cold basement bathroom
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We’re turning our finished basement into our guest room.
The basement is cold - we are addressing that with electric baseboard heaters. Any ideas how to warm up the full bathroom, without what I assume is the massive expense of heated flooring? The bathroom is small- no room for a space heater or electric baseboards. One idea I had is to install a heated towel rack above the toilet (price on amazon is $150, and then the electrician to hardwire it). That doesnt warm the room, though. We are having a ceiling exhaust fan installed in the bathroom since guests will be showering in it. Are there ceiling exhaust fans that have a heater component, or perhaps the light portion can emit heat? I’d appreciate any ideas. |
Anonymous
| for a small bathroom, heated floors are not a "massive" expense. |
Anonymous
| heated floors are not that expensive if you're already redoing the floors. |
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| Heated floors. |
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| Oooo in the 90’s we rented a beach house that had a heat lamps in the ceiling of the bathroom that I think was attached to the fan? It was like being a rotisserie chicken. And they were red, so we had weird, hot kid dance parties in there. |
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We had a heater attached to a light way back in the day. I have no idea if they still have them. It was on a timer so would only run 15 minutes at a time or so, but definitely worked.
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Anonymous
Yes, this is a very reasonable option. It's not that that the light portion emits heat, but there is a heating element in the unit and the fan blows warm air down (just running the opposite direction from when it sucks moist air up). My grandparents had this in their very modest bathroom in the 80s, should be plenty of options. Also just had an AirBnB in New Mexico with this, which was fantastic when coming in from the pool. This may not cut it for the DCUM crowd though, who will probably advise demolishing your whole house and rebuilding new. 
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We have a combo exhaust fan/heater unit. Two switches. It's nice. |
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| You can buy overhead lighting with a heat lamp. |
Anonymous
We have something like this in our small master bathroom and it’s great. |
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| I will put a Panasonic Whisper Warm in every bathroom I renovate from now on. It's an exhaust fan and heater. I love it. |
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Sure it does. Heat is heat. Just look at the rated heat output. The heat output of a heater will be rated in either Watts or BTU/hr. One Watt =3.4 BTU/hr. A popular size for heaters is 1500 Watt, which is the biggest you can put on an ordinary 120V household circuit. That's 5,000 BTU/hr. Typically the heating requirement for a house is somewhere between 10 BTU/hr per square foot for new, tight construction and 40 BTU/hr per square foot for really leaky. Unless your bathroom is enormous a 1500W/5,000 BTU heater will be more than ample. What you might find in fact is that the towel heater runs less than you'd like, in order to keep the room from overheating the thermostat limits the run time and you don't get the toasty towels you wanted. |