improving an existing hot water base board system

Donald Raines

A new home (7 years) with a hot water baseboard system. Not adequate for winter cold. Limited wall space because almost 25% of wall space is window walls where baseboard tubes cannot be run. Any suggestions?

dconnors

Panel Radiators

Less wall space and nice even heat

DaveGateway

Many options

Like Dave said, they make panel rads that can be as high as a wall and only 2 ft wide. Fan coils are available both as surface and wall insert (or in-floor) mount. If you have AC cooling ducts, you might also think about putting a hydro-coil in the air handler and run some forced warm air into the room. Radiant flooring could be done staple-up from the basement or a quick track tubing system could be layed over the current sub-floor. I sure others can come up with even more ideas.

Boilerpro_3

Higher capacity baseboard

Most homes use standard residential baseboard about 7 1/2 inches tall and 2 1/4 inches deep. If you go to high output baseboard...about 8 3/4 inches tall and 3 inches deep.....you can get about 60% more output in the same length.

Boilerpro