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Radiant...the best all around comfort, when installed correctly. You would have no more problems then you would have with hot water baseboard. Nothing beats walking around barefoot with radiant heating!
Not sure if the pipes were installed correctly because all you hear all night long is banging, creaks....so much noise coming from them.
Once my dad was staying over from Virginia and he thought someone was banging on the front door. Went to open it and he stood their scratching his head when he didn't see anyone standing there.
I think if I had a chance to do it all over again, I would pick either radiant or forced air. I enjoy the thought of warm toasty feet.
Banging from a hot water heating system with baseboard? Hmmm. Your 100% its not steam, right? When does it bang? When the boiler fires? When the pumps cycle?
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Originally Posted by HappySpring
I have baseboard. House was built in 2004.
Not sure if the pipes were installed correctly because all you hear all night long is banging, creaks....so much noise coming from them.
Once my dad was staying over from Virginia and he thought someone was banging on the front door. Went to open it and he stood their scratching his head when he didn't see anyone standing there.
I think if I had a chance to do it all over again, I would pick either radiant or forced air. I enjoy the thought of warm toasty feet.
Banging from a hot water heating system with baseboard? Hmmm. Your 100% its not steam, right? When does it bang? When the boiler fires? When the pumps cycle?
You hear the banging in the walls. When water is running thru the baseboard, you get a clinking sound. After a while that goes away. When it shuts down after reaching the desired temp, you get the banging. It's a loud one at that. We had the builder & plumber come back and from what I learned over the years it is because they didn't put insulation behind the pipes and when the pipe expands and contracts it's hitting the Sheetrock.
HappySpring the only way that the expansion from a 3/4" or 1" pipe is causing this noise is if the piping run is over 100 feet. Dont buy into it. If this was the cause your pipes would be leaking all over b/c the soldered or coupled joints would not hold.
Without really knowing the system its hard to find the problem. Is the noise in 1 central location? All over the house? On both floors?
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