baseboard heat

Wall-bottom heating system

Baseboard heat is a heating system using long, low units mounted along the base of walls where they meet the floor.

Electric baseboard heaters contain heating elements; hot water baseboards circulate heated water through pipes.

The system distributes heat evenly along room perimeters: The old apartment had baseboard heat that clanked and hissed all winter.

Related

warm · pipes · copper · boiler · registers · finned · convection · winter · dead of winter · molding · trim · kickplate · electric · zone · valves · bleed · hissing · clanking

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Opposites
heat distribution method

baseboard heatunderfloor heating

Warmth system beneath floors

heat pump · HVAC system · central air · space heater · wood stove

heating vs. cooling function

baseboard heatair conditioning

Indoor cooling system

central air conditioning · cooling system · refrigeration

centralized vs. decentralized heating

baseboard heatcentral heating

Building-wide temperature system

furnace · boiler system · space heater · portable heater

Family

base, board, heat, bases, based, basing, basically, boards, boarded

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G