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Many older homes that were once heated by wood-burning stoves don’t have heating and air conditioning ducts with which to deliver the heat to the different rooms of the house. Installing these ducts after the fact can be both difficult and costly, as many home remodelers can attest to. Happily, there is a solution to adding heating to homes that have not been built for traditional forced air systems: radiant heaters.

As opposed to warm air systems (such as a forced air unit heaters), radiant heaters deliver the source of heat to the floor level, not the ceiling. Radiant heaters or radiant energy is the oldest form of heating used to provide comfort and is the basis for all heating systems. Radiant energy is totally pure radiation and is absorbed by an object without physical contact with the heat source or by heating the surrounding air, as is the case with convective, forced air systems.

Because radiant heaters can be installed under many types of floors or surfaces, they make adding heat to any room of the home very simple. Furthermore, radiant heaters offer more comfort than forced air heating by heating the atmosphere from the ground up. Since heat rises, the heat will be more evenly distributed, providing a much more comfortable atmosphere.

Radiant Heaters Tip: Installation of heating in older homes is easier, more efficient, and affordable when you’re talking about radiant heaters.