A perfect solution for adding warmth to a home during a construction or expansion project is to use radiant ceramic flat panel electric infrared heaters. They are cost effective, efficient, eco-friendly, and a primary heat source that absorbs heat comfortably. They even heat the floor! This solution is applicable whether you are building an addition to a home, adding a three-season glass enclosure or patio enclosure, remodeling a home, or renovating an older home. These units are the perfect solution for homes that have that one room that never gets warm enough.
So the question is how does this apply to the industry of building and renovating older homes, homes with additions under construction, or building green homes? The use of electric radiant infrared flat ceramic panels offers a double benefit. The first is to add heat to additions being built without using new tin and without worrying that the current furnace is powerful enough to handle the additional square footage. The second is to add a more effective and efficient primary heat source to the house or outbuilding. Particularly a heat source that uses green technology that operates with savings of up to 50% over the cost of heating the same space with natural gas.
Historically, electric heating has been less expensive than natural gas or oil heating. This is because using 1000 watts of electricity costs between 10 and 12 cents per hour to run. But more than that, heating with electric infrared technology reduces the recovery time of heating a room. This means that the heating unit does not have to run as often to keep the room warm or to reheat the room after opening a door or window.
A brief explanation and review of the efficiency and cost savings of infrared radiant heating follows in the next two paragraphs, then I will explain the benefit of ceramic flat panel infrared radiant heaters in the old house construction and renovation industry. , houses with additions under construction. , adding warmth to patio enclosures or building green houses.
The reason why electric radiant infrared flat panel heaters are efficient and cost effective to operate can be explained in this way; forced hot air systems only blow hot air into the room. The room must be filled with enough warm air for a person to feel warm. But at that point the only thing that is hot is the air, but hot air rises. There is normally a difference in temperature between the ceiling air and the floor air. Space at floor level and a few inches above the floor is never warm and is often drafty. Filling a room with warm air takes time, and the air warms up before it warms the person. The room cools down quickly due to cold air infiltration and takes longer to recover. But the biggest disadvantage is that the forced air system must run longer and work harder to heat the air in the room and then reheat the room, costing the consumer more energy dollars.
In contrast, infrared radiation heating first heats people and objects using long-wave electromagnetic energy technology. Once people and objects get hot, they release the heat into the air which then warms the ambient air. Even if a door is opened letting a blast of cool air into the room, radiant heating has a faster recovery time because all objects in the room heat up and release that heat back into the room. Although the unit runs continuously until the thermostat turns it off, it works at an economical price. And that cost is only incurred when the unit is running, whereas a gas system is always flashing a pilot light and trying to overcome drafty cold air infiltration.
Electric radiant infrared flat ceramic panels are manufactured by Radiant Electric Heat (REH) in Wisconsin. These units are made in the USA. That’s important to many consumers and I’m happy to point that out. The REH brand is called CeramiCircuit™.
The CeramiCircuit™ brand is constructed of ceramic-coated 18-gauge steel plates with an energizing circuit on the inside face of the heating element. The heater body is 20 gauge galvanized steel construction with perimeter vents. The unit is made with an approximately 135 cubic inch junction box that runs the width of the heater at the rear of the heater body. Three standard 7/8″ knockouts located left, right, and center are built into the rear surface of the junction box to allow power input. The actual power connections to the element and heater ground are located on the far left of the junction box Heater elements have a watt density of approximately 2.5 – 3.0 watts/sq. inch of emissive surface area volts, 208 volts, 240 volt or 277 volt REH also manufactures CeramiCircuit ™ brand units in the following configurations: wall mounts, toe kicks, large portable units (wheeled or wall mounted) and small under desk heaters found at http:// www.radiantheatusaonline.com/shop/category.aspx?catid=3.The products on this page each have a link to the product brochure for more information.Some of the details an Details of the unit’s construction come from those brochures.
During new and/or green construction, building an addition, any type of three-season patio or room enclosure, or just a cold, drafty room, the CeramiCircuit™ brand of electric radiant infrared heating units Flat ceramic offers perfect and efficient primary heat. . They mount on two brackets that install like hanging a picture frame, come with a lead wire for wiring behind the wall for a clean finished look, and units can be zoned or operated with individual thermostats.
Instead of replacing or using a weak furnace or installing additional ductwork, consider flat panel heating technology; the heat of the sun in a box. Emission-free, forced air-free, combustion-free, hypoallergenic, maintenance-free, strong and durable, made in the USA and with lower operating costs than other heating systems, the CeramiCircuit™ line is custom built for residential use.
