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Baseboard Heat Diagnosis & Repair Questions & Answers

These questions & answers about troubleshooting and fixing problems with forced hot water baseboard heat were posted originally at BASEBOARD HEAT - delight be sure to also review the how-to advice given in that location.

Tepid or Cold Baseboards: five Steps to Set a Baseboard that Does Not Get Hot

1. Make sure that your room thermostat is ready to a temperature college than the temperature in the room - and so that information technology is calling for heat.
   But if you're certain your thermostat is calling for oestrus, go on below.

   Run into THERMOSTATS, HEATING / COOLING if you demand help with that device.

2. Zone Valves: if your room thermostat controls a zone valve make certain that the zone valve motor operates and that the zone valve opens; annotation that some hot h2o heating systems use ane circulator feeding multiple zones controlled by private thermostats and zone valves while other hot h2o heating systems may use multiple circulator pumps, one per heating zone.

   If you're sure your zone valve is open (or at that place are no zone valves), continue below.

   Othewise see ZONE VALVES, HEATING for details.

3. Check that the circulator pump(southward) are running;
   If the circulator is running the pipes before and after the circulator should be hot. If so, continue below.

   Meet CIRCULATOR PUMPS & RELAYS for details.

4. Make sure that your heating banality is working, that is that the heating boiler turns on and off normally. A hot water heating boiler may not turn on immediately when you plow upward the room thermostat:

   if the h2o temperature in the boiler is already above the aquastat'southward cutting-in temperature the circulators will send hot water to the radiator and the boiler will plow on later when its temperature is dropped by returning water from the cooler radiators in the building.

   When the boiler temperature falls below the aquastat's cut-in temperature the banality should run. If it does, go on below.

   Or meet NO HEAT - Banality

5. Cheque for an air-bound heating line or baseboard segment if the baseboard never gets hot.

   Run into AIR-Leap HEATING SYSTEMS

   Yous may also need to see AIR BLEEDER VALVES and if you need to add bleeder valves

   Meet AIR BLEED VALVE INSTALLATION

6. Cheque for dirt or dust clogging the finned tubing of baseboard heaters that utilise that component (photograph at above-left) or check for air flow blockage at the bottom opening (cool air inflow) and top opening (warm air outflow) at the baseboards if the bodily baseboard piping gets hot but not plenty rut comes into the room.

FP

Let's start with a await at the air bleeding procedures at AIR-Leap HEATING SYSTEMS https://inspectapedia.com/heat/Air_Bound_Heating_System.php

There are a couple of ways to strength water through the zone using a pony pump vs adding bleeders, though ultimately you lot may want to add some air bleeder valves.

Distressing. That previous bulletin was not anonymous. It was me! FP!

Thanks!
Forgot to mention; there are no bleeder valves on the zone in question, and they are baseboard heaters below the level of the boiler by just that much.

Actually, only one of the four zones (the largest and most complex) has bleeder valves and that only on half of the radiators.

My procedure (correct me if this is misguided) then is to close off the send and return valves of the other three zones (all thermostats off and burner off) at the boiler, leaving only the zone I am bleeding open. I then open up the drain valve of that zone (into hose) and upward the incoming water force per unit area at the regulator valve. This is all of form at the boiler. I let that run for a while keeping an centre on the hose end for signs of air.

When satisfied, I cut the water pressure level dorsum down and immediately close the drain valve, adjusting pressure if needed and then open up all back upwards, turn on burner, and call for heat.
Should I non be closing off the other zones? Besides, should I have the zone's impeller ON when haemorrhage?

FP

First permit's look to make sure there isn't a balancing valve or service valve that's closed.

2d, even though yous've tried to bleed the air out of the zone, it may still exist are jump.

Information technology can exist difficult to push air up and then down then around and then out to a bleeder depending on where your bleeders are located.

Commencement at AIR-BOUND HEATING SYSTEMS

Where we refer to using a
a pony pump to strength air out of an air bound hydronic heating system - I might endeavor that next.

I have a hydronic organization with 4 zones. One zone in the basement, the shortest run and closest to the boiler, is a baseboard zone with two baseboards.

These stopped making heat and I diagnosed and establish the Taco circulating pump to be dead. I replaced that, confirmed that it was working, and bled the entire system.

I bled the zone in question for quite a while. It is a brusk zone run with almost all of its ~thirty' total send and return run of copper exposed and visible.

With system upwardly and running again and the new motor definitely working, the zone is nevertheless non heating up. On the zone in question, the inlet to the new pump and the pump body get hot when thermostat is on. The bleed valve just above on the riser coming out of pump lets out hot water when opened.

However, just beyond this valve and on the continued run the pipes remain cold. How is this possible? With the zone then exposed I tin encounter no leaks nor imagine how air could exist again "settling" in this the lowest run of the house. What could be going on hither??

we need an experienced heating service tech onsite;
she volition
- check banality temp
- cheque circluators and/or zone valves
- check air bleeders

No, this just started i week ago. Earlier the rooms were nice and warm, at present they are cool.

