Radiator hot water to baseboard in two rooms only (how much, house)

[bobc623]

I have a hot water radiator system and I want to put baseboard in two rooms to gain more room. I would like to know if this is possible and what should something like that cost approx.

[sabbat hunter]

If your system can handle the additional rooms, then it can be done. The cost would depend on the size of the room, amount of pipe to be ran.

[ovi8]

I had a handyman doing bathrooms here (reasonable cost) and asked how much it was to re-do a room on 2 walls and he quoted me $2k. It was $6k to do everything we really wanted (that room plus the living room extension). The pipes are already coming into the rooms. It's no joke doing baseboard from scratch.

[Mr.Malakalot]

DO you have steam radiators? if so its a different system than hot water. I've never heard of hot water radiators.

if its a hot eater system its no big deal swapping out the radiator for baseboard.

[ovi8]

^ since the OP already said hot water I'm assuming you're responding to me. It's hot water too. It runs through the copper/pex pipes running along the fins inside the baseboard.

[twingles]

We had hot water radiators in my house growing up. Built in 1933. Best heat ever.

[deeken]

I have steam heat and I noticed that the radiators for hot water heat are almost identical. Is there a big difference between steam heat and hot water heat? Does one feel different from the other? I do love the warmth steam gives out but it does get the bedroom dry at night and I constantly wake up with a dry, stuffy nose.

[daisyLI]

Originally Posted by twingles

We had hot water radiators in my house growing up. Built in 1933. Best heat ever.

I agree. We have them in our house now.

[twingles]

Originally Posted by deeken

I have steam heat and I noticed that the radiators for hot water heat are almost identical. Is there a big difference between steam heat and hot water heat? Does one feel different from the other? I do love the warmth steam gives out but it does get the bedroom dry at night and I constantly wake up with a dry, stuffy nose.

They look exactly alike. The ones we had in my house growing up were much bigger than the ones in the house I used to live in (steam radiators) but that might have had to do more with room size than anything else.

i preferred the hot water to the steam - steam is drying; steam dissipates faster so it gets colder faster (hot water radiators stay hot for a good long while) and a steam boiler has to always have water in it or it will shut down.