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Robert, Sorry to say…your heating man did it the right way. If you look at the support brackets inside the fin tube unit, you will see why it must be run that way. Maybe painting the tube flat black would help hide it.
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Robert, Sorry to say...your heating man did it the right way. If you look at the support brackets inside the fin tube unit, you will see why it must be run that way. Maybe painting the tube flat black would help hide it.
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One unit of my baseboard hydronic heat (fin and tube) was installed with the return copper pipe running atop the fins (it couldn't be run under the floor because the unit is in an entry hall built over open space--no stem wall).
But the copper pipe is visible through the louver at the top of the unit and, I think, interferes with the convection of heat from the fins. I think it should have been installed under the fins, where it would have been out of sight, but the installer insists that it should run on top. I'm don't know how much loss of convection occurs, but the appearance of the naked copper pipe is unsatisfactory, as is the installer's solution: "You'll get used to it."
Should the return have been placed on top of the fins, or below?