Upwardly

And so have the cool rooms e'er been too cool on cold days? That'd be diagnostic and would propose

- inadequate corporeality of oestrus being provided in anxiety of baseboard or number of radiators
or
heating pipes to those rooms run through a cold space similar an unheated attic or crawl expanse
or
recurrent air bound pipes
or
- an unusual rate of heat loss

I'd debate for a recurrent air blockage problem kickoff IF on haemorrhage air the pipes all of a sudden rut upwardly;

the trouble is fifty-fifty after all that the rooms are still cool.

Sounds right; air in the hot water pipes can block hot h2o flow; notwithstanding if there'south a leak elsehwere or the whole system needs haemorrhage the problem volition return

I believe information technology is forced hot water. When the landlord came he took the air out to the point it was water that came out. According to him there is no trouble.

Up

The thermostat will only respond to the temperature right at its very location. So it's easy for other flat areas to exist at a different temperature than the room where the thermostat is mounted.

But if thermostat is set to 25 and the temperature at the thermostat never reaches that number and then the delivery of heat to the room is inadequate; that could be any of a number of issues that depend on the kind of rut such equally steam, forced hot water, or air.

In my apartment the estrus us ready at 25, simply the thermostat shows 20. My living room is nice but the bedrooms are cool. Can you please tell me the problem. I would very much appreciate whatsoever help you could provide.

Cheers I really appreciate the advice. I'll take a look at adding an auto bleeder and relocating my bleeder as well. Hopefully it's just air and I'll get information technology out.

Stephen

When I've had poor heating issues like this it's oft been because I idea all the air was out of the pipage when it wasn't, and so that'south my first focus.

For instance, you might drain a bolus of air near a bleeder valve but the side by side oestrus-on bike may push some air from downstream in the arrangement to the same betoken.

That'southward a reason to exist sure to drain the unabridged system and to install float type air vents at high points at the boiler and at the highest other points in the edifice.

Other possibilities could be a solder blob blockage if in soldering a articulation you pushed too much solder into the connection.

And yes there tin be a flow problem at tees in copper baseboard pipe. For case at a left and right tee feeding 2 sub-zone loops, if one of those loops, say the left one, is longer or college than the other, say the correct one, and then the lower-resistance loop will get more than hot water.

Plumbers may install a balancing valve on loops to gear up the problem. The balancing valve tin be anywhere in each loop that's convenient.

Thanks for the information. So if I was to presume I got all the air out, is at that place annihilation else I should be looking for?

I don't understand why the rads first to become warm and and then pitter out. In that location is another rad for upstairs that is further down the aforementioned return line that I spliced into and that one is fine.

To me it well-nigh seems like the h2o on the supply side is not able to push through the rad and become through the render line. It starts to because the radiator starts to warm merely and so stops quite of a sudden. It'southward infuriating lol. I used orange pex with an o2 bulwark to supply and render the water.

Does that negatively impact something? I also cut into i/ii inch supply and return line is that not a large enough pipage?

further back on the supply and return it'due south a larger pipe that's either iii/4 or an inch in bore. Should I splice into there?

I also had taken the two return lines from the two radiators and teed them together and and then ran one line support to the primary render is that my problem mayhap do I need to split return lines? Whatsoever help is much appreciated.

Stephen in my OPINION where you have that bleeder is ok - it won't hurt a thing, but information technology'd be more effective on a high signal in the piping. Find how the return branches towards the wall horizontally (at your bleeder elbow) and then runs UP?

Any air in the organization wants to be in that up-line so if that line has a plough somewhere, a bleeder elbow there will exist helpful.

Air in heating lines is actually sneaky. You can get a "partial" blockage of air in the horizontal lines in which some water gets by but an air bubble is obstructing much of the flow.

You lot'll know when you've got the air out because assuming the boiler is hot and the circulator is running, when the meddlesome air blob is removed the baseboard lines will get quite hot in just a few minutes.

See AIR-BOUND HEATING SYSTEMS https://inspectapedia.com/heat/Air_Bound_Heating_System.php

And see AIR BLEED VALVE INSTALLATION https://inspectapedia.com/rut/Air_Bleed_Valve_Installation.php

You lot'll notice that I endeavor to position my bleeder valves on elbows such that the valve is upright and catches air ascent.

More air bleeders are good at every loftier indicate in the piping, and of course yous can add float blazon automatic air bleeders likewise as manual ones.

I installed them coming off the return line. I attached a photo.

I would bank check beginning for a partial air blockage; where have you installed air bleeders?

Hello. I accept installed two new 8 ft baseboard hydronic radiators in my basement that I'm refinishing

. I simply came off the supply and return lines that are located in my basement already. The new rads start to get warm and their respective supply lines get pretty hot, but then they cool apace and the rads never get hot.

The rest of the firm is fine notwithstanding.

Is information technology besides hard for the return flow to button 8ft vertically? And is that why the rads don't get hot? There is no air in the line that I can find. Practice i need a bigger circulator pump? Thanks for the help!!!

