How Do You Replace A Baseboard Heater?
Electric baseboard heaters supply heat in rooms where it’s difficult to install ducts from a furnace. They’re more expensive to run than gas heat, but the trade-off is that they’re simpler to install and simpler to replace if they go bad. If your baseboard heater stops working and there’s no indication that the problem is with the circuitry in your house, you can pick up a new heater at your local home improvement store and replace it yourself in less than an hour. Turn off all power to the heater at the house fuse box. Unfasten the existing heater from the wall. Do this by loosening the screws in the brackets that hold it there. These will likely be either at the sides or top of the unit. Remove the old unit. Pull it out from the wall and find where the wiring is connected. It will likely be near one end of the baseboard heater. A metal cable with wiring may run into a hole in the back of the unit, with a metal plate keeping it inside the unit. If so, remove the metal plate by unscrew
