I went round and round about what kind of heat to use on my weekend house, and, with the help of this board, decided on forced hot air with central a\/c. THEN my plumber\/heating guy tells me, guess what, looks like the old furnace is fine, the baseboards probably need minimal repairs, and why on earth would you scrap everything?<\/p>\n
Well, crap.<\/p>\n
So it looks like I’m keeping the baseboard. I hate the look of baseboards. But I really hate the look of the covers and all other covers I see online. Would it be insane to skip the covers? Just have a copper pipe lining the room? I know the covers provide some.. something to radiate the heat and I know they’d be really hot without the covers. But is that so bad? I have hot risers in my apartment and manage to avoid them.<\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I went round and round about what kind of heat to use on my weekend house, and, with the help of this board, decided on forced hot air with central a\/c. THEN my plumber\/heating guy tells me, guess what, looks like the old furnace is fine, the baseboards probably need minimal repairs, and why on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-46513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heating"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/07\/can-i-skip-the\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Can I Skip the Baseboard Covers?","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/07\/can-i-skip-the\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/07\/can-i-skip-the\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Heating","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ringo"}],"creator":["Ringo"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2010-07-19T10:45:01Z","datePublished":"2010-07-19T10:45:01Z","dateModified":"2010-07-19T10:50:34Z"},"rendered":"