Anonymous
02/16/2024 15:59
Subject: cold basement bathroom
Anonymous wrote:
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.
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.
Anonymous
02/16/2024 14:35
Subject: cold basement bathroom
Anonymous wrote: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.
Anonymous
02/16/2024 12:42
Subject: cold basement bathroom
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.
Anonymous
02/16/2024 12:09
Subject: cold basement bathroom
Anonymous wrote: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
02/15/2024 21:17
Subject: cold basement bathroom
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ceiling fan with heater:
https://www.acehardware.com/departments/heating-and-cooling/portable-and-exhaust-fans/bathroom-fans/4012678
We have a combo exhaust fan/heater unit. Two switches. It's nice.
We have something like this in our small master bathroom and it’s great.
Anonymous
02/15/2024 17:08
Subject: cold basement bathroom
You can buy overhead lighting with a heat lamp.
Anonymous
02/15/2024 16:37
Subject: cold basement bathroom
Anonymous wrote:Ceiling fan with heater:
https://www.acehardware.com/departments/heating-and-cooling/portable-and-exhaust-fans/bathroom-fans/4012678
We have a combo exhaust fan/heater unit. Two switches. It's nice.
Anonymous
02/15/2024 14:23
Subject: cold basement bathroom
Anonymous
02/15/2024 14:22
Subject: cold basement bathroom
Anonymous wrote: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.
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.
Anonymous
02/15/2024 14:15
Subject: cold basement bathroom
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.
Anonymous
02/15/2024 14:12
Subject: cold basement bathroom
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.
Anonymous
02/15/2024 14:10
Subject: cold basement bathroom
Heated floors.
Anonymous
02/15/2024 12:46
Subject: cold basement bathroom
heated floors are not that expensive if you're already redoing the floors.
Anonymous
02/15/2024 12:45
Subject: Re:cold basement bathroom
for a small bathroom, heated floors are not a "massive" expense.
Anonymous
02/15/2024 12:43
Subject: cold basement bathroom
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.
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.