putting fins on steam pipes for heat

Christian Egli_2

My vote is for keeping the main insulated, you don't want to mess up balance issues. Unanimity so far.

Anther option instead of the hot water loop is to install a ceiling radiator feeding off the steam main. You'll have a valve to control the room.

For instance, installing a little bit of ready-made fin tube will be much easier than destroying the messy fiber insulation and figuring out how to glue fins on the old pipe.

With a little care, there is nothing wrong using steam fin tubes on the ceiling. Buy Dan Holohan's books, it's in there. Here is also a photograph of a two pipe ceiling fin tube

T_2

I have a steam pipe main 2 1/2 " in the basement. Want to remove fiberglass insulation and somehow put metal fins like are on baseboard around the cooper pipe to heat the room. Was told this is possible any ideas how to go about doing this?

bob young

modern method

Waste of time & cash. run a little auxilary hot water baseboard loop off the condensate return. the fin method is vintage 1940

Brad White_156

I agree with Bob

Take Control of your heat distribution. A controllable loop for as-needed, on-demand and to-temperature control is far more economical than a parasitic loss you cannot control. Keep the pipes insulated and do not penalize the entire system for the sake of a space with presumably less use than the main living space.

Peace, Out.

Brad

bob young

lucrative job

i love the ceiling fin tube engineered job. i could slap that baby in for about five thousand. lol

Christian Egli_2

Well, uh, hey look Ma, no pumps

This one heat a large hallway from a remote thermostat. Of course, a single row with a simple thermostatic radiator valve would do the same as this $$$ job, but on a smaller scale.

Here's another picture of a shining example.

bob young

dotsa nice !!