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Which Thermostat is Best?

Opinion Seeker

2005-10-22, 7:21 pm

Hello,
Which thermostat would be best. I am fixing up a little house
with no electricity in it. In the living room i will install two
three-foot baseboard heaters, while in the other rooms one
three-foot heater. The heaters are said to have better
circulation if you install them directly under a window. For
creature comfort i will be using other forms of heat.

The reason these baseboard heaters will be installed is to
keep the walls from buckling from having 0 heat in the
house, so a little bit is better than nothing, and i expect will
do the job while i am away, basking in the Florida sun during
the three, bitterest, Winter months.

The question is: if i use the thermostat that goes directly on
the unit, i feel it will keep the units from getting too hot (if i
set it correctly), while if i have the thermostat on the wall, it
will read the room air too good and send the little heaters
into a dangerous tizzy of hot hot hot.

It is beyond me how the thermostat installed directly on the
unit works at all, but i guess they have it figured out
somehow.

Or what is the intelligent way of thinking along these lines?

These baseboard heaters are so well built, the parts have a
life-time quarante so i am putting my house in their hands,
and hoping they donot burn it down in my months’ long
absences. Scary, yes, but what else is there to do?

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RicodJour

2005-10-22, 8:21 pm

Opinion Seeker wrote:
>
> Which thermostat would be best. I am fixing up a little house
> with no electricity in it. In the living room i will install two
> three-foot baseboard heaters, while in the other rooms one
> three-foot heater. The heaters are said to have better
> circulation if you install them directly under a window. For
> creature comfort i will be using other forms of heat.
>
> The reason these baseboard heaters will be installed is to
> keep the walls from buckling from having 0 heat in the
> house, so a little bit is better than nothing, and i expect will
> do the job while i am away, basking in the Florida sun during
> the three, bitterest, Winter months.
>
> The question is: if i use the thermostat that goes directly on
> the unit, i feel it will keep the units from getting too hot (if i
> set it correctly), while if i have the thermostat on the wall, it
> will read the room air too good and send the little heaters
> into a dangerous tizzy of hot hot hot.
>
> It is beyond me how the thermostat installed directly on the
> unit works at all, but i guess they have it figured out
> somehow.
>
> Or what is the intelligent way of thinking along these lines?
>
> These baseboard heaters are so well built, the parts have a
> life-time quarante so i am putting my house in their hands,
> and hoping they donot burn it down in my months' long
> absences. Scary, yes, but what else is there to do?

I'm not sure what you mean when you say you want to add heating so the
walls won't buckle - what exactly would buckle? You also say that
there's no electricity - what runs the baseboard heaters? If it's an
oil/gas fired system, I don't think you'd want to leave that running
while you were away for months.

Winterize the house. Drain the plumbing, close the valves, splash in
some anti-freeze type stuff where necessary, and lock the house.

If you do go away for extended periods of time, you should check with
your insurance broker about your policy. Many times if the house is
unihabited for a month or more, the policy will not cover a loss.

R

m Ransley

2005-10-23, 8:21 am

You say no electricity, so its HW, but what runs the pump and boiler??.
Walls wont buckle. and if you keep it low pipes may freeze and
antifreeze reduces boiler efficiency. If the boiler breaks the system
freezes and is ruined. Drain everything of water, leave it cold, at 0
pipes at the walls may freeze if its set to 45, walls wont buckle, plus
electricity in my area will still be apx 75% more costly even with Ng
70% higher

Opinion Seeker

2005-10-23, 9:21 am

Hello, again,

I am having the house "fixed" therefore am going to have electricity installed,
thus the base-board "heaters" are electricity. Now then: back to the thermostat
installation . . .

"Opinion Seeker" <7957418@127.0.0.1:7501> wrote:
>
>Hello,
>Which thermostat would be best. I am fixing up a little house
>with no electricity in it. In the living room i will install two
>three-foot baseboard heaters, while in the other rooms one
>three-foot heater. The heaters are said to have better
>circulation if you install them directly under a window. For
>creature comfort i will be using other forms of heat.
>
>The reason these baseboard heaters will be installed is to
>keep the walls from buckling from having 0 heat in the
>house, so a little bit is better than nothing, and i expect will
>do the job while i am away, basking in the Florida sun during
>the three, bitterest, Winter months.
>
>The question is: if i use the thermostat that goes directly on
>the unit, i feel it will keep the units from getting too hot (if i
>set it correctly), while if i have the thermostat on the wall, it
>will read the room air too good and send the little heaters
>into a dangerous tizzy of hot hot hot.
>
>It is beyond me how the thermostat installed directly on the
>unit works at all, but i guess they have it figured out
>somehow.
>
>Or what is the intelligent way of thinking along these lines?
>
>These baseboard heaters are so well built, the parts have a
>life-time quarante so i am putting my house in their hands,
>and hoping they donot burn it down in my months’ long
>absences. Scary, yes, but what else is there to do?
>
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Bob Morrison

2005-10-24, 12:21 pm

In a previous post Opinion Seeker wrote...
> I am having the house "fixed" therefore am going to have electricity installed,
> thus the base-board "heaters" are electricity. Now then: back to the thermostat
> installation . . .
>

An alternative is to have solenoids installed so that you can control the
heaters with a central programmable thermostat. That's what I do in my
office. The programmable T-stat is just like the one you would use for
any central heating system. You could set the t-stat to be "on" for a few
hours a day and "off" the rest of the time.

A great way to save energy.
--
Bob Morrison, PE, SE
R L Morrison Engineering Co
Structural & Civil Engineering
Poulsbo WA

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