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What Is Infrared Heating?

Infrared heating works by radiant heat — similar to how the sun warms your body — rather than by heating the air like conventional heaters. Radiant heaters warm people and objects directly, which can feel more natural and comfortable while often using less energy to maintain comfort.

Key characteristics of infrared heating:

Direct radiant warmth: Heats objects and people first, not air.
Efficient and electric: 100% electric, so you can pair them with renewable electricity for low-carbon heating.
Reduced condensation: By warming surfaces, infrared can help reduce damp and mould compared with some traditional convective systems.
Low maintenance: Many infrared panels are maintenance-free and long-lasting.

About Herschel Infrared

Herschel is a UK-based brand and one of the longest-established manufacturers of infrared heaters. They offer a wide range of infrared solutions for domestic, commercial, outdoor, and even heritage (e.g., churches) applications.

The company emphasises:

High radiant efficiency for comfort and lower running costs.
Design variety, with slim panels, mirrors, towel heaters, ceiling tiles, and more.
Sustainability, aiming for net-zero heating solutions that work well with renewables.

Infrared Heating

Radiant Heat is the Most Basic Form of Heating Known to Man

Infrared heaters work by converting electricity into radiant heat. Infrared is part of the electromagnetic spectrum. The heat is the same feeling of warmth as the winter sun on your face and the heat from a coal fire.

Infrared is the direct transfer of heat from the heater to the object (you and the room around you) without heating the air in between. It’s the same heat we feel from an environment warmed by the sun, and the wavelength most efficiently absorbed by the body.

Today, new technology, in the form of our 100% energy efficient, Herschel Infrared heating, allows us to use infrared radiant heating in a stylish, comfortable and highly controllable way.

Make your room a 360° radiator

Radiant heat is invisible light. In the same way that lights are sited to light a room, Herschel Infrared heaters emit heat to directly warm the walls, floor and ceiling of a building (the ‘thermal mass’). Once the thermal mass is warm, the building itself retains the heat for a period of time, so the heater only needs to be on to top up.

Most of other forms of heaters are convection heaters which primarily heat volumes of air, which then has to transfer its heat to the building in order to warm the thermal mass. The problem is that hot air rises to the ceiling (where you don’t want it) and easily escapes with draughts and open doors. The direct transfer of heat to the building is why Herschel is more efficient and saves energy compared to convection heating.

It also more comfortable because you don’t have cold floors and stuffy air.

Heat we were designed for

Infrared is completely safe and is, in fact, the same wavelength that our bodies absorb and emit. Humans are radiant objects.
More than 60% of our sense of comfort or discomfort is governed by our radiant heat gain or loss. Only 15% of our sense of comfort is governed by air temperature and movement.

This means we usually feel warm if we’re absorbing heat from our environment and often feel cold if we’re radiating out our own body heat to the outside world.

For most people, if the environment around us is more than 26C or less than 16C, we feel discomfort, because we are either gaining or losing too much body heat.

So, if we warm the walls, ceiling and floor of the room we are in (not the air) to at least 17c and ideally to around 22c, our bodies will stop perceiving that we are losing heat and we will feel warm and comfortable.

This is the objective of infrared heating: to build up “thermal mass” in an environment and let it keep you warm.

What Is Infrared Heating?

About Herschel Infrared

Infrared Heating

Make your room a 360° radiator

Heat we were designed for

Electrical Services

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What Is Infrared Heating?

About Herschel Infrared

Infrared Heating

Make your room a 360° radiator

Heat we were designed for

Electrical Services

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