Installing a basement radiator

LongTownFellow

Hi folks, the owner of a ranch house has added a bathroom to the unfinished, unheated basement, and would like to install heat in the new bathroom. Heat to the house is supplied by a diverter T hot water system, pump away, 1 inch supply main, 1/2 inch branch connections to 7 cast iron baseboard radiators, with diverter Ts on the return side, serving the main floor. I was going to recommend that a 6 foot cast iron baseboard radiator be installed in the basement bathroom.
Will 2 diverter Ts cut into the 1 inch main loop serving ½ inch supply lines work for this application, or should a new zone be added to the boiler (Utica USC4 w/ taco 007 circulator)? The supply line from the main would be 4 feet horizontal and 7 feet vertical (down), and the return from the radiator would be 7 feet vertical (up) and 20 feet horizontal. Thankx.

ta finnegan

Suggestions.

Personally I would go with a new zone for this section. The diverter T's with the new piping and new radiation may prove too much for the circulator.

Better safe than sorry.

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