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Posted by Michael Bulatovich on November 25, 2007, 4:33 pm
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>> >> I'm at my mother's house and she is thinking of moving her washer/
>> >> dryer to a semi-heated porch off of her kitchen. Great idea with only
>> >> a few problems. The biggest one is that is sometimes get below
>> >> freezing in there and she doesn't want to heat it all winter.
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>> >> I was thinking I could lift up the rug and put down some tile with
>> >> embedded, electric, radiant heat just under the washer to keep it from
>> >> freezing. But I was wondering if anyone has ever seen any pre-fab
>> >> anything that I could put down there and accomplish the same thing --
>> >> you know, sort of a heating pad.
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>> > Probably not the best way to heat the space. Having a heavy item,
>> > with a distinct possibility of some water on the ground, sitting on an
>> > electric mat is sketchy at best. If you could close off the area
>> > immediately around the machines - create a tent-like arrangement - you
>> > could heat the interior with a light bulb.
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>> Why not just heat the space?
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> I would imagine that it has something to do with money and not wanting
> to continuously heat a space that is used only a couple of times a
> week. That's why I was suggesting reducing the volume to be heated to
> the point that it could be heated very cheaply and simply.
Might be simpler to move something not temperature sensitive, instead of
plumbing, then. (He said it's "semi-heated" already.)
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