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Why use a Heat Cover on your Base Board?

What are the advantages to installing NeatHeat versus cleaning your base board? Why use a heat cover on your base board?

why use a heat cover on your base boardOwning a home is the biggest but best responsibility we get, because while one has to spend a lot of time maintaining their home it’s great to have your own place for your family to grow. The responsibilities homeowners face include tasks like cooking, cleaning, and landscaping, but this can also extend to some of the more complicated home maintenance work.

When it comes to these more complex tasks, you always have two options: do the work yourself (or with a friend/family member), or hire someone to do the work. There are pros and cons to both of these, because either way you’re either spending time or money to get the work done.

The key to home renovation is knowing your own limits as far as work: if you’re a plumber, you probably don’t need to call a plumber anytime there’s a problem with the sink or toilet. But if you need to get a new rug installed in the living room and you’ve never done the work, odds are you’re going to hire a professional to get the job done.

The goal is the best looking, longest lasting renovation you can pull off, so you don’t have to do the work again for quite a while. No homeowner wants to do a subpar job painting their home, because then they’ll just have to repaint it again within a short period of time.

The Troubles with Hot Water Base Board Heating

This is the problem with hot water base board: no matter how good a job you done cleaning off all the rust and getting rid of the dents and scratches, it’s still going to look bland, and you’re still going to have to redo it within a few months.

Metal base board surrounding the heating element may be good in the sense of conducting heat, but it’s bad because not only does that guarantee quick oxidation, but it also guarantees easy damage if something bumps or hits it. Considering metal base board is located on the floors by the walls, odds are good that someone will accidentally kick the base board or bump into it.

You can try to do the renovation of the base board yourself or hire a gas fitter to do it, but the end result will most likely be the same: a lot of time spent on a renovation that doesn’t end up being worth your time or money. So how do you renovate your base board?

Why use a Heat Cover on your Base Board?

The secret to fixing your base board is to not do anything at all to your base board. Instead, install a cover right over your base board, and your problems will go away.

So why use a heat cover on your base board? Not only does a cover mean easier installation/removal, but the cover can be designed in such a way that it’s easy to clean, paint, and doesn’t take damage like rust, dents, scratches, and other forms of damage that you deal with when it comes to base board.

Homeowners use NeatHeat’s covers because they’re made of a composite polymer, so they don’t take any damage in the form of rust, dents, melting, offsetting gas, yellowing, or fading in color over time. NeatHeat’s covers snap right on over your base board, even if parts are damaged or missing.

Plus, cleaning the covers is easy; all you need is household cleaning products and you can take any filth off in seconds. To learn more about why use a heat cover on your base board, click here.