Designed as an alternative to baseboard radiation and console style cabenet unit heaters, the vertical concept of the Whalen Heat Only unit allows for placement anywhere in a room. Forced warm air flows throughout the space for enhanced room comfort.

Do you want forced air at the floor level?
Try our inverted unit.

Do you need to bring in outside air?
Our Unit will condition the outside air 100% of the time.

How's that for flexibility?
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Vertical Units Vs. Horizontal Baseboard

Whalen Baseboard Floor Space Whalen Heater 12" x 14" 300 CFM delivers 16,000 BTU's taking up 1.16 sf. 16,000 BTU's requires 26' x 3" baseboard taking up 6.5 sf. Piping 1 set of supply & return mains. Vertical risers - balance at 1 point - units on each riser, self-balancing Insulate vertical supply & return mains. Horizontal runs each zone along with horizontal layout in each dwelling, every zone must be balanced Installation Tip Whalen heater into core drilled sleeve - sweat supply and return to unit above - sheet rock to cabinet itself. Plug in t-stat Lay out baseboard, sweat numerous tees and elbows run electrical service to each transformer and t-stat. Install covers, splice pieces and end caps. Paint touch up usually required after installation Electrical (1) 115/10 service to Whalen factory installed J-box - Thermostat factory wired with plugs on cabinet and t-stat Run 115/10 to transformer(s) and t-stat(s) each zone requires low voltage wiring to zone valves Efficiency 140o average temperature delivers 16,000 BTU's 190o average water temperature from 26' baseboard delivers 16,000 BTU's Maintenance Fan motor permanently lubricated - filter change twice a year Zone valve replacement repeat failures

The Whalen Advantage
• Less floor space required
• Eliminate zone valves, transformers
• Unit mounted plug-in t-stat factory wiring
• Higher BTU out put with lower water temperatures
• Horizontal piping eliminated
• Installation time slashed
• Less maintenance - filter change twice a year, motors permanently lubricated, no zone valve replacement headaches
• No field wiring of transformers, zone valves, t-stats
• No paint touch up after installation
• Quick venting of system