Electric baseboards suitable for damp locations?

[Tom Raymond]

1946 Colonial with a c1980 addition. This is a 3' electric baseboard heater stuffed between a shower and a toilet.

This can't be kosher, can it?

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[John Kogel]

We have a lot of electric heat here. It is not a serious hazard but they could downsize that heater to a 500 or 750 Watt for a bathroom.

A lot of bathrooms have electric baseboard heat and people don't get shocked or burned.

Something else I see here is corrosion on the top of the BB heater from dudes missing the toilet bowl. [:-yuck]

[kurt]

I asked about this some years ago. Hansen and Katen said its ok. Haven't heard different since.

[Jim Katen]

. . . Something else I see here is corrosion on the top of the BB heater from dudes missing the toilet bowl. [:-yuck]

I see that every time there's a baseboard heater near a toilet, but I don't think that it's necessarily from missing the bowl. Plain old splatter will do it. Even without splatter, a lot of toilets create a mist when they're flushed. . .

[John Dirks Jr]

Here's one I found not long ago. You really want to keep up on the plumbing in this case.

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[Jim Baird]

...surely the product listing includes the location...

[Tom Raymond]

Where do I get the listing? These are 35 years old.

[Jim Katen]

Where do I get the listing? These are 35 years old.

Looks like Cadet.

http://www.homedepot.com/catalog/pdfIma ... b17916.pdf