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Your heated towel rack may just be hot-water plumbing

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That luxurious metal ladder warming your bath towel isn't a complex electrical appliance. It is simply a clever extension of the building's central hot water heating system, radiating the heat from the boiler directly into your damp fabric.

Your heated towel rack may just be hot-water plumbing
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