Ernest

Although I take not come across their use in calculation heating baseboards, in that location are plumbing techniques that permit a plumber to cut into a water filled line when the h2o cannot be shut off.

There's also a pipe freezing technique or you tin install a quick-and-easy Shark-Seize with teeth shutoff valve.

In our plumbing manufactures I have also described a really neat invention that a Mexican plumber showed me he had built that inserts into an active h2o line and uses an expanding plug to temporarily block the line, only I don't call back that's going to be suitable for your application.

Of class the freezing technique would wait that the heat is off in the system is absurd.

Alternatives that volition piece of work for you are all summarized

at EMERGENCY Water SHUTOFF VALVE

In any case you're still going to need to bleed air from the system when the additional anxiety of baseboard have been connected.

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can boosted hydronic baseboard elements be added without shutting downwards the line

want to add together approx 3ft to existing

is there a ways to tap into the existing line while it is in operation (iike tapping into a water line to add a filter etc a little pet cock)

Thank you and so much for your reply. Yea, will take my plumber in.

Rose

With and so little information I can only make a vague gauge. Just it'south possible that your radiator Outlet is blocked or clogged with debris such as rust flakes. If hot water is definitely entering the radiator merely the residue of the radiator body stays cold the radiator is either Airbound or Outlet is clock. Since you've led the top of the radiator where are would escape and you lot're getting no more air That'due south What suggests it may be chock-full or blocked. It'south time to go some help from a heating service technician.

The hot h2o radiator stopped heating of a sudden. I bled it, some air came out but non much. I bled it iii times, I let water out just radiator is still cold. The water that comes out is very hot but the radiator is very cold. What can I exercise?

Clive, it's standard copper plumbing (except thinner copper) - cutting and solder. If you are trying to reduce rut output in that location are better alternatives

Get-go: close the baseboard top louver

More problem: remove some of the fins from the tubing to reduce its radiation

I have a baseboard h2o heating system installed in the 1960s when my bungalow was built ...just similar the photograph (ours in greyness outside though). How do we shorten the period and return pipes?

clive suzieandclive45@gmail.com

Larry,

Possibly you can use the picture show frame icon next to the comment button to attach a photograph and that will help united states of america enquiry or will encourage other readers to reply

we had a radiator freeze this by winter, trying to find a replacement. mine are baseboard, three feet long, they have 3 tubes through with a manifold at each end. i cannot find this type replacements, any ideas, cheers

Follow the baseboard pipe, feeling for a temperature drop, to find the blockage, disconnection, or air-bound pipe.

encounter AIR-BOUND HEATING SYSTEMS

The Furnace is operating and heating all the rooms except family room and basement..

Both pipes market family room and basement from the furnace are hot, yet both rooms baseboard are common cold. We are experiencing nil temperatures in NY...

Let united states see the situation in photos.. Employ the picture frame icon adjacent to the Annotate button

The wall area higher up our 3 twelvemonth old electrical baseboard heater is very hot to the bear on. The thermostat is a wall mounted manner and is likely 25+ years sometime.
This seems like an air circulation problem to me?

The unit is installed resting on the floor, however the intake area is at to the lowest degree 1/ii inch off the floor.
Thanks

Denice,

Since baseboard in a single zone is usually run as one cereal Loop of piping it's non possible to turn one of the baseboards off because that would turn off everything in the loop.

However what yous tin do is to Reduce the air menstruum through the baseboard in the room that'south likewise hot. That can exist done by closing movers at the outlet or acme of the baseboard if there are whatsoever. Foremost cast fe baseboards that do not have louvers you tin block the air entry at the bottom for example with carpeting. Or you lot could experiment just was some towels.

Also if the other baseboards are never getting hot it maybe that your system is partly air jump - that'due south a status that your heating service tech can correct.

I have old bandage iron baseboard heaters in my house. Zone 1 takes care of the showtime floor and upstairs bath, everything good there. My problem is zone 2 takes care of the three bedrooms only one sleeping accommodation gets extremely hit while other two are comfy or cooler.

I'd like to know how to pass up or even completely cutting the heat off to the very hot room. I checked at both ends in each room and there are no shut off knobs, just bleeders. What can I do ?

Check for the louvered pinnacle opening is in the open position

Baseboard is hot on superlative just can't feel the heat coming out of it.

New banality no heat to second floor

Lex,

As the whole house is on i heating zone you may simply desire to reduce the heat output of the upstairs baseboards by closing their output louvers.

Opening the windows not simply increases your heating bills, it actually speeds the movement of warm air from downstairs to the upper floor.

We have an one-time (1900'due south) ii story house with hydronic hot water baseboard heating. The thermostat is on the starting time floor and when it is set at sixty or then the first floor rooms are virtually sixty. Notwithstanding, the rooms on the second floor are 10-15 degrees warmer.

Is there some way to even out the estrus? Right now we open a window on the 2d floor but that seems to exist not platonic.

