Baseboard Heaters, Windows, and Curtains
#1
12-05-07, 06:53 AM
Baseboard Heaters, Windows, and Curtains
I read in a recent diy-type magazine that baseboard heaters and radiators are installed under windows or on outside walls to create an upward flow across the cold window surface or wall. Great. I always wondered why heaters were always installed on an outside wall.
Then won't installing heavy curtains or drapes whose bottoms are just above the heater's top surface block the convection when closed and by so doing, drastically reduce the heating efficiency of the heaters?
If so, how does one deal with wives who insist on covering windows with draw curtains? Wouldn't putting blinds inside the window area and just having curtains that don't close to decorate the top and sides of the window be more efficient?
Then won't installing heavy curtains or drapes whose bottoms are just above the heater's top surface block the convection when closed and by so doing, drastically reduce the heating efficiency of the heaters?
If so, how does one deal with wives who insist on covering windows with draw curtains? Wouldn't putting blinds inside the window area and just having curtains that don't close to decorate the top and sides of the window be more efficient?
#2
12-05-07, 04:04 PM
Originally Posted by Pipsisiwah
If so, how does one deal with wives ...
Originally Posted by Pipsisiwah
...who insist on covering windows with draw curtains? Wouldn't putting blinds inside the window area and just having curtains that don't close to decorate the top and sides of the window be more efficient?
If you can keep the drapes a few inches above, and somehow against the wall so the heat doesn't flow behind them, they will help, rather than harm.
This question is marginally on-topic ... I don't think there's a 100% on-topic forum for this though ? I guess it fits best here because you are talking about hydronic baseboards!
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12-05-07, 09:42 PM
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MMMMMMMM I wonder if it was HOT air under Maralyn Monroe's dress, or was it just a breeze of cold air. 
I always thought that baseboards were located under windows to counteract the cold from the windows. I wonder why windows are located on OUTSIDE walls!
?&$%@$ hehehehehe
I always thought that baseboards were located under windows to counteract the cold from the windows. I wonder why windows are located on OUTSIDE walls!
?&$%@$ hehehehehe
#4
12-06-07, 08:18 AM
Originally Posted by boilersrus
I wonder why windows are located on OUTSIDE walls! :
Dummy, otherwise the peeping toms won't be able to see in!
#5
12-06-07, 08:36 AM
The convection loop, draws air from along the floor and then it passes into the baseboard convection covers and then comes out the top louvres "towards" the inside of the room. It makes a big squarish looking circle if you look at a side profile of it. The drapes shouldn't be in the path and your SWMBO is right again but then again she married ya, right?
This diagram aint quite right, but it's close...
This diagram aint quite right, but it's close...
#6
12-06-07, 10:54 AM
SWMBO? SWMBO!!???
What's that - something like the "War Dept."?? Please enlighten me.
I could use a good, colloquial German translation for 'better half', "War Dept." "little lady", etc. that reflects what a man married for 40 years (to the same woman, that is) might use when mentioning her at the local Kneipe (and "Schoenste", "Liebste" won't cut it). Ideas?
Sorry 'bout the OT.
What's that - something like the "War Dept."?? Please enlighten me.
I could use a good, colloquial German translation for 'better half', "War Dept." "little lady", etc. that reflects what a man married for 40 years (to the same woman, that is) might use when mentioning her at the local Kneipe (and "Schoenste", "Liebste" won't cut it). Ideas?
Sorry 'bout the OT.
#7
12-06-07, 04:11 PM
SWMBO = She Who Must Be Obeyed ...
Yeah, OT, but needed a definition.
Back on topic:
If SOME heated air does happen to get behind the curtain, chances are it will find it's way out the top too. And as who's diagram shows, it's all about convection... but closing the drapes is ALWAYS going to decrease the heat loss in a room.
Yeah, OT, but needed a definition.
Back on topic:
If SOME heated air does happen to get behind the curtain, chances are it will find it's way out the top too. And as who's diagram shows, it's all about convection... but closing the drapes is ALWAYS going to decrease the heat loss in a room.
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12-06-07, 05:52 PM
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Originally Posted by NJ Trooper
SWMBO = She Who Must Be Obeyed ...
Yeah, OT, but needed a definition.
Back on topic:
If SOME heated air does happen to get behind the curtain, chances are it will find it's way out the top too. And as who's diagram shows, it's all about convection... but closing the drapes is ALWAYS going to decrease the heat loss in a room.
Yeah, OT, but needed a definition.
Back on topic:
If SOME heated air does happen to get behind the curtain, chances are it will find it's way out the top too. And as who's diagram shows, it's all about convection... but closing the drapes is ALWAYS going to decrease the heat loss in a room.
Pete
#10
12-07-07, 07:09 PM
Amazing what googling can do.
I suppose the counterpart to SWMBO is GOGPAP, Giver of Great Pleasure, and Pain.
If you can recall when and where that originated, you'll be doing good
I suppose the counterpart to SWMBO is GOGPAP, Giver of Great Pleasure, and Pain.
If you can recall when and where that originated, you'll be doing good
