PlatonicSolid
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Hi all, first post here.
My girlfriend has a bid on a house here in CT, but I'm concerned about the (no basement) slab construction with regard to the forced hot water heating system. The house is 1950s construction - Oil furnace - with radiators throughout except the living room, which has had the radiator replaced with a baseboard. It appears that all the copper pipes are either in or under the cement slab.
This sounds like a recipe for disaster to me. Won't the copper pipes corrode and leak? And if they do, isn't it possible that they could leak and you wouldn't even know it?
Also, I notice this house used to have a radiator in the kitchen, but it was removed leaving the one living room baseboard to heat the living room, kitchen, hallway and bathroom. This 1080 sq.ft. house has only one zone. The thermostat is located in the hallway on the end of the wall that separates the living room from the kitchen. If the bedroom doors were closed, I would imagine that they would get quite warm while the single living room baseboard reaches the desired temp.
Since I see no reasonable way of running new lines in the cement floor, if we want to add a baseboard to the kitchen and a small baseboard in the bathroom, can I run the plumbing up the walls - through the attic?
Any advice / life experience appreciated.
My girlfriend has a bid on a house here in CT, but I'm concerned about the (no basement) slab construction with regard to the forced hot water heating system. The house is 1950s construction - Oil furnace - with radiators throughout except the living room, which has had the radiator replaced with a baseboard. It appears that all the copper pipes are either in or under the cement slab.
This sounds like a recipe for disaster to me. Won't the copper pipes corrode and leak? And if they do, isn't it possible that they could leak and you wouldn't even know it?
Also, I notice this house used to have a radiator in the kitchen, but it was removed leaving the one living room baseboard to heat the living room, kitchen, hallway and bathroom. This 1080 sq.ft. house has only one zone. The thermostat is located in the hallway on the end of the wall that separates the living room from the kitchen. If the bedroom doors were closed, I would imagine that they would get quite warm while the single living room baseboard reaches the desired temp.
Since I see no reasonable way of running new lines in the cement floor, if we want to add a baseboard to the kitchen and a small baseboard in the bathroom, can I run the plumbing up the walls - through the attic?
Any advice / life experience appreciated.