Baseboard heater choices

[Ronald D Kidd]

My SFH basement is cold. I am doing a live in rehab. There are 2 heat pump heater vents but they do not keep basement warm enough. Should I buy 2 plug-in baseboard heaters or add baseboard heaters wired to circuit breaker box. The plug-in heaters are less expensive.

Thanks in advance.

[Nathan Grabau]

I would go with the hard wired ones. Especially if you live in an area with regular freezes. It would suck to have a future tenant have a friend over that unplugs the heater so they can charge their phone, and have a pipe freeze as a result. Not the most likely situation, but you want to idiot proof rentals as much as possible.