[PaddleOn]

My basement has both water heated baseboard heat and an old 220 built in fan forced electric heater.The fan forced one I disconnected years ago because it sucks down electricity at a rediculous rate

I need to add more heat to the basement...mostly on those sub freezing nights.My problem: getting the waterline & return to the other side will require alot of work that I just don't have time/energy for.
But if I used electric for that end of the basement the panel/breaker is already right there.

So...my question is are the baseboard electrics still WAYYYY expensive to run?It would be about a 12' run...
In other words I know zip about electric baseboard heating
Pros/Cons would be appreciated

J

 

[MakoMike]

PaddleOn wrote:
My basement has both water heated baseboard heat and an old 220 built in fan forced electric heater.The fan forced one I disconnected years ago because it sucks down electricity at a rediculous rate

I need to add more heat to the basement...mostly on those sub freezing nights.My problem: getting the waterline & return to the other side will require alot of work that I just don't have time/energy for.
But if I used electric for that end of the basement the panel/breaker is already right there.

So...my question is are the baseboard electrics still WAYYYY expensive to run?It would be about a 12' run...
In other words I know zip about electric baseboard heating
Pros/Cons would be appreciated

J

In my last house I had electric baseboard heaing in the basement. Worked well, but cost a fortune to run. I only turned it on when we were going to be down there.

 

[STRIKERTHREE]

is the framing of the basement right up against the walls ? what type of ceiling drop or sheet rock ? if you have space behind the walls or a drop ceiling you can use pex tubing its flexiable plastic tubing used to feed the HW baseboard instead of copper pipe you could snake it there very easily

 

[Makoman16]

Considering the price of HHO these days, it's probably cheaper to run the electric!

 

[CHEVY1]

Back When

I bought my house 10 yrs. ago the whole back house( yea its big) was 100% electric baseboard, w/ 18 ft ceilings. Ripped that out right away.
New burner and new hot water baseboard throughout both houses 4 zones 12 G's.
Now I can't afford oil so thank god for FREE WOOD!!!!!!!!!