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Default Proper height of Baseboard

On 8/30/2010 1:48 PM, Gordon Shumway wrote:
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:05:47 -0400, wrote:

Use your head. You want air flow across the floor and up through the
baseboard. More space is better than less.

Please explain how you get air flow up through the baseboard.


Heat rises when the thing is hot thus drawing in cold air from the
bottom. You should know that.

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I am aware that hot air rises. Any fifth grader would know that.
What you haven't explained is how it goes "up through the baseboard."

Explain that.


or "across the floor". Here in Kansas, we call that a draft, and it is
undesirable.

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