Heating that warms your floors

The heated ceiling: comfort arriving from above

Cold feet in winter?

The answer is not beneath your feet, it is above your head.

Counter-intuitive, certainly.

The puzzle of heat that rises

It is commonly said that heat always rises.

And yet, in our homes, it is usually the upper floor that ends up too warm.

Odd, is it not?

What rises is warm air, not heat itself.

That distinction is where conventional heating systems mislead us.

By heating the air, they create the overheating upstairs.

The sun as the model

The sun gives us the answer.

In summer, with the air at 40 °C, sand can reach 80 °C.

Twice the temperature, from the same source.

The sun heats matter roughly twice as effectively as it heats air.

It uses infrared light, which warms the skin directly without overheating the air.

What if the same thing could be done indoors?

The heated ceiling, and what it changes

A heated ceiling is the answer to that question.

It behaves like the sun, emitting far infrared radiation.

That radiation warms objects and people directly, without spending energy on heating the air.

The result?

A floor that stays warm, and no overheating upstairs.

Comfort that holds, with a lower bill behind it.

The demonstration

Walk first into a room with no heated ceiling.

The floor is cold and the air is unevenly distributed.

Now move to the next room.

In this one, fitted with a heated ceiling, it feels rather like being on a beach.

The floor is warm, much as sand is warm under the sun.

The infrared light from the heating films and the reflective insulation radiates throughout the room.

Your feet are warm, and you stop noticing the heating altogether.

In conclusion

A heated ceiling is not a passing fashion.

It is a genuinely different way of heating a room.

It gives even comfort, lower energy use, and an answer to overheating on the upper floor.

So: ready to look up for your warmth?