb 14, 2011, 5:34:50 AM2/14/11
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My son and I both have identical 'ladder' towel radiators in our respective
bathrooms (same manufacturer). Mine is chrome - his is painted white.

You can feel the radiated heat from the painted radiator from a foot away.
There is virtually no radiated heat from my chrome radiator - although the
convected heat seems to keep the bathroom warm enough.

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Triff

Terry Casey

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Feb 15, 2011, 6:07:15 AM2/15/11
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In message <4d590585$0$28644$882e...@usenet-news.net> on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:34:50 -0000

Triffid <nos...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> My son and I both have identical 'ladder' towel radiators in our respective
> bathrooms (same manufacturer). Mine is chrome - his is painted white.
>
> You can feel the radiated heat from the painted radiator from a foot away.
> There is virtually no radiated heat from my chrome radiator - although the
> convected heat seems to keep the bathroom warm enough.

Simple physics ...

The chrome will relect the maximum amount of heat back into the radiator.

Matt black radiates the most heat energy.

At shool we did an experiment with a biscuit tin full of water, over a bunsen burner.
Opposite sides of the tin were painted white and black and thermometers were fixed at
equal height and distance from the white and black surfaces.

I can't remember the difference in temperature rise but it was substantial.

Off course, when I went to school, radiators were always matt black!

In your case, the white rad is closer to black than chrome ...

Paint his black and you'll really notice the difference!

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Terry

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Jim K

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Feb 15, 2011, 7:15:37 AM2/15/11
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On Feb 15, 11:07 am, Terry Casey <kt...@example.invalid> wrote:
> In message <4d590585$0$28644$882e7...@usenet-news.net> on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:34:50 -0000

> Triffid <nos...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>
> > My son and I both have identical 'ladder' towel radiators in our respective
> > bathrooms (same manufacturer). Mine is chrome - his is painted white.
>
> > You can feel the radiated heat from the painted radiator from a foot away.
> > There is virtually no radiated heat from my chrome radiator - although the
> > convected heat seems to keep the bathroom warm enough.
>
> Simple physics ...
>
> The chrome will relect the maximum amount of heat back into the radiator.
>
> Matt black radiates the most heat energy.
>
> At shool we did an experiment with a biscuit tin full of water, over a bunsen burner.
> Opposite sides of the tin were painted white and black and thermometers were fixed at
> equal height and distance from the white and black surfaces.
>
> I can't remember the difference in temperature rise but it was substantial.
>

indeed eyons (sp) ago I made a solar/heat powered gizmo at school -
kind of like a waterwheel that rotated as the heat emitted from the
black painted sides of the paddles pushed it round (the other side of
the paddles covered in foil).

Jim K

Halmyre

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Feb 15, 2011, 9:13:04 AM2/15/11
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I remember biscuit manufacturers going on about biscuits with a
"chocolately coating" many years ago when they were using choc-
substitute instead of real chocolate. Thankfully, most of them
realised the error of their ways and reverted to the real thing - cue
a rash of "coated in real milk chocolate" adverts...

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Halmyre

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