Infra red panel heater gibberish?

He is in a housing association house, so he wont be paying for the fitting, but he will be paying for the electric. It is not a fancy mirrored one either, it just had the explanation.

Its more complicated than that with heating where radiant heat can make you feel warmer when you choose not to run everything nice and warm.

That?s why a decent fire outside works better than nothing,

That was recommended in the days before double glazing to avoid a temperature gradient between the rads and the windows. It's much easier to achieve a uniform temperature nowadays with superior insulation.

It's like the old days of trying to heat a room with a two bar electric heater. It just heats the side of you that is facing the fire.

Heated bedrooms? Looxury!

Whether heat comes from a radiator or is cast onto objects by IR, either way it's then air currents that move it around.

for unheated spaces, yes to an extent.

That was slightly popular decades ago. You'll soon see why it's well & truly fallen out of favour.

NT

I woke up with ice on the inside of the windows a few too many times.

NT

Same here - but I don't remember thinking anything of it. Soft in my old age :-)

All true except the health bit. Infra red heaters are not new, far from it. They are usually used in intermittently occupied buildings/rooms. Eg churches. Tend to leave the feet cold and only heat the thing/side of you they are pointed at.

In a room constantly occupied, probably not too clever.

You have to do some calculations re occupancy/cost of electricity/other heating.

I've woken up with ice on the inside of the double glazed UPVC windows.

And not that long ago either.

Currently 10.4 degC in the bedroom. I don't heat the rest of the house.

Owain

I once woke up to find the water inthe glass beside my bed had ice in it.

I can beat that..... ice in my hot water bottle! OK it wasn't in my bed at the time but on the floor.

You mean with all the pretty fern patterns. Warm up an (old) penny in your hand and press it against the window to make a spy hole. Kids these days!

As long as the Whisky it was put in at the time of retiring to bed hasn?t frozen as well then not too cold then.

GH

You had a spare penny to play around with? You must have been a spoilt brat.

GH

I was only about 10 at the time. I wouldn't have been allowed it then. I'm making up for that now.> GH