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overall a good product. keeps towels warm and dry. use a timer so it comes on few hours a day prior to and after my shower.
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As a towel warmer and a towel dryer, this product only deserves two stars. The only part of the towel that gets heated is the contact point where it directly hangs. The parts that drape down don't get heated at all, despite the middle bars. The bars themselves do get hot to the touch, but apparently it doesn't transfer to the towel well. I've tried layering and even that doesn't work well. Besides, who wants to go through the hassle of stacking a big bundle of towels on top and then taking them all off just to get to the first layer? The best way I've been able to make use of this is wrap roll the towel around the top bar. That's been semi-satisfactory. But even with this technique, I get a towel with a warm center and a decrease in warmth to the ends. It takes about a half hour to warm the outer frame of the rail to it's maximum and about a full hour for the middle sections to heat up. So about an hour is how long I would leave the towel on the warmer in the "wrap roll" configuration. Leaving it on longer doesn't really help much. How any company could pass this thing off as a serious towel warmer is beyond me.As a towel dryer, you'd get quicker results putting your damp towel in a laundry dryer. And since the only part that gets heated is the contact point and not what drapes down, it takes hours to dry; a full day maybe. You'd probably get better results sun-drying!
EDIT: 12/6/11
I finally got tired of this crappy item and went and got a Brookstone Towel Warmer (the tall one) instead. What a difference! Brookstone's warmer works wonders. It was quicker and toastier! Sure, there's that heated plasticy smell every review seems to complain about but I don't mind and am sure will fade. At least my towel actually gets hot.
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Was so excited to give my wife a towel warmer for Christmas as she is always cold coming out of our shower and she loved the one I had in my flat in the UK. Thought this one was a good buy as it could both be a standing unit or a wall-mounted (so that we could have a trial period before banging up my walls). At first, there was a strong smell, but that did dissipate quickly. Unfortunately, we have still yet to actually have a warm towel from using this product. We have tried many different configurations of towel shape, size, fold, weight. No matter what we do, the towel seems to gain little heat, which is disappointing as my towels in the UK were downright hot from a similar looking device. It could be that the crossbars are notably narrower than the frame bar resulting in the towel never actually contacting the crossbars not sure. Unfortunately this one will become a showpiece in our basement.Honest reviews on Jerdon RTC Warmrails Mid Size Wall Mounted or Floor Standing Towel
I purchased this model since it had the smallest overall footprint and for the dual option of having it be free-standing or wall-mounted. We've been using it free-standing for the past few weeks and are pretty happy with it. Having dry, warm towels in the morning is great! We hang our two showel towels on it, using the lower bars and then put a third towel on the top bar to cover the other two and keep the heat in. The towels aren't uniformly warm, but definitely drier than our older method (hanging them on a hook). The satin nickel finish works nicely in our bathroom (no shiny chrome).In free-standing mode, the rack moves slightly front-to-back. It's in no danger of tipping over or anything but it was disconcerting at first since I thought I hadn't installed the feet correctly or tight enough. This movement does make it easier to tilt the rack forward slightly away from the wall when hanging towels on it. And be careful: the metal gets pretty hot to the touch.
I had one small problem occur just last week: one of the plastic hold covers on the side (where the horizontal rails connect to the vertical ones) just popped out. I found it on the floor under the rack and it wouldn't snap back into place. It was almost as if the heat of the rack warped it slightly. I've sent an e-mail to customer support to see if I can get a replacement part sent to me.
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