On 2016-05-xx John: how much does dust block baseboard heat output

Interesting I can't find whatever published information on how much dust and dirt reduces the efficiency of radiant fin tube. Dirty coils take a meaning outcome on forced air systems.

I would expect the the negative upshot would non be as much, but who knows for certain. Does anyone know the judge per centum reduction in efficiency class dirty and dusty fin tube?

Reply:

I accept non seen quantitative analysis, merely take a look in the photo shown here. When the baseboard is dust clogged similar shown y'all're probably blocking at to the lowest degree fifty% of the air flow through the heater.

What if Nosotros've got Hot Water Heating Radiators, Non Baseboards

The five diagnostic steps above however employ for hot water radiators, but you've got an additional advantage: at that place may exist a radiator control valve (blood-red circle in our photograph) to check (is the radiator turned on?), and there may be a handy air bleeder valve near the top of the radiator (blue circle in our photo).

If your heat is not from a heating baseboard (similar the unit shown at the peak of this page) but instead is coming from a hot h2o radiator (shown at left) or steam radiator and so you need to see one of the two manufactures given immediately beneath:

Complete details near diagnosing and fixing common cold radiators are found

at COLD HOT WATER BASEBOARD / RADIATOR

and
at Common cold STEAM Estrus RADIATORS

Question: heating baseboard gets hot fifty-fifty when the thermostat is not calling for heat

(Dec 8, 2014) Rob said:
Hello,Having a problem in my basement heating system.Circulaing hot h2o with seperate t stat and pump for this area. Baseboard. so the trouble is that the system piping gets hot and the basement remains warm even though the basement stat is off or fix very depression.

There are 2 other zones(pumps) on the banality.My thinking id that there might be some kind of flow though this area from one of the other zones.Rhanks in advance for your assist Rob rssolomon@aol.com

Respond:

Rob,

Bank check if the circulator is a separate pump for this zone then you don't have a zone valve.

There may be a period-control valve that is stuck open or manually opened, letting hot h2o circulate by convection or when other pumps are running.

Seeinspectapedia.com/heat/Check_Valves_Heat.php

(December ix, 2014) Anonymous said:
thanks for your quick response.Yes the circulator but serves this area.There are no zone control valves in the organisation.There are no check valves either

Question: baseboard heater won't get hot

(Dec 12, 2014) Missy said:
Hello,
I have fin baseboard rut(building built in 1974) in an apartment. The dining room bb heater is not working at all, the rest are working fine. Can I make an adjustment on this particular model to get it working and how?

Reply:

Missy If the baseboard is air-spring it won't go hot - to read most like shooting fish in a barrel homeowner repairs

see AIRBOUND Estrus System REPAIR

Question: I made a horrible smell while bleeding the heating baseboard ines

(Dec xviii, 2014) Kim Bogert said:
I have a horrible smell coming from a baseboard. The smell is strongest afterwards bleeding the lines. Any thought what can be causing it?

Reply:

Kim during haemorrhage of air in a hydronic heating organisation, air bled from a hot water heating system can be stinky but the odor should speedily misemploy and not return. That'southward normal.

Question:

(Jan vii, 2015) Anonymous said:
I don't accept heat in the offset iii rooms where the h2o comes upwards to my baseboard, simply I practise have heat to the last 2 rooms at the end where in returns. How does that happen? It is cold out. Could at that place be a blockage and where? And how am I getting heat to the end of the system?

Answer:

run across AIRBOUND Rut System REPAIR - live link given below

Question: hot pipes but no estrus at baseboards

2016/02/xiii Felix said:
How-do-you-do my boiler has 2 zones, 1 is for my second floor apartment and the other is for the attic. The pipes by both zone valves are burning hot but the baseboards are non getting hot all. What might be incorrect? Tin can you help?

Reply:

Felix

Search InspectApedia for AIR Spring RADIATORS as I suspect that the rads or in your example baseboards or pipe to them are air bound

Question: one baseboard radiator won't become hot

(Mar 3, 2015) Joe said:
We have a hotwater radiator system which is a combination of regular radiators with a couple of baseboard radiators. Terminal week nosotros had a furnace problem and had to close down and drain the organization for repair. It is now fixed and everything is working EXCEPT one baseboard radiator.

The system has been bled several times. I tin bleed the non-working baseboard radiator, and get hot water, only equally soon every bit I finish haemorrhage the baseboard radiator cools back downwardly. The rest of the radiators are working fine. Any thoughts?

Reply:

Cheque for an air source that you've not found in the pipe organization or for incomplete system air removal.

Question: burning smell at heating baseboards & opening baseboards to increase heat output

(Mar 12, 2015) Doreen Corn said:
I keep smelling a called-for smell in my baseboards..I accept vaccum them , what is making that burning odour throughout my abode, and who should i call?

(Mar 14, 2015) Mark said:
Hope someone can answer Joe and Doreen's questions (and mine). Here'south mine: My mom thinks if you open the movable embrace on her baseboard hot water radiators she'll get more than estrus.

