Central heating or room by room? Energy efficient heating.

Whether your home is a one bedroom flat or a large country house we can heat it with infrared heating panels. The principles are the same, we need to know the measurements of each room and the natural warmth of the home and some ideas of how you use your home, whether you are at home all day or out at work, that helps us advise you on the controlling of the heating and the best ways to zone areas for programming. Traditional central heating programmers have just one setting for the whole house but with infrared you can be far more flexible and energy efficient.

This week we have spoken to two customers with lovely well insulated and modern flats looking for an energy efficient heating system, for the first customer two large panels will be sufficient, one in the open plan kitchen/ living area and one in the bedroom simply run from timer switches on the plug sockets. Simple room by room heating.

But for the second customer, with a busy lifestyle and a flat with small corridors and a separate kitchen we suggested having smaller panels in each small room as this will ensure all round warmth. Dividing the flat into heating zones is far more energy efficient, for example, the bathroom and living room should be fitted to one programmer in a zone that needs to be kept warm for more hours of the day than say the bedrooms which can be fitted to a separate programmer, by fully utilising the thermostatic programmer we can provide gentle background warmth to one area without wasting energy on other areas that are not in use.

Our panels only use 350 watts, which is a very low amount of energy but more than sufficient to gently warm the small rooms of this flat and will provide comfortable warm much faster than by only having heating on in the living room and bedroom.

The running cost to heat the whole flat with infrared heating will be low as the total amount of electrical wattage used is low, and by using thermostatic programmers the energy savings will be even greater. Plus, there will be no cold draughts from unheated rooms!

So, central heating done room by room, the energy efficient way!