Cob Hot water pipes in cob walls?

[Speireag Alden]

Sgrìobh John Straube:

> On Friday, December 18, 1998 4:10 AM, Norbert Senf [SMTP:mheat at mha-net.org]
> wrote:
> There are several, if not many, slim-line (1-1/4" thick) baseboard type hot
> water heaters.  These have a lot of advantages, but I am not sure if they

    One thought occurred to me as I read this discussion.  If you're 
building with cob, and you have a 24-inch base to the wall, it would be 
trivial to leave, or carve out, an indentation in which you could install 
such a slim baseboard heater.  The heater would be flush with the wall, and 
the air rising off of it would warm the wall.

    Baseboard heaters always annoy me because they stick out.  It'd be nice 
to be able to put them back into the wall.

    However, you still lose the floor as a comfortable radiating surface, 
and you still have proportionally greater heat loss to the outside, since 
you're heating the wall.

    On straw bale walls you could probably do the same thing, with an 
impermeable layer between the baseboard and a thin interior layer of 
stucco.  Leaks would be to the inside and would not damage the straw, but 
you would warm the wall as before, and you might even alleviate high 
humidity in that problem bottom wall area, at least during the heating 
season, by putting a little heat into the bottom of the wall.

-Speireag.
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