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Reasons to heat your home using infrared fabric radiant heat
- westurner 3y agoFrom https://theconversation.com/five-reasons-to-heat-your-home-using-infrared-fabric-222316 https://theconversation.com/five-reasons-to-heat-your-home-u... : > 2. Simple to install > Infrared fabric looks like a roll of slightly stiff wallpaper. It’s essentially a graphene sandwich, a thin film of carbon between two sheets of paper that conducts low voltage electricity and emits infrared heat, like the sun, but without the light or harmful ultraviolet. > A room’s ceiling area emits the right amount of heat for a room, making installation very simple in any property, irrespective of its construction, shape or size. It’s little more than a wallpapering job with a click together wiring connection. [...] > 3. Affordable heat > Infrared fabric is affordable to install and maintain due to its simplicity with a total cost of around £100 per sq metre for a full system. And it’s quite indestructible – it can have holes cut out of it and can get wet in floods without any danger to occupants or damage to the material. It’s also affordable to run.
- dave4420 3y agoHorses for courses. My house has around 100sqft, so I’d be looking at about £10k for this. At which point, why not instead get a heat pump system that can also provide cooling? I can see that infrared fabric would be a better trade off for flats or studio apartments though.