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Stormin Mormon typed:
Friend of mine tells me he used to live in a place
with baseboard heaters (probably circulating hot
water) and another place with fan forced hot air.
Says the fan forced heat is very dry, but the place
with the radiators didn't feel dry.

Does this make any sense? Is there a difference?


I have heard contractors refer to forced hot air heat as "scorched air
heat". One time that I heard it was in the context of a project where we
were removing the old baseboard heat system and replacing it with a
gas-fired central HVAC system.

This was just in general conversation with one or two of the general
contractors who were giving estimates on that project and the other work
that was also included in that major renovation job (new roof, new baths, a
fire alarm system, etc). They were saying that one option would be to leave
the existing baseboard heat and just add a central A/C system for the A/C
part.

I took that to mean that gas-fired forced hot air heat systems heat up and
dry out the air before circulating it throughout the house. That seemed to
make sense to me, and I thought that may be one reason why people add a
humidifier to forced hot air heating systems.