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How much baseboard per room.

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FTWIII
FTWIII Member Posts: 14
in Gas Heating
I am renovating all three bedrooms. I want to know the formula to calculate how many BTU's are required to heat each room. How many liner ft of baseboard per room. Each room is getting new insulation, new windows (they will be bigger due to egress regulations, and new exterior, foam backed vinyl siding.

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  • CMadatMe
    CMadatMe Member Posts: 3,086
    edited August 2013
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    That Would Require

    You to do a heat loss..



    http://www.slantfin.com/index.php/professionals/heatloss



    Once you get that you need to pull the technical literature for the brand of baseboard you plan on installing and divide the heat loss of the room by the btu/hr per ft output of the board at the water temperature and flow rate you need to get your needed lengths. To calculate flow rate the formula is:



    gpm = btu/hr / (Delta-t x 500)



    Delta-t is the difference between the zones supply and return water temperatures. Example, a typical baseboard system uses a 20 degree delta-t, 180 supply, 160 return.

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  • Zman
    Zman Member Posts: 7,569
    edited August 2013
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    Heat loss

    Step one- Do a heat loss calc. There are good free calculators on line.

    Step two- Determine your boiler design temp. Conventional boilers will usually be around 170. With condensing boilers, the lower the better (max. 140).

    Step 3-Look at the output chart from the heater manufacture and pick the size that matches your design temp and heat loss calc.

    Carl



    Chris beat me to it, Oh well
    "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough"
    Albert Einstein
  • Rich_49
    Rich_49 Member Posts: 2,766
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    Good advice

    What Chris & Carl said . Do the heat loss . Nothing to add .
    You didn't get what you didn't pay for and it will never be what you thought it would .
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