I figure they were made such that when you keep the encompass equally information technology should be (practically closed, about 1/four to 1/two inch open from the side slice), this allows heat to build, and and so more oestrus is generated. Any confirmation/thoughts on this? Cheers!

Respond:

Doreen and Mark:

there's nothing combustible on the baseboards themselves: copper, aluminum, steel components brand upwardly the unit. Check for a spill or for something that has fallen into the baseboard unit.

Unless the smelly baseboards are really leaking, the smell is about likely from something that is existence heated such as a spill on the baseboards or nearby, or pigment or wall paneling or fifty-fifty something Iin the wall or floor cavity near the baseboards. Search InspectAPedia for. SMELL PATCH Examination to run across a low cost method that might help pinpoint the source.

Mark:

Opening the hinged louver along the top of a heating baseboard increases the estrus output by permitting more air to circulate through the unit of measurement, inbound at the bottom, exiting at the height, moved past convection.

Closing the louvers along the top outlet of a heating baseboard will reduce the heat output as it slows convective air movement across the finned tubing of the baseboard.

Your mom is right.

The estrus is generated at the boiler, not in the baseboards.

You are right that if you closed the louver the baseboard pipage would feel hotter. But that'southward because you are no longer cooling it by moving room air across information technology. It'southward cooler because it'south not sending heat into the room.

Question: banging from the heating pipes

(Mar xv, 2015) Jeff D. said:
I have baseboard, hot h2o, furnace heating and shortly after my heating system turns itself off I hear a loud banging noise that comes from the final convector in the loop. I'1000 guessing that its jump upward air just I frequently drain the air from this terminal convector yet I withal hear this banging noise. What else can it exist?

Reply:

You should not have to be frequently bleeding air pit of a baseboard. Either there is air left in the organization that finds its manner to the baseboard or there is a leak to find and fix.

A loud bang may be water hammer caused when a circulator of zone valve closes. InspectAPedia has articles on BANGING PIPES and besides on H2o HAMMER that offering solutions. Try the search role above.

Ask your heating company for some diagnostic assist, banging pipes can ultimately exist unsafe as it can cause relief valve leaks.

Question: leaks at baseboards later ran out of oil

(Mar 21, 2015) Jerry Greyness said:

I have a business firm with the baseboard hot water rut from an oil banality furnance. The house run out of oil and the house had no heat. Leaks started throughout the baseboards for the circulating hot water heat.

Each fourth dimension the repairs are fabricated the there are more than leaks each time the banality is fired up. What tin nosotros do to solve the trouble?

Reply:

Jerry
We need to offset by finding out what is causing the leaks - an accurate diagnosis: if the trouble is due to freezing pipes and so ane they're repaired you may want to use an antifreeze in the heating system. If the leaks are due to corroded piping and so all of that will need replacement. If the leaks are due to poor workmanship the solution to that is apparent in the saying.

Keep in heed that heating baseboard copper pipes are thin-wall; if your heating system h2o is corrosive that could exist the problem.

Question: Con Ed says my electric neb increment is because I'm using more than heat - merely we have hot water heating paid by a divide fee.

(Mar 22, 2015) Michele said:
I live in an apartment and all of a sudden my electric pecker has doubled when I called ComEd they said that I must be using more heat - when I told them the building has hot h2o baseboard heat (a fixed fee paid for seperately) ComEd said that there is an electrically powered blower to button the heat into my apartment - REALLY?

Reply:

I don't know what the heck your Con-Ed phone contact is thinking nigh.

There are indeed electrically operated circulator pumps and if your heat was from a water-to-air heating convector that unit would have an electrical blower fan but geez you told them you had hot h2o estrus.

Y'all need an on-site electrician with an ammeter if you lot want to see what circuits are cartoon unusual current, or you can experiment by turning off circuits and watching your electric meter spin.

Question: baseboards won't go hot

(Mar 29, 2015) Joanncull said:

This is a problem with a hot water baseboard heating system with a gas furnace. I have hot water(so the banality is working) and I can hear the water circulating through the baseboards in all zones, but they aren't heating up?
I'm stumped and none of the tips I've found on-line accost an issue similar this.
Anyone have whatsoever ideas?

Reply:

Sure Joann

at Go along READING just above

see

AIR-Jump HEATING SYSTEMS - home

Question: how to concur the spliced heating baseboard cover in place

(Sept 10, 2015) Jamesd said:
We are looking to observe a splice plate and a subclass/hook to concord the spliced baseboard heater embrace in identify.

Nosotros have a very old system (1960's) and can't find replacement parts. Where might the best place exist to offset our search?

I recall our arrangement is the aforementioned ane that's in the first photo at the summit of the page. I can see the hooks that hold the covers on and at that place is a splice plate likewise. If anyone knows where to buy replacement parts for that system it would be welcome advice.

Reply:

James the part you demand is sold past heating and plumbing suppliers - it'south used in normal baseboard installation to cover the barrel joint of two baseboard covers.

