Heat in a bedroom

[ROBERT JONES]

100 year old house with GFHW baseboard heat - no baseboard in 1 of the 3 bedrooms - is it a MPR to have a heat source ? The 50 degree thing that I am reading looks more for bathrooms and rooms with plumbing -

Thanks!

 

[Rrebera]

All "habitable" rooms must have a source of heating. Although the heating equipment is not required to be located in the room, each room has to receive sufficient heat. If the primary heating unit cannot be extended into a room, a properly wired baseboard unit, powered by electricity and controlled by a thermostat, is accepted under the guidelines.

Adequate heat is defined as a minimum of 50 degrees Fahrenheit in areas used for living and where plumbing systems are located. The occupants must be able to control the main heating by thermostat. Electric heat systems must have adequate electric service as require by local codes. Floor heaters, wall heaters, solar systems and wood stoves are allowed.

 

[NC Appraising]

I grew up in a small ranch home and the only heat source was a wall furnace (permanently attached, natural gas) that was located in the hall. Of course the hall was always hot, and you had to leave all the doors open, but it did it's job, and warmed the home well.

 

[PropertyEconomics]

HEAT IN A BEDROOM ... is this topic even allowed to be discussed on the Forum? :laugh:

 

[ROBERT JONES]

Do any of the helpful posters have the chapter and page of the 4150.2, apendix, or other guidebook for me? I want to have something in my file.

Thanks again

 

[CANative]

Minimum requirements for existing 1-4 unit properties can be found in HUD Handbook 4905.1.

3) Heating adequate for healthful and comfortable
living conditions. The Field Office may determine
that climatic conditions are such that mechanical
heating is not required.

Dwellings with wood burning stoves or solar
systems used as a primary heat source must have
permanently installed conventional heating systems
that maintain at least 50 degrees fahrenheit in
areas containing plumbing systems.

If it gets below 50 degrees in a bedroom I'd say it's not comfortable (judging by the temperature in my unheated bedroom last night.)

 

[Mountain Man]

I grew up in a small ranch home and the only heat source was a wall furnace (permanently attached, natural gas) that was located in the hall. Of course the hall was always hot, and you had to leave all the doors open, but it did it's job, and warmed the home well.

The little house we lived in when I was a wee 4 or 5 year old had a floor furnace, and that single furnaced heated the whole 900SF house very well. However, the creaking and groaning it made when it kick on, as well as the the noise it made when you walked over it, had me convinced a monster lived in our basement. I never walked over the grate... I'd shuffle hugging the wall so as to not wake the monster.

 

[CANative]

My 2,000 sf house (130 years old) had a floor furnace in the hall. One of my grandkids (the oldest) was horsing around and rolled over the grate leaving what he calls a "waffle scar." I removed that heater a couple of weeks later. Now the house is heated with a pellet stove in the living room. Another grandkid touched tje glass doors and got burned so we put a very heavy, freee standing screen around it. A third gradkid (one of the twins when they were about five backed into a wood stove in his parents house after a bath and ... well he got a burn on his butt.

My pellet stove keeps the living room, hall and front bath and bedroom warm enough but the kitchen and two bedroom farthest away stay pretty cool in the winter (it's been in the upper 30's at night the last few days).

 

[Mike Garrett RAA]

Have appraised houses with a gravity furnace. There were vents in the ceiling on the main level so the heat could rise to the upper level bedrooms.

It's quite common today to see an electric baseboard heater in some of the older homes with a similiar heating situations. 50 degrees certainly would not be adequate...IN MY MARKET.