Q&A: Is there anything to put over an Electric Baseboard heater to prevent a fire?
Question by NYKEGYRL691980: Is there anything to put over an Electric Baseboard heater to prevent a fire?
I live in a small apartment and my couch is in front of my heater. I don’t have anywhere else to put it. Well now that it is getting colder out I want to turn my heat on but don’t want to have to pull my couch every time I turn my heat on. Is there anything that can be put over it that will allow the heat to come out but let me keep my couch in place? Please let me know.
Best answer:
Answer by W. C.
Nothing that I know of.
You’d have a problem with the heating up of whatever you put back there to deflect the heat anyway.
Once heated, it would become a radiator & you’d have the same problem with the couch, only further out.
Might not be as traffic flow convenient, but you just might have to do some rearranging.
Good luck…
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the exterior of your heater would have to reach temps over 450 degrees to ignite any material …as long as the couch isnt touching it you should be okay…kind of a waste of heat with the couch in front of it though…
Yes. Lots of free air space with nothing flammable above it.
Have you considered not using this heater, and using a portable room heater somewhere else instead?
you just need to give it a couple inches so it gets air
Heating the back of your couch is not going to give you good energy efficiency.
The couch will act a bit like a heat sink and will eventually give up some of the heat it absorbs. However it will give much of it back to the wall above the baseboard heater, and much of that heat will escape through the wall unless it’s extremely well insulated, which is rarely the case in apartments.
You really should pull the couch away at least a little bit. The key to getting effective heat distribution here would be to get the air circulating behind the couch. If you can get a medium-sized fan and put it facing down towards the ground behind the couch, this may push air down towards the baseboard heaters, helping the warmed air of the heaters rise and circulate in your room. If you don’t get the air flowing, you’ll just have a very hot area behind the couch (risking fire, as you point out) and a very cool rest of the room.
yes,find your local nasa outlet store in the yellow pages. get a large quantity of the heat shield that is on the shuttle. it will run about a million bucks but it’s worth it.