Hanging panels - landscape or portrait?

I was asked by a customer earlier this week whether our infrared panels need to be hung landscape, or could they actually be hung portrait.

To be honest most of our sales pictures nearly always show them being hung landscape, but there is no reason why they can't be hung the other way.

As can be seen in the above picture sent in by another customer, they do fit neatly when hung portrait!

Would you like to know more about infrared heating, then please check out our website www.multiheat-energysystems.co.uk for plenty of information!

Infrared panels with feet make a great portable heater!

Infrared heating panels are best positioned high on a wall or even in the ceiling to get best use out of them, but by adding a set of feet you can also turn them into very useful portable heaters.

That way you can have the panel beside your favourite chair, or positioned in that cold spot in a room that you can never get warm.

We have a customer who uses their panel in the utility room, it's also where he has his office, and in the cooler months the room can get very cold. The 350w panel, on feet, positioned next to his chair is enough heat to keep him nice and warm.

350w is a lot less power than using a 1-2Kw fan heater that many people use to do the same thing!

Infrared heaters for heating your pets!

Actually, infrared heating is a good way to keep your pets warm, although you probably do not need as much power, as most animals don't like to be too warm for too long.

Mind you our dogs love to lie directly in front of the wood burner in our living room!

The infrared gives off a nice gentle heat, unlike the wood burner, and will provide heat in utility rooms, outside runs, shed hotels (oh yes, we have had one of our infrared heating panels installed in an outside shed where guinea pigs, mice, rats as well as rabbits all live whilst their owners go away on holiday).

If you don't already know, we breed our own pygmy goats and our infrared panels are good at providing an extra bit of warmth for new born kids.

This is mum to be Breeze (due in February).

So, if you do need a bit of extra heat for your pets a small 300w infrared heating panel situated above their bed will be ideal.

Check out our website www.multiheat-infrared-heating.co.uk to find out more.

Infrared heating panels are nothing much to look at!

Our infrared panels aren't anything to look at really.

A functional design, flat (just 25mm deep) and rectangular (here we can see a 600mm * 900mm and a 600mm * 1200mm). The smaller panel uses just 600w of power and the larger panel just 850w of power.

Designed to be fitted on the wall or the ceiling (ceiling will give maximum effect) and hard wired into a controller (timer and/or thermostat) or a fused spur.

Check out our website for more information - www.multiheat-infrared-heating.co.uk.

Follow us on Twitter - @infraredheating - why not?

Or even why?

As a company, an internet based company, we need to get our name in front of as many people as we possibly can.  We do not have a traditional shop front, our website is our shopfront, and we need to drive traffic direct to our website so that they can look at our products and see what we offer.

Our website, we like to think, answers many questions that customers have, but we are available on the telephone to answer more or specific questions to resolve specific issues.

To drive traffic to our website we use social media, I think there is a general census that suggests that Google+ is great for SEO, our blogs here on Blogger and  posted on Google+ all seem to do well when searching for infrared heating using search engines.

FaceBook is a bit trying at the moment, we have plenty of Likes but very few people get to see our posts without us spending money on getting the posts in front of them, still we plod away.

We are on LinkedIn, we are members of a few groups and interact directly where ever possible, we post our more interesting blogs over there too.

And then, Twitter, we use Twitter to interact with people, there we can talk business, we can talk social, we can just watch, we can post far easier the tittle tattle of our day. Somedays we don't say anything, some days we only say good morning, some days we post our blogs and some days we tell people a lot of interesting facts about us and our products - infrared panel heaters - so if you are on Twitter, why not follow us, it would be nice to interact.

It seems strange but we do export our infrared heating panels!

We had an enquiry today asking if we would ship to Norway, well of course we do!

Our panels, as are most European electrical items are designed to work off 230 volts plus or minus 10%. This allows them to work in both the UK using 240 volts and also in Europe where they use 220 volts.

Nowadays, shipping is also not that expensive, and relatively quick too.

We can ship next day to UK destinations, and within 2-3 days to most European destinations.

So, if you are not UK based, we can still help!

Check out our website www.multiheat-infrared-heating.co.uk

Do you have electric heating - then zone your house!

Most central heating systems are just that - central heating.

They have a central control unit that will work on a timer and thermostat, and at the allotted time it will turn your heating system and warm your house to the temperature as stated on the thermostat. We can add additional control to each room by adding a thermostatic valve, but these are normally changed manually when wanting a room to be either warmer or cooler than the central thermostat.

If you turn the valve up and forget to turn it back down again, then the central heating system, when it next comes on, will warm that room up to its new setting. Quite a cumbersome way to control the heat in your home.

With electric heating there is no need to have a central control system, you can have a timer / thermostat on each electric heater, and therefore in each room/zone, or you can have 2 simple zones, one upstairs one downstairs, or 3 zones, or 4 and each zone can be set to come on at the time most suitable to that zone.

As an example, if you never visit your living room in the morning, then why heat it? You can set the living room to come on early in the evening and to keep the room warm until you go to bed, but in the morning the room stays cold, unlike the centrally heated home where that room will be heated in the morning regardless of the fact that you never go in there.

Are these controllers expensive - not really, you can find them available for £30+ each.

We have a few controllers on our website that will give you some idea of how each zone can be controlled - you find them here CONTROLLERS! Of course, if you have any questions you can contact us via our website contact page!

Fixing an infrared panel to the wall!

All of our infrared heating panels come with fixing kits!

The back of each panel looks like the picture above (this one is a 60cm * 60cm panel).

Inside the box is a template for ease of determining where the holes go on the wall or ceiling!

The fixings provided assume that the panel will be fixed to brick or concrete, so if you are fixing to plasterboard, or a hollow wall, or some other surface then you MUST ensure that you buy the appropriate fixings. These will be available from most reputable DIY stores.

Drill the holes, tap in the fixings, screw into the fixing the screw as supplied or as recommended by the fixing type chosen by you, ensuring that the spacers as supplied are fixed (these ensure that there is a slight gap behind the panel to allow for air circulation) to the panel.

The four crosses on the back of the panel should be presented to the four screws and slid sideways by a few millimeters to fix to the wall or ceiling!

To find out more please check out our website www.multiheat-infrared-heating.co.uk

Thank you!

350w panel with free feet & a UK plug!

Small standing infrared heater with feet

350 watt heating panel with feet and UK plug fitted.

Ideal for standing alongside your favourite armchair or office desk for additional warmth when the central heating is off or not quite powerful enough.

This heating panel can warm a small room of around 5 square metres very effectively and efficiently.
This small standing infrared heater with feet will cost around 5 pence per hour to run.

Comparison – 1KW electric portable heater costing £40 in use for 5 hours a day for 200 days a year will have an annual running cost of £130 per year. This 350 watt heating panel costing £224.98 in use for 5 hours a day for 200 days will have a running cost of just £50 per year. After two years they will have cost almost the same, but this small standing infrared heater panel will continue saving money for many years as it has a long lifespan.

Special Offer is available on our website until Monday 5th January 2015