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Kitchen heating options?
I live in an older home, and my kitchen gets cold in the winter even though the supply register is open. One reason may be because one wall of the kitchen is an exterior wall with wood lathe and plaster as the finsh (no insulation). I’m looking for options to better heat this space. I’ve look at radiant floor heating, because I plan to tile my floor, but this seems a little expensive and may not be adequate. I’ve also considered adding another supply register near the exterior wall.
So my question is Radiant floor heating or add a supply register?
I have a few thoughts for you…
Add a pellet stove. It will heat the room when you need to be in there and also can be used as a funky cooking addition to the room. Not to mention a great place to put winter gloves mitts and shoes around.
Create a passive heat vent. If the room borders on another room that does get adequate heat a hole in the wall will equalize the air.
Get insulation blown in. I have an old plaster and lathe home too… The breakfast room is exposed on 3 sides and live in Canada where -40F is not unheard of it helped here tremendously.
Check the heat run to the kitchen and see how many rooms it’s servicing before the kitchen Insulate the ducts. Check the sills in the basement under the kitchens exterior wall. Make sure your stove vent has a good damper on it.
Pull the molding off the window and the covers off the light switches and outlets and insulate them well. The tighter you make the room the better the AC will work too. If you have a gas stove follow the pipe to the floor and seal that too.
Put in a ceiling fan Pull warm air up in the winter and push air down in the summer.
All else fails consider an electric radiator vented under the toe boards. Have the controls installed counter height. Turn it on when your working in there and off when you leave. http://homerepair.about.com/od/heatingcoolingrepair/ss/elec_htr_types_4.htm
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