
Being a tax advisor is a hard job – Mr. Podlešák spends up to 14 hours at the computer dealing with hundreds of thousands of figures every day. So to relax he goes down to his
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The great advantage of the new-generation infrared heaters is the noticeably improved feeling of warm comfort when dwelling indoors. Since the infra waves heat directly the inhabitants or radiate from the surrounding warm objects it is possible to heat the rooms to a temperature by 2-3 degrees lower than when using standard heating systems.
Convection heating systems take advantage of the great temperature disparity between the heated air and the cool air in the room, regardless of the primary heat-source type (gas boiler, solid fuel boiler, electric convertor, heat pump). Air is used for heat transfer – hot air rises allowing cool air to flow in its place, setting up a constant currant of warm air. When we use a standard heater (a radiator, direct heating and suchlike) warm air ascends towards the ceiling while cold air descends towards the floor. It is much warmer at the ceiling level than down, near the ground, where we spend the most time.
For heating air the infrared heating system uses 20% of energy at the very most; for infrared rays are able to heat walls and the floor directly. There is very little temperature difference between floor and ceiling in a room equipped with infrared heating; in fact it usually stays around 1 °C (with convection heating temperature difference can be even 10 °C). In relation to the ambient temperature the surrounding structures have higher or in the least equal temperature and people in the room don’t anymore suffer from having “cold feet”.