Baseboard heaters offer a powerful, versatile and quiet solution for zoned or supplemental heat. Because they lack moving parts, baseboard heaters require little maintenance and can remain functional ...

Homes built after 1950 or so are typically heated with either hot air blown through ducts or hot water pumped through baseboard heaters. Older homes often have cast-iron radiators, which produce heat ...

One of our website visitors, Robert, sent us an e-mail complaining that we never talk about hot water baseboard heating systems (localized radiant heating). “All I ever read about is forced hot air ...

DEAR TIM: I’m looking to buy a house, and I’ve seen online descriptions saying a house has radiant heat. What in the world is that? The house I grew up in had hot air that blasted out of ducts. What ...

Having spent 30+ years in residential construction, contracting, remodeling, maintenance and home repair, Deane now contributes DIY, informational and financial content as a freelance writer and ...

Baseboard heaters are popular in old and new homes alike, and here’s why: they’re relatively simple to install in retrofit situations and in new construction because there are no bulky ducts to run ...

Heating options for a building are so broad that property owners may have a hard time deciding among them They can go with the typical forced-air heating, which is highly common for its efficacy but ...