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Tester101
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Some different ideas:

  • removeRemove the baseboard water heater and replace with electric, thereby creating it's own zone. Set temp to 50 or some other low number--just enough to keep pipes from freezing -- as Tester101 points out, ifIf the only pipes in this room were for the radiator, you wouldn't even need to set the heat, as there are no more pipes to worry about.

  • addAdd insulation to the mudroom

  • keepKeep mudroom door open when using wood heater

  • spliceSplice your pipes and add the mudroom baseboard to one of the other circuits that will be running even when wood stove is on (basement, likely).

Some different ideas:

  • remove the baseboard water heater and replace with electric, thereby creating it's own zone. Set temp to 50 or some other low number--just enough to keep pipes from freezing -- as Tester101 points out, if the only pipes in this room were for the radiator, you wouldn't even need to set the heat as there are no more pipes to worry about.

  • add insulation to the mudroom

  • keep mudroom door open when using wood heater

  • splice your pipes and add the mudroom baseboard to one of the other circuits that will be running even when wood stove is on (basement, likely).

Some different ideas:

  • Remove the baseboard water heater and replace with electric, thereby creating it's own zone. If the only pipes in this room were for the radiator, you wouldn't even need to set the heat, as there are no more pipes to worry about.

  • Add insulation to the mudroom

  • Keep mudroom door open when using wood heater

  • Splice your pipes and add the mudroom baseboard to one of the other circuits that will be running even when wood stove is on (basement, likely).

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DA01
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Some different ideas:

  • remove the baseboard water heater and replace with electric, thereby creating it's own zone. Set temp to 50 or some other low numberSet temp to 50 or some other low number--just enough to keep pipes from freezing --just enough as Tester101 points out, if the only pipes in this room were for the radiator, you wouldn't even need to keepset the heat as there are no more pipes from freezingto worry about.

  • add insulation to the mudroom

  • keep mudroom door open when using wood heater

  • splice your pipes and add the mudroom baseboard to one of the other circuits that will be running even when wood stove is on (basement, likely).

Some different ideas:

  • remove the baseboard water heater and replace with electric, thereby creating it's own zone. Set temp to 50 or some other low number--just enough to keep pipes from freezing

  • add insulation to the mudroom

  • keep mudroom door open when using wood heater

  • splice your pipes and add the mudroom baseboard to one of the other circuits that will be running even when wood stove is on (basement, likely).

Some different ideas:

  • remove the baseboard water heater and replace with electric, thereby creating it's own zone. Set temp to 50 or some other low number--just enough to keep pipes from freezing -- as Tester101 points out, if the only pipes in this room were for the radiator, you wouldn't even need to set the heat as there are no more pipes to worry about.

  • add insulation to the mudroom

  • keep mudroom door open when using wood heater

  • splice your pipes and add the mudroom baseboard to one of the other circuits that will be running even when wood stove is on (basement, likely).

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DA01
DA01
  • 24.5k
  • 29
  • 80
  • 151

Some different ideas:

  • remove the baseboard water heater and replace with electric, thereby creating it's own zone. Set temp to 50 or some other low number--just enough to keep pipes from freezing

  • add insulation to the mudroom

  • keep mudroom door open when using wood heater

  • splice your pipes and add the mudroom baseboard to one of the other circuits that will be running even when wood stove is on (basement, likely).