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- From: Charles.K.Scott@dartmouth.edu (Charles K. Scott)
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- Subject: Re: Wood Heating
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.154843.6096@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 15:48:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.193800.13806@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- tip@lead.aichem.arizona.edu (Tom Perigrin) writes:
-
- > 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!
-
- I doubt that the baseboard heaters are the culprit. Heat, no matter
- what the source, be it radiant floor, baseboard, forced hot air ceiling
- or whatever the source will dry things out eventually. We live in a
- log house with hot water circulating in plastic pipes just under the
- wood floor. It isn't an aggressive heating system like forced hot air
- but it still dries things out just like our wood furnace used to. I
- can't notice any difference. The only way to keep furniture from
- splitting in a winter climate like New England is to have some sort of
- automatic humidifier that is capable of maintaining an even humidity.
- We tried it one winter with a clumsy beast that had a cloth wrapped
- wheel slowly spinning in a tray of water and a fan to blow it out. It
- was undependable, noisy and kept us up nights, not to mention the
- electrical usage. We never tried anything else although there are
- "sonic" humidifiers I've seen now that may do a better job.
-
- Corky Scott
-