electric heat

[Vinniem]

Here's my situation.

Homeowner needs electric heat installed in a room ( 23ft x 10ft) or 230 square feet.

They really don't want baseboard heat (there are only 2 out of the 4 walls I can mount in on anyway).

The ceiling ranges from 8ft on the low end to 15 ft at it's peak. (cathedral)

I plan to use 10 watts per square as a base for my caculation.

I'm looking for a wall mount type heater.

Any suggestions would help.

Thanks.

[growler]

You should be able to find a heater easy enough but I would suggest a ceiling fan to circulate the air because of the cathedral ceiling ( if you don't it will be over a 100 degrees at the peak of the room and your feet will still freeze ). :smile:

[LarryFine]

Vinnie, what's beneath this floor? You might be able to apply a heating method from below.

[benaround]

Vinnie,

Are the walls insulated, is there a lot of glass or windows in this room, is

there any heat at all in there now?? Even a fan forced wall unit (4500w) will

run all night and half the day in this size room and will cost a fortune to run.

Unless you are in a " mild winter " part of the country.

[mdshunk]

A few (2 or 3) properly sized fan forced wall heaters connected to a single wall stat will do the trick nicely. Be sure to pick a wall heater that is compatible with a wall stat, since after the stat shuts off the heat, the wall heater needs power to keep the fans running to reject the residual heat.

[stickboy1375]

Is the room already finished? I hate fan forced units they become annoying to listen to....

[mdshunk]

Is the room already finished? I hate fan forced units they become annoying to listen to....
Yeah, well he's not got many options here. Customer wants electric heat. The next choice up the ladder would be a heat pump mini-split, with two highwall units... one at each end of the space.

[stickboy1375]

Yeah, well he's not got many options here. Customer wants electric heat. The next choice up the ladder would be a heat pump mini-split, with two highwall units... one at each end of the space.


Thats why I was wondering if the room was finished... I would install ceiling radiant heat (http://www.infraredheaters.com/ceilings.htm) if it were my choice...

[LarryFine]

I asked about the floor for (almost) the same reasons.

[LawnGuyLandSparky]

Yeah, well he's not got many options here. Customer wants electric heat. The next choice up the ladder would be a heat pump mini-split, with two highwall units... one at each end of the space.

What's wrong with hydronic baseboards, a circulator, and an electric water heater? All the benefits (soft heat, non-drying, quiet) of typical hydronic heat powered by a traditional gas or oil fired boiler, but without the typical gas or oil fired bioler. (And chimney.)