I am finishing the basement of our minnesota house and we have a hot water heating system that has work fine but now all the lines in the basement will be cover with drywall and suspended ceiling tile so how much will that shut down the heating effect and what would be some ideas to get controllable heat in the basement.
Skim-coating with joint compound covers texture, renews old drywall and plaster, and leaves smooth surfaces ready to paint.
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So what you are saying is that the supply and return pipng to the rest ot the house is what you have been using to "heat" the basement?
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Some ideas of how to heat with hot water (not including imbedded infloor heating, which I'll assume is not practical at this stage):
Hot water baseboards, hot water radiators, hot water unit heater, hyrdonic fan coil unit, HW radiant panels, HW convector, HW cabinet unit heater.
Built a deck for a couple with similar issues, they finished off their basement, the room isolated from HWH. They plumbed a leg from the living room supply line directly above to a baseboard heater, and plumbed it back to the return. Pipes hid in the new walls. Obviously not the optimum arrangement, as the basement room only received heat when the living room loop was 'energized'. But it was quick and easy, I suppose.
Good luck.
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