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Skirting board heating is a modern and efficient heating solution that offers a range of benefits for homeowners. If your customers are looking for a space-saving, energy-efficient, and stylish heating option for their home, skirting board heating could just be the perfect choice. Yet, many homeowners have varied questions about how it works and what benefits it offers.
Here at City Plumbing, the home of heating, we’ve compiled a quick piece on the fantastic benefits of buying and installing skirting board heating in the home this season. Helping you to help your customers, you can offer guidance as your customers make an informed decision about this innovative heating solution this season.
Reasons To Recommend Skirting Board Heating
Skirting board heating is a great option to consider this season for several compelling reasons:
- Energy Efficiency and Lower Bills: It often operates at lower water temperatures (like underfloor heating) compared to traditional radiators, which makes it highly efficient, especially when paired with modern condensing boilers or renewable energy sources like heat pumps. This can translate to lower energy consumption and reduced heating bills.
- Even and Comfortable Heat: The system heats the room from the perimeter, distributing warmth evenly around the space. This uses radiant heat (warming objects and people directly) and gentle convection, which can eliminate cold spots and drafts common with single radiators. Homeowners may feel comfortable at a lower thermostat setting.
- Space-Saving and Aesthetics: It replaces existing skirting boards, which means no bulky radiators taking up wall or floor space. This frees up your customer’s room layouts for furniture and décor, providing a much cleaner, more modern look.
- Quick Response Time: Unlike underfloor heating, which is slow to heat up due to its thermal mass, skirting board heating systems generally have a quick response time (often heating up in 15–30 minutes), allowing homeowners to control the temperature more precisely and only use energy when they need it.
- Easier Installation/Retrofitting: It's much easier to install or retrofit into existing homes compared to underfloor heating, which requires tearing up the floor. This can mean less disruption to the home.
- Improved Air Quality: Since it relies less on convection currents than radiators, it circulates less dust and airborne particles, which can be beneficial for people with allergies or asthma.
What is Thermaskirt?
ThermaSkirt is a product manufactured by a company called Discrete Heat, which has been in business for over 15 years and was even featured on the TV show Dragons' Den.
It’s an innovative, patented heating system cleverly designed to look like a traditional skirting board. Essentially, it combines the functions of both the skirting board and a radiator into one discreet, space-saving unit.
Thermaskirt uses a highly conductive aluminum alloy to radiate heat low down and all around the room, providing comfortable, even warmth similar to underfloor heating, but with a much faster response time. Designed for both new-build and retrofit projects, Thermaskirt can be installed on an existing two-pipe radiator system.
Available in both water-based (H2O) versions (for use with boilers or heat pumps) and direct electric versions, Thermaskirt frees up wall space by eliminating bulky radiators, can be more energy-efficient than traditional radiators (especially with renewables like heat pumps), and reduces airborne dust compared to systems that rely heavily on convection.
Shop Thermskirt at City Plumbing
As a major national supplier to the heating and plumbing trade, City Plumbing is the number one choice for all professional installers and, by extension, to homeowners for several key reasons, especially as the colder season approaches.
From a vast choice of stock, our availability of essential heating products and network of branches means trade professionals can often get parts quickly through Click & Collect in as little as two hours, which is vital for emergency repairs in the colder weather. Here you can browse our superb selection of Thermaskirt products.
With expert support offered for modern and renewable heating alongside frequently run promotions, deals, and trade incentives, our services are tailored to the convenience of the professional heating engineer, like easy credit terms and a focus on minimising time spent sourcing materials, ensuring that you can focus on the job and respond to customer needs faster.
Choose City Plumbing for all your skirting board heating requirements. Take a further look at our website for more products and helpful advice on how we can help you keep your customers warm this season.
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