Infrared Heating for Social Housing: Healthier, More Efficient Homes
A Practical Route to Healthier, More Efficient Homes
Social housing providers across the UK are under increasing pressure to deliver warm, safe, and affordable homes while also meeting strict regulatory, environmental, and cost challenges. With rising attention on damp and mould, the introduction of Awaab’s Law, ongoing fuel poverty concerns, and net zero targets, heating systems are now a crucial part of the conversation. Infrared heating is a practical, readily available option for addressing these challenges.
Reducing Damp and Mould Risk in Housing Stock
Damp and mould remain one of the most urgent issues in social housing, especially with increased regulatory focus under Awaab’s Law. Conventional convection heating warms air, but often leaves walls and surfaces cooler. When warm, moist air meets these cold surfaces, condensation can form creating ideal conditions where mould develops.
Infrared heating helps address this problem by warming surfaces directly, reducing condensation risk and supporting healthier indoor environments for tenants.
Improving Energy Efficiency and Reducing Tenant Energy Costs
As infrared heating warms people, walls, floors, and objects directly, this means comfort can often be achieved at lower air temperatures, helping reduce energy use.
For housing providers, this can support:
- lower overall energy demand in electrically heated homes;
- improved affordability for tenants;
- better alignment with net zero strategies.
Smart controls also play a key role. Herschel’s new, patent-protected InfraSense(R) technology, alongside its highly efficient and sustainable Comfort panel heaters, provides real-time monitoring and allows residents to set budgets and track usage, giving them greater control over heating costs and consumption.
Supporting Net Zero and Retrofit Goals
Decarbonising heat is a core part of the UK’s net zero pathway. In retrofit programmes, infrared systems offer social landlords a practical, scaleable route to decarbonisation that is quick to install with minimal disruption.
Discover More on Infrared Heating for the Social Housing Sector
At Herschel Infrared, we are working closely with the social housing sector to demonstrate how infrared heating systems can support decarbonisation, reduce fuel poverty, and improve living conditions. Our team of specialists, including Steve Walters our National Housing Business Development Manager, will be happy to explain the full benefits of infrared heating. Infrared heating systems are central to the social housing conversation moving forward, maximising tenant wellbeing and comfort alongside operational efficiency, and progress towards net zero targets.
Find out more on our infrared heating systems for social heating here, or contact our team for advice or to receive a copy of our social housing brochure. Herschel also offers electric hot water systems and battery storage, creating fully electric homes fit for the future.
