Single loop baseboard - common return path

Uni R_4

http://www.slantfin.com/documents/103.pdf -- page 15

The fins go on the bottom.

bsitsis

Single loop baseboard - common return path question

We had a plumber install hw baseboard in a bonus room over our garage. It is a single loop, on it's own circulator. Due to the configuration of the room, and pre-existing construction, it is a single loop with the physical return path being the same as the supply path. He installed the loop such that within each radiator enclosure, the hot water from the furnace is going through the pipes WITHOUT the fins, and the return is going through the pipes WITH the fins. The pipe WITHOUT the fins is physically on top of the pipe WITH the fins. We questioned him on this and he said that is how it should be. It does not make any sense to us - can someone please comment on how this loop should be configured - should the return be on the top or bottom within the radiator enclosure, and should the hot water from the furnace be going through the pipe with the fins, or without the fins? Thanks in advance for any insight.

Unknown

it won't work

It won't work if you have a furance... Will works if you have a BOILER.....

bob_50

It should

work fine either way.

Norm Harvey

In my opinion it is 6 to one, half a dozen to another,.. Any heat loss from the pipe going above the fins will still get out of the baseboard enclosure in the form of a convective current.

It's fine.



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brucewo1b

Yes it will work either way

annd I have done it this way sometimes just to get the hottest water to the futherest point first.

John@Reliable_13

Yes it will work either way , heat is heat