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Pipes generally don't go in your living spaces, they might heat your basement but that's not really where you want the heat.

• noonespecial 18y ago
  Nearly all heat that starts in your basement ends up in your house. It has nowhere else to go. The copper pipes in our basement ran directly beneath the floor of the bedroom. A fine warm strip would develop whenever someone took a shower. By the time it got to the exit point in the house, the pipe was barely warm enough to notice. That is not negligible heat transfer considering its "free".
  • pingswept 18y ago
    The heat in your basement does actually have somewhere else to go. Typically, uninsulated basement walls and floor are near the temperature of the surrounding earth, which ranges between 45-55 F depending on how far down you are on the wall and your latitude. Heat conduction between basement air and those cold surfaces is not negligible on the scale of home heating.