I’m just going to take you in to Barley End which is a barn conversion / rental property we’ve recently converted to infrared heating panels. As you come into the room you might not even notice them unless you’re looking. We have 2 x 1000W panels in the kitchen plus several other panels in the bedrooms and hallway. The control panel is here, we largely keep it locked so we can control the system from anywhere in the world using the really useful App.
The heat in here is lovely, the installation was super quick – less than 2 days – to put up 8 panels plus all the thermostats, spur switches and then making good from the decorator. Also, if you’re planning to install these infrared panels on the ceiling and especially if you have access to the loft space which we do then it’s pretty similar as it would be to install spotlights. So it’s a really quick, easy upgrade. The quality of the heat is a huge improvement, rather than the heat sitting up in the top part of the room it’s in your objects and your flooring and your people…. so you don’t have hot and cold spots throughout your room ……the warm air is distributed really evenly across the room. This has been a really quick and easy upgrade and we’re hoping that the lifespan and user friendliness of the system will be a big improvement for us here. So we’re going to take this idea into several of our other rental properties.