How Do You Remove A Baseboard Heater?
Depending on where you live and the cost of electricity in the area, it may not be cost-effective to heat your home with baseboard heat. A baseboard heater can also compromise your home design efforts and make bookshelf installation or furniture arrangement a nightmare. If you no longer want to have a baseboard heater in a given room, here is how you can safely and effectively remove it. Turn the baseboard heater circuit off before you begin to disassemble the unit. Most electric heaters are fed by a two-pole breaker, so look for that type in your panel box when searching for the right breaker. If in your tests you had the heater on, allow it to cool completely before beginning. Look to the far left or far right of the baseboard heater and you should see a section that is the junction box for the heater’s connection. Locate the screw that keeps it closed and remove it. Use your voltage tester to check for voltage before you touch anything inside. A touch-type voltage tester will allow
