We are just finishing up a job and it has come time to install the baseboards and the baseboard heaters. I normally install all my baseboards and install the baseboard heaters on top of them. My thinking is that if you ever replace them with a different size or change heating systems, you have full in tact baseboards. But several guys on the crew said this was the ‘wrong way’ to do it. They would cut the baseboards around the heaters and mount the heaters directly to the wall. Any advice?
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My house, I cut the baseboard to fit to the edge of the cover. Replacing the baseboard heater seems very unlikely.
"It is what it is."
In new construction, heaters usually go in first, then base up to the endcaps. Most base is lower than most heaters. If you put the base in first, you wind up with a gap between the top of the baseboard heaters and the wall. I've seen heaters installed on top of base, but that's usually reno situations in old homes.
I got into the habit with houses where the mouldings were taller than heater. It just seems cleaner. Also, I have had to switch heaters in the past and found that a newer (or available model) is not exactly the same size. Lots of headaches.
They are righter
any place I have ever seen it left your way for many years, there is an unbelievable amt of crud between top of heat strip and the wall above the baseboard and repainting has gobbed stuff up to th epoint that it was easier to replace the base than to strip it for repainting
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