Baseboard Heat along interior walls?

Plumdog_2

"Helen Waite" and move on to something better. There is no rule that requires baseboard to be mounted anywhere.

Absolute

copper fin baseboard along interior walls?

We recently installed 12 feet of copper baseboard along the inside walls of a room for a customer. The reason we installed along the inside wall was that there would be an extreme amount of exposed piping at ceiling level to reach the outside walls, due to the 100% cinder block home construction - walls ceilings ...everything. This was the customers decision, since he did not want exposed piping running across his living room ceiling.

NOW he has decided that he cannot find a place to put his entertainment center and wants us (at my own expense) to do the job over. I have a signed contract outlining what we were agreeing to do. The customer is threatening to go to court to get me to redo the work. He is telling me that he will say in court that baseboard cannot work on an inside wall. In my years of doing heating for a living, I have on several occasions installed baseboard on an outside wall when space restrictions limited us.

Does anyone have an opinion on whether or not baseboard will not work on the outside wall? I have told the customer that I would like to put temperature loggers in the home for one week to prove my point, but he will not allow it.

By the way, I did do a full load calc.

J.C.A._3

Signed contract....

If the contract is detailed enough, I would'nt even consider hiring a lawyer unless you'd like to play his game....and make him pay for it.

Just keep in mind something that is pounded into my head DAILY....."Common sense ain't so common"...and work from there.

Sounds like there may have been a plan in place before this job started, doesn't it? Best of luck. Chris

lchmb

I have

I have baseboard on an inside wall in my own home. It was done due to space restriction's and you couldn't tell a difference. If your contract state's where you will put the baseboard, I wouldn't change it. Well, I might but at his expense...:)

Mellow_2

\"this is america

you can do anything" ..........I have a church school that was told (by a knuklehead) that the bb in the church schools basement was made for houses not church schools and that is why it would never work. It was a piping problem and was easy to fix. The science says it will work than it will work. The bb will heat the air and that will heat the room sssssssooooo be happy that you will not be working for that cust. anymore. Thank you Dan for the quote.

Ken D.

Baseboard

It will work on an inside wall. According to Hoyle, radiation should be on an outside wall, especially under a window to heat the infiltrated air. It will work better there. I, however have installed baseboard on an inside wall many times, usually because the outside wall was not accessible due to cabinetry, etc., or if the floor had to be dug up or the piping would not easily lend itself due to the design of the house. The location would usually be requested or otherwise approved by the customer. I would have them sign off on it.

jeff_51

download this and show it to the cust

these guys are all pro's and I like them have installed hot water baseboard on inside walls. Usually because of lack of acces, and sometimes simply because there was not room for enough baseboard on the exterior wall. In fact I am just finishing a job where the baseboard in the laundry room is on an interior wall. Dannex, which is a low temp radiant baseboard requires baseboard on both exterior and interior to get enough heat in a room. As you may have noticed, all the old gravity hot air systems had the heat registers on the interior walls and the returns on the exterior walls because that was how the natural convection worked best.You are the expert, not him. If he wants to take you to court let him. He will have to get an expert to show you are wrong, and if the paper work shows he wanted it on the interior walls, that is pretty much the ball game. I always try to cover my rear in a situation like that by putting in writing that that is not what we rcommend. I don't think he will get a lawyer to represent him. He may try small claims and with downloads from this site or another pro, I don't think you have much to worry about. The question is, has he paid you yet????? It may be tough to get your money out of him if he hasn't

Weezbo

he may say anything he wants...

the idea that baseboard wont work on inside walls he may propound most eloquent ,yet, who made him the AHJ on the laws of Physics? Get real. Heat goes to cold. if he can suspend these laws let me know .I ,personally ,always wanted to be able to etherealize through walls.