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- From: tip@lead.aichem.arizona.edu (Tom Perigrin)
- Newsgroups: misc.rural
- Subject: Re: Wood Heating
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.193800.13806@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 19:38:00 GMT
- References: <1992Dec19.002153.24672@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <BzMuzv.JJA@srgenprp.sr.hp.com> <92Dec21.193843edt.1171@smoke.cs.toronto.edu>
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- In article <92Dec21.193843edt.1171@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> enenkel@cs.toronto.edu (Robert Frederick Enenkel) writes:
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- >And you can use baseboard heaters instead of cast-iron radiators if you want.
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- Friend of mine just ripped the baseboard hot water system out of her house,
- and is installing forced air. I haven't talked much about "why", except
- she has said;
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- 1) The water pipes were persnikity... accidentally left the house with the
- heat off in November, and a surprise deep freeze (New Mexico) broke a lot
- of piping.
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- 2) Got a leak in a pipe (remnent of the freeze?) Had to rip out a lot of
- wall, etc.., to repair. Unfortunately, I was visiting that New Years, and I
- got to do a lot of helping, if I wanted to share any heat.
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- 3) The baseboards got in the way of EVERYTHING! You can't put bookshelves,
- dressers, chests of drawers, etc..., against the walls with baseboard heaters.
- In New Mexico you need a lot of linear feet of baseboard heater, so they had
- trouble finding places to put their furniture in a 3000 sq ft house!!!!
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- 4) Baseboards play hell if you put antique furniture anywhere near them,
- because they cause uneven heating and drying, with consequent splitting,
- warping, etc... Made it even harder to place their furniture!
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