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    Additional bathroom heating

    Does anybody have experience of additional heaters heating systems for bathroom installation? The only place in the whole unit where it's cold. Can't figure out the reason.

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    We have a small, portable ceramic heater with a digital thermostat. We use it in the bathroom for showers when it's cold and for supplemental heat elsewhere when needed. If it's below freezing outside, make sure that whatever you use doesn't keep the main furnace from cycling - that's what keeps your water utilities in the basement from freezing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Second Chance View Post
    We have a small, portable ceramic heater with a digital thermostat. We use it in the bathroom for showers when it's cold and for supplemental heat elsewhere when needed. If it's below freezing outside, make sure that whatever you use doesn't keep the main furnace from cycling - that's what keeps your water utilities in the basement from freezing.

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    I take care of that. I worked in hydraulic fracturing in Alberta, so I know everything about keeping the pipelines from freezing . A heater is the first thing I thought about, but that' not the solution from my point of view, I thought also about ceiling fans like broans(saw them when was looking for a heater https://houseweather.org/best-bathroom-heater/) not to take the heater to the shower every time

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    Quote Originally Posted by ZThomas View Post
    Does anybody have experience of additional heaters heating systems for bathroom installation? The only place in the whole unit where it's cold. Can't figure out the reason.
    What rig do you have? Have you checked how much air flow you're getting from the heater vent in the bathroom?

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    First try to locate the hose from the furnace to the bathroom and make sure that any fittings are tight and that there is not a kink or crimp in the hose. If not, pick a few outlets with the biggest air flow and totally obstruct them and see if the flow to the bathroom improves. If it doesn't you have an obstruction issue and if it does, consider restricting a few outlets a bit and see if that works.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ZThomas View Post
    Does anybody have experience of additional heaters heating systems for bathroom installation? The only place in the whole unit where it's cold. Can't figure out the reason.
    Ironically, the complaint that appears more often is too MUCH heat from the bathroom register! Someone has complained recently about it destroying seals in the toilet!

    The advice that @ThePowells is the best first step; duct installation in these trailers is not always precision work. In the unlikely event that you still can't get enough heat in the bathroom, then as @Second Chance suggested one can buy a decent safety-rated ceramic heater for $30 or less (we got one at Ace Hardware) that will heat up the bathroom right quick.

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    We haven’t actually followed the duct from the furnace to the bathroom, but we have very little airflow and what does come out isn’t as warm as the other vents. We chalked it up to- that’s the longest run. Besides, if the airflow was hotter, it would be hitting our toilet as well. Bad design. We just pull out a ceramic heater and set it on the countertop when we want to take a shower in cooler weather.
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