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2. A 1500 watt hard wired baseboard heating unit is not very expensive.
Fri Mar 28, 2014, 10:36 PM
Mar 2014

And you don't need a 70" base board heater to heat your addition. You need to know the sq. footage of your room, and is it 220v or 110 v. Is your thermostat a on board the unit or is it a wall mount ? You don't need a 70" replacement base board heater, those old do dads by it's design wastes electricity big time. You will save a ton of money by replacing that old heater.
The new stuff is energy efficient. At home depot or wherever you would go to look at replacement heaters, it will tell you on the box what in sq. footage the unit can heat efficiently.

Cost, between $100.00 and $200.00. for the basic replacement. Soft heat is a little more. I just replaced a base board -a 5 footer with wall mount thermostat under $200.00 total with some additional stuff.

It will surprise you when you find out the cost of operation difference between the old style and the new energy efficient electric heaters. We install a lot of in wall forced air heaters as replacements for the baseboards. Cost between $150.00 and $200.00. But a swap out for your baseboard is faster and cheaper to do.

And stop using the old one, it's toast.

And how ya do'en !









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