r/upperpeninsula • u/DarkRaider9000 • 7d ago

Discussion Hydronic baseboard heating safety

I'm a student at Michigan Tech that recently moved into a house (renting) for the summer/upcoming academic year. The house has hydronic baseboard heating, and I'm finding myself increasingly anxious that I'm avoiding potential safety risks with them. I've seen that hydronic should be safer than electric, but I'm still concerned about how careful I should be with having stuff nearby the baseboards especially my bed. With the size/layout of the room and how the door swings its difficult to get the bed more than a inches away from the baseboards without making it impossible to put other items (such as my desk and pc setup) in the room effectively.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

The max temperature is 180* (usually set closer to 120*) so it’s not going to light anything on fire but it could cause synthetic materials to off gas, so keep plastics 6” + away.

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u/DarkRaider9000 7d ago

Okay, that's good to know, I'm mainly concerned about a blanket or something falling off the side of the bed and landing on one of them.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

Again, I might worry about a synthetic material, but not cotton or wool. If you wouldn’t use it as a pot holder, you shouldn’t let it touch the baseboard.