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- Hey I'm Jeff Caldwell with Heating Green,
we're on location in Lynden, Washington
and we're here to solve a problem
that a homeowner has with their room heaters,
it's just not getting the place warm enough,
they're expensive to run, and we're gonna
solve that problem with our infrared radiant heaters.
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You're probably used to seeing these
in homes and offices, etc.
So this is what was in this home,
electric resistant wall heater.
Has a grille on the front, comes off,
and what's going on here, is just
pulling in air, and you've got a coil right here.
So, what the homeowner said, is it's noisy,
it's waking them up at night, it was taking
up usable space in front of bureaus,
things like that, and then when they
pulled it off, they couldn't believe
how much dust, and their reaction was
"Is this a fire hazard?"
So what they did in some of the rooms,
they abandoned these altogether,
and they were using space heaters,
which weren't making any noise,
but still, were better to run,
but these, themselves, they said
were very expensive to run.
So, while the upfront cost was low,
the operating cost was very high on these.
So in this space where people spend a lot
of time at the dining table, in the beautiful
kitchen and dining area, what we're
finding is, here's the heater.
It's down low, and it's by the door,
and kinda behind the table, and it's really
not doing much, it's blowing warm air,
and they can't enjoy the ambiance
of the room as they'd like to.
So now we've turned on the wall heater,
and what's happening is yes, warm air is
coming out, but so is dust, and it's noisy,
and it's taking up usable space, and we're gonna
solve that issue with a cove heater in this room.
So this is one of the solutions that we're gonna use.
This is a infrared cove heater.
It's gonna mount up on the wall,
not take up any usable space.
It's gonna need no maintenance whatsoever,
and the room is gonna feel like you're
sitting in rays of sunshine.
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Here we are at the thermostat,
and we can simply keep this,
or switch it out to a more energy-efficient one,
and put our cove heater right up on the wall.
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So here we are we've installed the thermostat,
and the infrared cove heater, and what's nice
is, no usable space is taken up,
no maintenance whatsoever, there's no noise at all,
and we're gonna save 30 to 40 percent
on our heating cost because now we're
heating up the people and the objects
in the room, not just the air.
It feels warm and cozy in the room.
Unlike before, it just never felt comfortable.
So now we're in the living room,
and just like the kitchen area,
here's the heater now, behind the TV stand,
taking up usable space.
This is where people spend a lot of time,
they're not comfortable, we're gonna
change all that.
And guess what, the thermostat's on an exterior wall.
That's a horrible location, it really
needs to be on an interior wall, next to a light
switch, where it's more energy- efficient.
The other solution to the heating problems
is this infrared radiant heating panels.
As you can see it's the world's thinnest,
at a half-inch thick, and will fit
on the ceiling, and again, like the cove heater
it's not gonna take up any usable space,
no noise, and also save them about 30 to 40 percent
on their energy cost.
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Here we are in the living room, and before,
it was an uncomfortable space,
that had wall heaters that took up usable space,
hidden behind furniture, which is dangerous,
made noise, and were expensive to run.
Now we're gonna solve that problem
with our infrared radiant heating panels.
They don't take up usable space,
there's no noise, and they're gonna save
at least 30 to 40 percent on their energy cost.
Okay, Scott everything's installed,
tell us what was going on before.
- Yeah so we're really excited
about having heat in this place,
because for the last couple of years,
as soon as the temperature dropped,
it got deathly cold in here.
- Okay.
- Um, spent a lot of money, had uh,
everything re-insulated, uh, I mean,
couldn't figure out why, the minute
the heaters got turned off, this place just
got really cold, so um.
Yeah, massive difference now,
- Okay.
- With, with the system.
- I noticed that in addition to the wall heaters,
the electric wall heaters,
you also had space heaters.
- I've spent a lot of money at hardware stores
buying whatever kind of heater
I thought would work, but again,
it would heat up the room barely,
and the minute you turn it off,
the heat's gone.
Everybody walked in there and went
"Whoa, what's going on here,
it's not cold in this room anymore."
Everybody that went in the living room
immediately noticed something's different.
- Great.
- So, and then the other thing,
is the uh, the cost.
The electric bill did not go up,
even though the heating got way better.
Yeah that's another thing I love
about it, is it goes up on the wall,
you don't even really notice it,
kinda looks nice, and just does its job.
I mean that's, so that's when we said
"all right, we're doing the whole house."
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The minute you walk in, you notice,
wow, it's not freezing in here anymore.
I mean it was just always cold in here,
no matter what we did.
So just having this kind of this constant,
steady heat's been great, uh, my wife
commented that even my bones feel warm now,
because of this, you know, "what is this uh
radiant heat," so yeah, it's awesome.
We're using the space more, because no one's
uncomfortable, it feels homey,
it's night and day difference.
- Great, great.
So your place is the new hangout spot, huh?
- Oh, absolutely.
- Fantastic, I'll be over.
- All right.