Bathroom Heating - Hydronic Systems

This is a favorite type of heating law for many good reasons. Less drafty and generally quieter than forced-air systems, hydronic baseboard heat also has less of a tendency to dry out the air, and it is assuredly divided into cut off thermostatically controlled zones. But there are a combine of problems with baseboard heating in the bathroom. The first is the question of wall space for the convectors. Regularly space is at a superior in a bathroom, and enough lengths of baseboard convectors have to compete with the fixtures for room on the walls. Sometimes you'll find runs of baseboard convectors extending behind the toilet, which in my general feel is a mistake. That is a pretty moist environment, with splash over and condensation from the toilet, and it doesn't take long for the steel housings on the baseboards to start to corrode and rust.

Also, many fin-tube convectors are-to be brutally honest-pretty clunky looking. In a larger room they aren't as obtrusive, but in a small bathroom they are very noticeable. An alternative is to use a thin-profile baseboard like Runtal's, which is only 2 in. Deep and which varies in height from 3 in. To 12 in. Off the floor, depending on the heat output of the unit. With a heat output of about 900 Btu/hour per running foot for the 12-in.-high 4-tube unit, this baseboard is well remarkable for the slight free wall space of a bathroom. Someone else solution is to use a wall-mounted panel radiator; some of them can duplicate as a towel warmer.

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If there is a vanity in the bathroom, Someone else option is to mount a covenant fan-coil convector underneath, in the toekick space. These units tie into the existing hydronic system; they have a small electrically driven fan, which circulates air around a heating coil before blowing it out into the room. They put out plenty of heat, typically have an adjustable blower, and the warm air they exude feels good on the feet without being so hot that it might burn them.

In my experience, these fans can be pretty noisy, and they also require a working water climatic characteristic of about 140 degrees F to put out enough heat, so they don't work very well with lower climatic characteristic systems (like heat pumps). Someone else question is their lack of a filtration system. The fans pull in air along the toe kick, generally a very dusty place, and it doesn't take long for the fins on the blower to get clogged up with dust, cutting into the carrying out of the blower. And I haven't been very impressed with their longevity; replacing or servicing a unit mounted underneath a cabinet is not fun, even with an way panel cut into the lowest of the cabinet.

Hydronic systems are also well remarkable to providing radiant heat, an increasingly favorite way to warm a home. Instead of being routed through convectors, radiant hydronic systems send heated water through flexible plastic pipes buried in the floors, walls, or ceilings, turning these surfaces into heating elements. Though more expensive than regular convection hydronic heat, radiant systems offer indiscernible mechanical presence, quiet operation, and even and predictable heat.

Bathroom Heating - Hydronic Systems

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