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Bob_115
Bob_115 Member Posts: 39
in THE MAIN WALL
Years ago I attended Guardian angel church in Brooklyn .As i recall the chuch used a group of 3 inch pipes on the walls to serve as radiators. Is it possible to use black iron pipes as a baseboard heat source?

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  • Big Ed_4
    Big Ed_4 Member Posts: 2,785
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    Stand Pipes

    Yes you can ..if you like the look ,why not ....

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  • jim_72
    jim_72 Member Posts: 77
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    copper

    If you want to spend the $$$ you can have  Copper also.
  • Jean-David Beyer
    Jean-David Beyer Member Posts: 2,666
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    Convection or radiation?

    With normal finned-tube baseboard heat, most of the heat transfer would seem to be by convection. In the beautiful setup of the picture, there are no fins, so the transfer by convection would seem to be less (per foot of copper tubing). So does this setup heat more by radiation? Or is the tubing just lengthened so make up for the lack of area caused by the lack of fins?



    BTW: is that copper tubing going to be lacquered to keep its color, or will it be allowed to be oxidized with time?
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