Runtal flat baseboard radiator

[SuperNaruto]

http://www.runtalnorthamerica.com/residential_radiators/index.html

Anyone have these for the home ? do you like it ? any problems ?

 

[ViRGE]

This is a joke, right? Baseboard heating is terrible; there's a reason why no one builds houses with it any more.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
This is a joke, right? Baseboard heating is terrible; there's a reason why no one builds houses with it any more.

Unfortunately not. Back home, for a number of years, all we had was baseboard heating. Sometimes the electric bill reached $500 per month in the winter.
We had a fireplace and wood stove, but they apparently screwed up when building our chimney. Something's wrong with its internal shape, and we get a negative draft. That diagnosis was only just reached about 6 months ago.
Air rushes down the chimney so hard that it can blow out a match. Lighting a fire in the stove will push the smoke out, but as soon as the door was opened to refuel, smoke billowed into the house. We tried all kinds of solutions - extending the chimney, cleaning it, special fittings, nothing helped. Then we finally got someone who really did know chimneys well - 6 months ago - and he looked in and saw right away that it was built incorrectly. Repairing it would have required tearing the chimney apart completely, which was not an option.

Prior to that, we bought wood pellet furnace, and installed it elsewhere in the basement. It uses a 3" pipe to vent its exhaust, so it didn't need the chimney at all. That's cut down considerably on our heating bills, and now the basement is actually usable in the winter.


Long story short: Sometimes baseboard may be the only option. It could also be useful as supplemental heat in certain rooms that don't receive any from a more central source.

 

[dartworth]

hot water/baseboard heating > forced air

any day...


OP, yes I have installed those units before. They are a nice product.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
This is a joke, right? Baseboard heating is terrible; there's a reason why no one builds houses with it any more.

Electric baseboard sucks. Hot water baseboard is the cadillac of heating. Builders went to forced air heat because, with the advent of central air, it became cheaper to install than hot water baseboard. Hot water heat only makes sense in a cold climate though where steady heat is needed.

 

[SuperNaruto]

Not a joke, unfortunately the existing hot water baseboard radiator is rusted in the house and these are the nicer looking ones i can find.. its just a replacement.. i can't afford to replace the whole heating unit in the home..