Dec 06
Is there anything to put over an Electric Baseboard heater to prevent a fire?
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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.
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.
4 Responses to “Is there anything to put over an Electric Baseboard heater to prevent a fire?”
December 6th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
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…
December 7th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
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…
December 10th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
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?
December 11th, 2008 at 12:24 am
you just need to give it a couple inches so it gets air