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Post by rblusthaus on May 27, 2010 10:23:17 GMT -6
And in my head, I wanted the heat to be somewhat pushed into the room, than merely rising straight up from the top of an uncovered radiator.
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Post by Ruffnek on May 28, 2010 8:53:34 GMT -6
And in my head, I wanted the heat to be somewhat pushed into the room, than merely rising straight up from the top of an uncovered radiator. A cover with a built-in electric fan? I don't know anything about steam radiators but I have to agree with Leo's Daughter that I wouldn't want my toddler learning a lesson about hot surfaces the hard way. I would either cover it or put a "fence" around it to keep the little one safe. |
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Post by rblusthaus on May 28, 2010 9:53:11 GMT -6
Cody, I think you may have misunderstood me.
No fans or anything else electric. I lined the inside of my covers with foil backed rigid insulation to "direct" or "urge" the heat thru the front of the cover.
I also stapled to the back side of the front FF the thin aluminum grating from the BORG to keep little fingers from getting to close to the radiator. Care still needs to be taken that those same fingers dont get caught between the grating and the front, if it is not secured with lots of fasteners (I think I used staples, but cant remember) you can get finger caught there if you try hard, and the little ones do indeed try hard.
Russell
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Post by larryh86gt on May 28, 2010 10:16:09 GMT -6
"Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination."
Frank Lloyd Wright, 1902
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Post by Leo Voisine on Jun 2, 2010 19:36:43 GMT -6
The heating of the room - from - a radiator is fully dependant on the - air flow -
There MUST be an opening at the bottom - to allow free flow of air to go into the radiator cover - and there must be an opening at the top to allow the free flow of air out the top of the cover.
You can fully block the front and the sides and the efficiency will not be diminished by much at all.
The radiator will give a little heat from convection - but very little. The bulk is from the rising warm air coming off the top of the radiator - moving the air in he room - and recirculating into the bottom of the radiator.
Many houses - have a couch directly in front of a radiator - with no adverse effect in the heating of the room.
---- I guess with Anna beginning to crawl -- we need to get something in place before heating season. BUT - then again, radiators have been around a LONNGG time - and families have learned to teach their kids not to touch the radiators. HECK - I always had a woodstove - much hotter than a radiator - and we did just fine.
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