Useful tips and information relating to electric floor heating
I live in an area where most people have easy access to mains gas. So I was surprised to find out that well over 2 Million households in the UK cannot connect to the gas grid (source: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy). To keep costs down, these households need efficient electric heating. Relying…
Having friends and family over for Christmas is a great tradition. What could be more heartwarming than a house full of your nearest and dearest enjoying festive cheer? But when there’s not enough room for everyone to relax and enjoy themselves, the perfect get-together can quickly unravel because of crowded house stress. Show you are…
While reading the main RugBuddy page on this website, you may have been wondering why a rug underlay is necessary. There are a number of different reasons and they vary according to the circumstances. Some are common sense but other reasons are of a technical nature according to the floor surface and the fact that…
Selling heaters – even one as innovative as RugBuddy under-rug heater – is always going to be seasonal. Having just enjoyed(?) the warmest June day for some time, I don’t expect to be selling many this month. But I do have another product that dovetails neatly with my BeWarmer business. RugBuddies sell well in Autumn…
The Room by Room Heating Revolution Efficient on-demand heating and the switch from gas to electricity (Extracts from my talk at The National Self Build and Renovation Centre 9th October 2016) [quote] [/quote] Electrical heaters are broadly 100% efficient whereas gas boilers are less so, but inefficiencies of central generating plant and transmission losses mean…
As a non-medical person it was an eye-opener to me that a RugBuddy heated floor mat should be a godsend for people who are on Warfarin. And I’m guessing this goes for people with poor circulation who often say their feet are cold. I only found this out when Carol, from Nottinghamshire, kindly wrote in….
It’s not much fun feeling cold. Cranking up the heating isn’t an option for many and, in fact, it may even make the situation worse. So what is the smart thing to do to avoid ‘feeling cold’? In this post I aim to shed some light on the physiology of ‘feeling cold’ and link that…
Sometimes a full caravan floor heater or motorhome floor heater installation can seem a bit daunting. In any case, wouldn’t it be nice to make the investment only once and be able to take the heater with you when you next change ‘vans? For this to be possible you need a portable electric heater and one…
A big trend for us at the moment in the heating business is giving people the underfloor heating they want without having to dig up the floors! In-flooring and on-flooring heating New in-flooring and on-flooring heating heating makes this possible. For example, if you’re laying a new laminate floor, you can place in-flooring laminate heating on…
Many of us have central heating and rely on radiators in each room to keep us warm. Despite the name, radiators are really giant convectors and this post reveals why central heating radiators are bad for you. Convection and Allergies When air is heated it becomes less dense and rises: natural convection occurs. But convection (air…
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