On May 2, 10:46*pm, Sam Takoy wrote:
Hi,

I have a very small room on the first floor and the hot water radiator
takes way too much space. I'm not considering a baseboard.

Here's how I would like to heat it?

Place fin tubing between the joists in the basement. Insulate the
subflooring to protect the hardwood floors (and I am not looking for a
warm floor). Install two registers through the floor at either end of
the way between the joists. Install a slow rotating fan somewhere along
the bay. Box the whole thing in.

My idea is that the air will get heated by the fin tubing and enter the
room.

Would something like this work?
Where does one buy fin tubing?

Thanks in advance,

Sam

I forgot to mention we have a room where the radiators were removed
and two fan unit heaters with copper radiators were tied in, it was
junk, when the boiler stopped firirng the heat stopped because the fan
units cooled in 2 minutes but the cast iron radiators in the rest of
the house radiated out heat for hours longer, a few years ago I junked
the fan units and put back in the radiators. Its not going to work
unless you zone it with a pump and its own thermostat, you just cant
mix radiators and get the same output, thats why cast iron that hold
gallons of water and weigh a ton work so well, they have thermal mass
and radiate. www.heatinghelp.com is all boiler pros, post at The
Wall. althvac is all heating Ho`s, a bunch of drunk assholes, post
there for abuse.