Question: Parsonage heating baseboard non hot

(Sept 27, 2015) Jerry said:
our Parsonage has a two zone baseboard organisation. a thermostat 1st & 2d flooring our first flooring is getting heat but the 2nd floor is non. at the heater one regulator is hot on one side but at the regulator that feeds the second flooring is cold on both sides of that regulator ?

Reply:

come across

AIR-Leap HEATING SYSTEMS - home - found past searching Inspectapedia for those words.

Question: insulate betwixt baseboard and exterior wall?

(Oct 5, 2015) Adam said:
What are the requirements for insulation between the base of operations lath and exterior wall. I have some suspicion that their is no insulation between the baseboard and cinderblocks on my bottom level.

Reply:

Typically the heating system relies on insulation inside the wall cavity. I agree that if heating baseboards are run forth a solid masonry exterior wall then there will be some heat loss into the wall itself; A retrofit adding solid foam and drywall on the wall would improve matters just information technology is troublesome as the heating baseboards would have to exist removed and reinstalled. Ugh.

Question: cold concrete condo baseboards with air noise

(Oct 18, 2015) Nic said:

concrete condo, 2nd floor, baseboard heating has constant sound such as a forced air arrangement. Too, sections ever radiate heat even when thermostat is way depression and not calling for oestrus. Rooms are 23-25C all the fourth dimension fifty-fifty with windows open.

When turning up the estrus on thermostat the system clicks a bit indicating heating and provides rut. The building contractor says noisy and hot because my unit is located near and to a higher place the banality.

Do I demand to alive with this abiding sound for the unabridged winter or can I accept it capped and replace with my ain dissever electric baseboard heating that I tin control and accept some quieter operating arrangement when in utilize.

Answer:

See AIR-BOUND HEATING SYSTEMS - home

Question: repair for calcium build-up in heating pipes?

(Oct 19, 2015) Kevin said:

What tin can be done if your copper pipes are clogged, probably calcium buildup. What is the recommended procedure for cleaning out the pipes. There are 4 dissimilar zones in the arrangement. I tin can isolate each zone if I need to. I have purchased a water softener so one time everything is make clean, hopefully information technology will stay that manner.

Answer:

Kevin it's possible to acid-wash scaled copper piping only finding that problem in heating pipes would be very odd equally the heating organization does not commonly continue taking in new mineral-containing water. Scaling may not be the trouble.

If you are request about water supply pipe (non heating pipe) search InspectApedia for WATER Piping Calibration REMOVAL for advice.

Question: knocking cast iron baseboard heat

(Oct 30, 2015) Andrew said:
So I have a hot h2o fed bandage iron baseboard heating system. One of the baseboard units knocks at night when the heat comes on. I bled it and every unit in the house but found no air in them, directly stream of water from each ane. Any other thoughts?

Answer:

Sure, Andrew, but search inspectApedia website (come across the search box just in a higher place)

for BANGING HEATING PIPES RADIATORS

to come across some useful diagnostics for both hot water and steam systems. I suspect a noisy valve or a problem that's keeping you from successfully getting all of the air out of the rad.

and also meet AIR-BOUND HEATING SYSTEMS - home

Question: How do you bleed a banality heat lines

(Nov 19, 2015) Leanne said:
How do you lot bleed a boiler oestrus lines

Reply:

Leanne, come across the details on air bleeder valves at AIR BLEEDER VALVES

Question: heat always too high, I'm too hot

(Dec 13, 2015) Sharon said:
I live in an,apt bldg, and the heat is always kept up to loftier, which our thermostats do not control.how tin i safely cover my hot water registers to block out the heat??delight help!!

Reply:

Starting time talk with building management as heating costs are involved.

Then awe details constitute n
by searching inspectapedia.com for the article titled RADIATOR BASEBOARD or CONVECTOR COVERS

(January iv, 2016) Christopher said:
To Sharon, wrap parts of the fins in aluminum foil. DON'T Impairment THE FINS. Exercise information technology bit past flake until you become the desired result. The foil stops the circulation of air through the fins.

Moderator replies:

Christopher & Sharon:

Christopher's thought is attractive merely unless your heating baseboards have a removable forepart panel you won't have access to wrap the fins to reduce air motion through them and thus cut the heat output.

On a standard heating baseboard the convection current (warm air rises) that occurs up through the baseboard draws cool air from the floor up through the finned copper tubing where it is warmed before exiting at the summit opening of the baseboard.

To reduce baseboard heat output in a room or surface area within a heating zone, a standard pace that is effective to just close the hinged top comprehend along the basboard. By interrupting the air motility you lot significantly reduce oestrus output. Blocking air air entry at the lesser opening of the baseboard ( such as by carpeting ) has the same outcome.

Question: new flooring covering blocks baseboard lesser air inlet

(Dec 31, 2015) Sal said:
I had New hardwood floors installed. The cast iron baseboard was already in place. The cut the hardwood to fit under the legs and the baseboard is almost flush with the floors. No gap in betwixt. Is this ok? Volition the heat of the baseboard impairment that section of the forest due to constant high temperatures?

