Nobody lives in a house 24 hours a day. You live in a living room from 17:00 to 23:00. You live in a bedroom from 23:00 to 06:00. You live in a kids room from 14:00 to 20:00. You live in an office Monday to Friday 9 to 5. You never live in a guest room. But your gas boiler heats your house 24 hours a day. Because it has one brain for 100 square meters. You must heat everything to heat something. That is why heating is expensive. Not because energy is expensive. Because you heat hours you never live. An infrared panel with its own thermostat does not heat your house. It heats your hours.
One Room Is One House
One ceiling panel, 2 cm thin, 60×120 cm, 700W for a 14 sqm room, 7 kilos, 4 screws, one cable, 15 minutes install. No water, no pipes, no boiler, no chimney, no gas leak risk. One WiFi thermostat on the wall with a small wireless sensor you put where you actually sit. On your desk, on your nightstand, on the floor where your kid plays. Not on top of a 55 degree hot piece of metal that lies about temperature.
That sensor tells the panel what you feel. The panel does not heat air. It shines invisible infrared light, like February sun through a window that warms your face even when air is minus 5. That light crosses air without loss and becomes heat only when it hits something solid. In 60 seconds you feel soft warmth on skin like a fireplace. In 15 minutes floor is 23 degrees warm barefoot. In 30 minutes walls are 22 degrees warm to touch. Now every surface around you radiates warmth back to you like an old tile stove. Your body stops losing 100 watts to cold walls. You feel perfectly cozy at 20 degrees air while with radiators you needed 24. Two degrees less is 14 percent less energy every single day.
Why It Only Works 2.5 Hours A Day
A radiator stores heat in air. Air stores 0.34 Wh per cubic meter. You open a window for 5 minutes, all heat is gone, walls still 14 degrees cold, you need an hour to reheat. So radiator must run constantly.
Infrared stores heat in your house itself. One cubic meter of brick stores 500 Wh, 1500 times more than air. You already own 100 cubic meters of that storage for free. Thermostat heats walls to 22 degrees, then turns off. Walls keep radiating for 40 minutes while panel is off. Air drops only 1 degree because walls warm it. Then panel turns on for 20 minutes to recharge walls. On 20, off 40, on 20, off 40. Effective work 2.5 hours per day, 1.75 kWh per day per room, 0.44 euro per day per room, whole winter per room about 79 euros.
Open windows for 10 minutes. With radiators you lose everything. With infrared you lose air but heat stays in walls and floor. Close window and in 3 minutes air is warm again because walls warm it.
How People Set Their Hours
Living room 21 degrees from 17:00 to 23:00 only. Off rest of day. Bedroom 19 for sleep because you sleep better cold, but 22 for 20 minutes before alarm and 20 minutes before bedtime so floor is warm when you step barefoot. Kids room 21 from 14:00 to 20:00 only. Office 21 Monday to Friday 9 to 5 only, off weekend. Guest room 15.5 all winter anti mold mode for 6 cents a day, because a wall that is 15.5 warm can never get wet, so mold can never grow. Physically impossible to condense on warmer surface. In 90 percent of houses black dots behind wardrobes dry out by themselves in 3 weeks without bleach.
Weekend house on coast has no water inside, so nothing can freeze and burst. You leave it at minus 15 for 3 months completely off, zero cost. One hour before arrival you tap ON on phone, arrive to warm floors and bathroom mirror that never fogs because glass is 45 degrees warm.
No air movement, no draft, no dust flying, no burning smell, humidity stays at healthy 50 percent, not 30 percent dry. Silent, maintenance free, 25 year warranty, no boiler service 150 euros, no gas fixed fee 12 euros a month even when you do not heat.
Available as white, black glass, mirror that never fogs, or your family photo printed on it that heats the living room.
Stop heating square meters you do not use. Start heating hours you actually live.
