bathroom heating?
Heating in the bathroom: any opinions on what will heat the space best (there’s no radiator in there, and in any case the hot water system isn’t going to help in summer). Radiant heating seems like it could work, but how long does it take to actually heat the room? Would electric work or does…
Heating in the bathroom: any opinions on what will heat the space best (there’s no radiator in there, and in any case the hot water system isn’t going to help in summer).
Radiant heating seems like it could work, but how long does it take to actually heat the room? Would electric work or does it have to be hydro? How expensive are such systems, anyway (the bathroom is 77 sq ft, but the bathroom and shower will take up a good third of that floorspace). If we’ve already put in the subfloor, is it too late?
Otherwise, any opinions on the merits, advantages and disadvantages of electric baseboard heating vs some kind of electric wall heater? Do such things exist that aren’t horrendously ugly?
(Aesthetically, we’d love the towel rack kind of heaters, but ones that aren’t tacky or cheap looking are way out of our budget. I’ve yet to see a heat lamp that doesn’t make me shudder out of ugliness).
We have electric radiant in the bathrooms, the rest of the house is heated by old fashioned single pipe steam. It worked for us. I couldn’t tell you how much the air temp in the bath was maintained by the ambient warmth of the house versus the radiant heat. I can tell you that having even lukewarm floor tiles instead of cold goes a long way towards comfort, and that radiant heat does a nice job with the floor. If your bathroom is drafty, that may be another story. But you can use a thermostat with a timer and have the temp bump up say an hour before you get up in the morning.
You can run a radiant heating system off of your steam boiler but if an electric towel warmer is “way out of your budget” then there’s really not much to talk about.
Go with the heat lamp you hate the least.
My suggestion would be to buy an electric space heater and plug it in for those chilly mornings. And yes, I will call you a weenie…
That being said, you’re not going to be able to run radiant heat off your existing steam system.
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guest 9:12: My husband tried to make the same point. In the dead heat of summer true, but in the spring and fall, there are some mighty chilly mornings when it can be very unpleasant to get naked pre shower and worse wet post shower. Call me a weenie, but there’s gotta be some way of heating the bathroom beyond the heating system.
8:17 (and others), I’ve heard radiant heat is great, but also that it can be slow to heat it, and that electric and hydro deliver very different results. Would love to hear about experiences with either.
radiant floor heating — the only way to go! Perfect, clean heat source.
why would need heat in the summer?
radiant heat is great for a bathroom.
I think you should research heat lamps again. I’ve seen a few that were not ugly. An overhead heat lamp would be the way to go.