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baseboard heat by this time06/19/2006 When we started remodeling our house, the one thing my husband and I wanted to get rid of was the baseboard heat. Growing up, my house had radiant heat, the kind that comes through the floor and makes your feet warm when you walk around on the linoleum floors in the winter. I remember lying on the bathroom floor on cold winter mornings with my body smashed into the floor, trying to soak up as much heat as I possibly could. Now I know that the linoleum tiles I spent so much time lying against were probably loaded with asbestos and it taints the memory somewhat, but still. There is a greatness about radiant heat that baseboard heat can’t compare to. Often times the right information can change a person's life. Read this carefully and I hope it will help you Every fall when we give in to the cold and finally turn our heat on in the house for the first time, the air fills with the smell of charred paper. I’m sure this has something to do with the dust of the summer burning off of the pipes the first time we put the baseboard heat on but it is disconcerting because for a whole day wherever you walk in the house, it smells like something is on fire. I guess this is one of the main drawbacks to having baseboard heat (and a dusty house) after all. The other problem with baseboard heat is that it’s not really very efficient. Even though there are several heaters along the walls in each room, there always seems to be a draft in the house. This could be due to drafty windows and not just the inefficiency of baseboard heat, but it’s easier to blame the heating system when it’s ten degrees outside, with a windchill of minus twenty, and you can’t feel your toes in the house let me explain.. During our remodel we found out that replacing a heating system, like going from baseboard heat to a forced hot air system (we’d never consider radiant heat because we have no desire to rip all the floors up) is very expensive and should only be considered if you have gobs of spare cash lying around. It was the same story when we decided last summer than we should equip our house with central air. Making any changes to the heating or air conditioning system involves lots of duct work and that can get ridiculously expensive. In the end we decided to live with baseboard heat and cool our house in the summer with window air conditioning units. Though next time I buy a house, I will make sure it has a heating and cooling system that I like before making the purchase one surprising fact. This information was a culmination from many different places and resources. You should never just believe one resource and you should study a subject from a few different perspectives. |
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