I have baseboard heat in my house. We have one baseboard that is frequently blocked by coats hanging on a coat rack. When this happens my wife is upset because she thinks that it will prevent the house from warming up effectively.
But this doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. With an unblocked baseboard the heat radiates off the baseboard fins into the air which is now warmed and the house is comfortable.
In the case of a baseboard blocked by coats wouldn’t I just have a situation where the baseboard warms a coat and then the heat dissipates from the coat into the air? There’s heat rubs no less frequently or intensely as the thermostat is in a different part of the room. So the same net amount of heat is being generated. It just has a detour before it gets into the air. No?
Thanks for explaining.
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Isn’t baseboard heat practically radiant heat? Basically your warming objects instead of the air. With forced air your super heating air. Heat rises and as is cools the semi warm air falls to technically the “living space” but as far as your situation. You’re just warming the coats and therefore the coats are radiating the heat off them. In theory.
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