Reply:

If you close off the space between the bottom of the heating baseboard and the top of the floor you will reduce the oestrus output from the baseboard as you interrupt convection air currents that are a basic office of baseboard design and operation. The result may be a room that's also cool, longer fourth dimension to heat the room, or higher heating bills.

Question: circulator not responding to phone call for heat

(Jan four, 2016) Christopher said:
I have a two zone baseboard oil called-for system. Burner starts and runs fine. The basement zone works fine. Upstairs i have replaced the thermostat and circulating pump. It seems like the pump is not getting the call for rut. Is there something between the thermostat and circulating pump i tin check?

Respond:

Please see CIRCULATOR PUMPS & RELAYS - home

Christopher: if your upstairs heating zone is not working bank check

1. that the thermostat is set higher up room temp and thus is calling for heat
two. that the circulator pump runs for that zone, or if zone valves are used, that the zone valve opens

If both 1 & 2 are working properly then the system is probably airbound - search InspectApedia for AIRBOUND HEATING Organization to run into how to diagnose and repair that problem.

Question: baseboards are always hot - heat never stops - shouldn't the thermostat control the baseboard heat?

(Jan 16, 2016) Anonymous said:
The hot water baseboard registers are staying hot eventhough the thermostat is turned off. New thermostat installed only trouble still exsists. Ordinarily you tin caput the water flow in and out but now you can't.

(Feb 23, 2016) New maintaince human being said:
I accept an apartment with baseboard h2o heat, only the rut won't turn off. I turned the thermostat off but yous tin can nevertheless heat the h2o rushing through the pipes which are hot. I was told to check the wire running from the thermostat to the baseboard but I don't know what to await for.

(Jan 22, 2016) anonymous said:
Does the thermostat control the baseboard heating.

(Jan 22, 2016) Anonymous said:
Should oestrus be coming from the baseboard if the thermostat is turned all the way downwardly.

2016/04/11 Robert said:
Informative site - thank yous!

I live in a condo with a hot water heating baseboards. Heat in the summertime months is e'er a big trouble in the unit of measurement, getting roasting hot, and I notice that the heating baseboards are quite warm to the touch on (although not scaldingly and so - like traditional radiators can exist).

The rut is on the middle section of the baseboad unit that has the radiator appliance (metal sheets), and the baseboard is not hot where the copper piping is on either side of that.

This situation exists despite the fact that the thermometor is fix to its lowest, and the baseboards are admittedly not pushing air out when the thermometer is set at its coldest.

Is this normal? Is at that place a way for me to cool down the baseboards further, so that they're absurd to the touch, at least in summer ?

Reply: what to look at if the heating baseboards stay hot when you are non calling for heat

Anon,

If yous are sure that the circulator pump itself is not running, then the about likely caption of the problem you lot depict is that a period control valve or check valve above or near your boiler has been manually left in the open position or has been stuck open. The results of this condition is that hot water will circulate out of the boiler by convection even if the circulator pump itself is not running.

If the thermostat is set beneath room temperature, the heating arrangement should stop sending oestrus - you may demand to wait for the baseboard to cool downwards; if after thirty minutes it's nonetheless hot then heat is notwithstanding circulating: there is then probably a problem with the zone control, thermostat wiring, or a check valve in the system.

See Cheque VALVES, HEATING Organization

New M. Delight search InspectApedia.com for HEAT WON'T TURN OFF to come across some specific diagnostic suggestions.

To check for a bad thermostat, just disconnect the thermostat wires at the boiler end of the thermostat circuit. That'd be at a primary aquastat command or at a circulator relay. You'll recognize the thermostat wires. Follow them. Disconnecting them at the boiler finish will eliminate possibilities of a bad thermostat or shorted thermostat wires. If the estrus keeps running the problem is at the boiler controls.

Heat tin also circulate when the circulator is off if the Catamenia Control VALVE (Search InspectApedia for Bank check VALVES, HEATING SYSTEM) is stuck open just that volition usually give a much slower flow rate that wouldn't exist likely to audio like water rushing.

Robert:

If your thermostat is not calling for heat but the baseboards are hot, and so either at that place is a control snafu or

- there is a valve or control at the banality that's manually open or stuck in open; information technology could be a zone valve or a check valve at the boiler that is allowing hot water to circulate by natural convection even when the circulator pump itself is OFF. Your condo association is wasting heating fuel if this is the case. No it's not normal. Just cooling down the baseboards at your stop is not a good approach as the underlying problems of energy cost and waste continue.

Ask your condo association to become help from an experienced heating service tech to find which control or valve is open up that should be closed.

Besides see HEAT WON'T Turn OFF

Question: install shutoffs in NYC flat on heating system baseboards?

(Jan 22, 2016) Ray said:
I am on the board of a six-story co-op in NYC. The Board requires anyone doing renovations involving their plumbing arrangement to install close-offs at all entry points to the apartment in guild to allow servicing without impacting other share-owners.

Some Board members desire to extend this to include transmission shut-offs on entry and exit points for the hot-water baseboard radiator system. Is this a common practice? Are there any potential operational or maintenance bug?

