oil hot water baseboard heating (Home Depot, convert, install, dining room)

[bev2337]

I am trying to find someone in or around the Winston Salem, NC area that does the oil hot water baseboard heating. I have bought an older house that has Slant Fin radiator heating and I need new registors for some rooms.
Thanks

[M3 Mitch]

I think you need to look for some sort of old-house restoration supply company. What you are talking about is an oil-fired hot water system with baseboard registers, right?

[Bergenite]

Slant Fin is a very common baseboard radiator. Most heating companies could it, and plumbers could also install baseboards.

[sunsprit]

Do a google search for a Slant-Fin dealer/installer in your area under Hydronic Heating systems or heating contractor.

Slant-Fin is still in business, although you can replace their BB radiators with other brands as needed in your house. There will be cosmetic differences to the covers, but if you don't look too closely in a given room, it shouldn't be a real big deal.

I had to add some BB radiators in our old farm house to heat areas that hadn't been heated when the house was converted to HWBB heat some time ago, and you really don't notice that the bathroom has a different radiator than the living room than the dining room ....

You may also want to look into a newer boiler if yours is older than 10-15 years old. The efficiency of the latest stuff is much better than the old 70%, and they have multi-levels of firing and pulsed burners now. Friends have upgraded and the exhaust stack is now a 4" diameter piece of plastic pipe that runs cool instead of the old steel stack that ran very hot and drew a lot of air from inside the house. Obviously, not an inexpensive change over, but at todays fuel costs the recovery cycle of the expense can be just a couple of years in the fuel savings.

[nhmaster]

Home Depot sells Slant Fin 15. You don't have to keep all Slant Fin Baseboards though.