Baseboard/Hot Water Heating

[dramamama6685]

Wow thanks for all this info.. I will be so uber prepared when we move!

[Submariner]

We have owned a few homes that used baseboard heat. I have also installed such a system once.

Right now we have Radiant floors, which is considered even more efficient. If you bought a home that had baseboards, you could always re-fit it with heated floors.

[Maineah]

The office where my wife works has radiant floor heat.Perhaps it was installed poorly or maybe Italian marble is a poor conductor of heat. What ever the reason she says it does not work well and keeps an electric heater under her desk going all winter as does about 75% of the people working there. The company has tried in vain to get the heat problem solved and has kind of given up on it. She calls the place "the dungeon".

[Submariner]

Radiant flooring is different.

If it is working right. You can set the temp a tad lower and still be comfortable.

It is taking us a bit to get acustomed to it.

We have been used to hot air blowing somewhere, or warm spots of the house [like over the baseboards].

Radiant heated floors provide a very even distributed temperature.

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by Maineah

The office where my wife works has radiant floor heat.Perhaps it was installed poorly or maybe Italian marble is a poor conductor of heat. What ever the reason she says it does not work well and keeps an electric heater under her desk going all winter as does about 75% of the people working there. The company has tried in vain to get the heat problem solved and has kind of given up on it. She calls the place "the dungeon".

Ask her if the floor is warm?

The floor should feel warm to bare feet.

It should be like: if the floor is 75 degrees and your feet are warm, then even though a wall mounted thermometer may say 65, you don't feel chilly.

If her office floor is cold, their system is broken.

[BacktoNE]

We had radiant floor heat in the apartment we rented when we first got out here. Absolutely LOVED it! There is nothing as wonderful as warm bathroom floors in January

[RANGER.101ST]

i have radiant in the shop. its realy nice when your changing the oil and its 15deg out side . i wlsh the house had it.

[Maineah]

Originally Posted by forest beekeeper

Ask her if the floor is warm?

The floor should feel warm to bare feet.

It should be like: if the floor is 75 degrees and your feet are warm, then even though a wall mounted thermometer may say 65, you don't feel chilly.

If her office floor is cold, their system is broken.

She said that even though the floor is warm the room itself doesn't feel warm. The rooms have high ceilings and I'll bet they get some kind of a convection current moving the colder air downward which makes it feel cooler at the lower levels of the room. Just a theory.