Not so long ago, if you were a typical UK home owner fed up with the drudgery and dirt associated with open fires, you might have been wondering how to heat your house and home. Most people at the time looked forward to installing central heating. Central heating promised a level of comfort and ease…
The electric underfloor heating kits supplied by BeWarmer are very efficient and do a great job of converting electrical energy into radiant heat. But we all have a duty to reduce our energy consumption as much as possible and so you may find these home heating economy tips useful. If you’re used to conventional central…
Because our system is really part of the floor construction, rather than ‘underfloor’, you’ll quickly feel the difference when the system comes on. Our type of heating is also known as ‘surface heating’, ‘floor finishing heating’, or, in the US, ‘floor decor heating’. But how quickly does underfloor heating warm up? In practice there are…
Each Coldbuster kit contains a KlimaGuard® installation monitor which will alert you to any damage to the element during installation or laying the floor covering. If the KlimaGuard® warning signal goes off, you should stop the installation and call for assistance. The KlimaGuard® monitor offers a ‘continuous health check’ throughout installation and no-one should ever…
If floor heating is to be installed in a bathroom, the following is important: The thermostat as well as isolator or plug must be positioned at least 600 mm away from bath-tub or shower-pan (Zone 3). [box type=”info”]Best practice is to locate the isolator for the electric underfloor heating system on the outside of a…
Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR) exists all around us in the natural world but it is occurrence in man made equipment is something that needs special attention. All types of electrical equipment give off EMR – including the computer or device you are using now – and manufacturers, quite rightly, go to great lengths to screen equipment. …
You can be sure your Coldbuster™ floor heating kit is the simplest and most reliable form of heating with no moving parts and nothing to leak or block up. But in the unlikely event it doesn’t seem to be working as it should, there are a couple of things you can check. If your heater…
If you’ve read our Home Heating Economy Tips you’ll know we recommend you consider running the heating continuously. This applies principally to frequently used rooms during cold weather. It means that if you turn the thermostat down when you are not in the room rather than switch it off, reaction time is fast when you…
COLDBUSTER® is a most efficient system when installed correctly and will give many years of trouble free operation. In practice there are several factors that will affect the running costs so it is impossible to give totally accurate figures. Power consumption will depend on heat loss*, sensible heat management, and the correct capacity installed. Given…
The size of the kit required is often dictated by the amount of available floor space available. This is often quite restricted in bathrooms and kitchens where you do not want to heat the floor beneath cupboards, appliances, shower trays, WCs and other fixed objects. In these situations you aim to heat all areas where…
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