Reply:

I practise non think that'southward a common practise. Also, depending on how the heating pipe and zones are installed shutting off a units heat could close off that of others too. Opinion,
I wouldn't bother.

Question: baseboard vents shut on their own

(January 29, 2016) Gerry said:
Some of our baseboard vents keep closing on their ain. Are there clips I tin use to keep them open?

Respond:

Gerry,

If y'all refer to the louvered vent along the top of a baseboard, try bending the hinge opening at the terminate of the vent to tighten it on its rotating pivot

If you are referring to air purging vents on the heating piping,

In that location are two types of vents; automatic ones that include a float and vent if air is present, and transmission ones that are manually opened to drain air. The latter are unremarkably left screwed close. The erstwhile open up and close automatically. The screw cap on the automated vent should be left loose. If the spiral cap is clogging with debris the vent may need replacement.

Question: oestrus in our New England farmhouse is inadequate

(Feb xiv, 2016) Alex said:
Hi - We just bought an former farmhouse in New England. We have hot water baseboard heat and woodstove. I've been keeping the thermostat at lxx degrees and yet the tiny old rooms don't get college than 55 degrees unless I'm cranking the woodstove.

I'thousand not even sure how to tackle this trouble - it could be my furnace (though that seemed to be in good shape when inspected twice in the last vi months - looks similar information technology hadn't been cleaned in many years, merely nosotros had information technology serviced and were told it'south in good shape),

information technology could exist my thermostat (it'due south ane of those actually onetime circular dial ones), peradventure the baseboard to room ratio is not enough, or perhaps our pipes are chock-full (our water is acidic and the copper pipes are slowly corroding - we accept plans to install a h2o neutralizer). How exercise I start to tackle this problem? I don't even know which kind of professional to telephone call.

Reply:

Alex

Take a look at your thermostat. If the room temperature is below the thermostat's set temperature then the heat should be running.

If the estrus is running take a await at your baseboards. Feel for rut coming from them. If baseboards are cold or tepid and then hot h2o is non circulating and repair is needed: perhaps to a circulator, control, or to remove air from the organization pipe.

If the baseboards are hot but the heating system cannot go the room temperature up to the thermostat set point, then your home is losing heat faster than your heating organization can provide it.

In that case you lot demand to meliorate the dwelling'due south energy efficiency by finding and stopping drafts and perhaps adding insulation.

In any instance information technology makes sense to take your heating boiler cleaned and tuned as that will reduce your heating cost.I'm guessing from your location that your heating fuel is oil. NO oil fired heating boiler will run properly nor efficiently if information technology does non receive an annual cleaning and tuneup. I've seen every bit much every bit a 25% reduction in heating cost from a cleanout alone.

Search InspectApedia for Free energy SAVINGS PRIORITIES for more assistance.

Question: electric baseboard estrus in our townhouse has a mind of its own

(February 16, 2016) kathryn said:
We just moved into a townhouse with electric baseboard heaters and one in our bathroom was replaced by an electrician (the heaters are 50+ years one-time) the i in my bedroom comes on when turned off information technology has a mind of its own.

They replaced the thermostat only it has connected to do this the electrician said something to the contracter nearly a valve malfunction or something he completely confused the contractor. What else could be causing this so I can be prepared when he comes in so I don't have to have him dorsum a third fourth dimension if whatever he does this fourth dimension doesn't work

Reply:

Kathryn the situation you lot described is unsafe, risking burn or stupor. Electric baseboard oestrus does not use "valves" so I accept no idea what that'south near.

Electrical heat is very simple: typically a resistance-type electric baseboard, running on 240V is powered through a line-voltage thermostat that basically acts as an on-off switch in response to the thermostat setting and room temperature.

I'd expect the electrician to ostend that the heater itself is undamaged and to track down a bad wire, connectedness, or thermostat.

Search InspectApedia.com for ELECTRIC BASEBOARD Rut INSTALL to read details.

Question: filter covers for baseboard heaters?

(Apr 2, 2016) D Munro said:
Tin y'all send information on filter covers for electric baseboard heaters - where to find them, sizes and price list? I have seen them advertised at ane time online, but haven't constitute them again since. Thanks very much! Here's my email address: dawn201196@hotmail.com (The landlord will supply them if I can find them again.)

Reply:

DM

I'm not sure what you desire nor what sort of filters are used on electrical heating baseboards - that'southward non something I've seen.

Question: soot coming out of oil baseboard heaters

(April 3, 2016) Jerry said:

Soot coming from my oil baseboard heaters. How practise I remedy this problem

Respond:

Jerry,

Your hot h2o heating baseboards comprise water; they won't emit soot. But grit, including sooty grit, can accrue on the fins and tubing inside the baseboard. *Conscientious* vacuuming with the baseboard covers off, using a soft brush, can clean the fins and tubing, but y'all might want to look further for a soot source in your habitation.

Start by checking that your oil burner is working properly - ask for service if it's smoky, rumbling, noisy, smelly, or if you have gone more than a twelvemonth without service.

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