Since HW Heating is the Subject du Jour
spinnm
| Posted in Energy, Heating & Insulation on
I came home from our one and only salvage yard yesterday and breathlessly told my husband that I could score some real, honest-to-gawd cast iron radiators. I want them for looks only….cost is not the issue.
He gave me that pained, what planet did she come from look that I so often see. Then he made is frequent comment of “often the memory is better than the reality”.
Is it worth rehabbing these things? Am I going to wind up with an air-infested, bleed all the time system….or could these things be really cool? Would like some advice from the Easterners who actually use them.
ShelleyinNM
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My first house had them. You avoid the drafts that make forced air uncomfortable to me, but you get hot spots and cold spots that I find equally uncomfortable. They also make placement of furniture and art objects on the wall awkward at times. I never found it hard to keep them running. Just didn't like having heat focused is spots. Prefer it evenly distributed.