Electric infrared heating systems · Floor, wall and ceiling
Lamina Heat designs, manufactures and supports carbon-fibre electric infrared heating systems that disappear into the floors, walls and ceilings of the finest homes and buildings. Heating elements from 0.4 to 1.4 mm thick. Once the finish goes on, you will never see it again.
One element, three surfaces
The same carbon-fibre element goes under the floor, behind the plaster, or into the ceiling. Which one is a question of what suits you and the room best, not of what the system can do. We work with you to identify the best solution for your space.
Large open spaces where warm feet are wanted, rooms with ceilings above three metres, and buildings heated around the clock. The largest emitting area at the lowest surface temperature.
Rooms with ceilings under three metres, spaces heated intermittently, and anywhere comfort matters most. It carries the largest infrared proportion of the three systems, and holds the coldest surface above dew point.
PowerBoard 250 where a suspended plasterboard ceiling is going in. PowerBoard 500 and 750 for open offices and home renovations that need fast mounting with no construction work.
The difference, drawn
A radiator, a heat pump or a warm-air unit warms air, then waits for that air to carry the heat to you. Hot air rises, stratifies at the ceiling and leaves the moment a door opens. Radiant heating skips the carrier: energy travels as far-infrared, is absorbed by surfaces and people, and warms them directly. It is the most natural way to be warm, the same mechanism as the sun, and because nothing is wasted heating air you will never occupy, it is both more comfortable and more energy efficient than any system that moves heat around on air or water.
The whole floor, wall or ceiling emits far-infrared at a low surface temperature. Energy is absorbed by you and by the room's surfaces directly, so comfort holds when a door opens and the air is never heated hard enough to dry it out. Nothing is ducted or vented, and floor, wall and PowerBoard 250 systems are invisible once finished.
The wavelength
Our surfaces emit long-wave infrared at 6 to 15 µm, the same band your own body radiates at. It is absorbed at the skin rather than passing into it, it cannot be seen, and it warms the room's surfaces as readily as it warms you.
The physics, with the spectrum drawn →What we supply
From heat-loss calculation to commissioning records. Your trades install it. Our engineering stands behind it.
Room-by-room heat loss, element layout drawings and load schedules, prepared from your plans.
Heaters made to length and pre-cabled to the drawing, labelled per room and shipped as a kit with connectors and thermostats.
Heaters laid out to the design plan by your own trades and cabled together, with remote support on the first projects.
Resistance and insulation tests, thermal imaging of every zone, and commissioning records for handover.
Send us plans and a construction spec. We return a room-by-room heat loss calculation, element layout drawings, circuit and load schedules, and the electrical design your contractor builds from.
Carbon-fibre elements prepared and pre-cabled to your room design, from 600 to 900 mm wide and in variable lengths depending on the product type. No additional wiring and no manipulation of the films is required on site.
Thermostats, sensors and zone logic specified with the system, so a fast-responding surface is actually run fast. Low-voltage systems run on the LaminaHeat Multi Zone Power Supply: up to five independently controlled zones per unit, up to 6000 W, 110–240 V in and 12–48 V out, with a PV or battery DC input.
Method statements for your trades, a pre-cover inspection checklist, remote support during the install, and commissioning records for handover. Your electrician and your plasterer fit it.
CE and UKCA marked across the range, BEAB tested to IEC 60335-1, with SafeTech EGS additionally UL listed. ISO 9001 manufacturing, a 10-year product warranty and a tested 20+ year service life with under 3% output degradation.
The material
Carbon fibre is what lets a heating element be full-surface, from 0.4 to 1.4 mm thick, fully grounded and safe enough to bury in a wall for the life of the building. It is why we can size the element to the room instead of picking one from a shelf.
Material and SafeTech testing →
The element disappears into plaster, adhesive or screed.
Tensile strength several times that of steel at a fifth of the density.
Carbon fibre tolerates temperatures far beyond anything a building sees.
Zero moisture absorption. Tested submerged as part of SafeTech.
A grounded full-surface element, not a wire on a spacing.
The 48 V system connects straight to solar or a battery, with no inverter in between.
Built and running
A three-storey house hand-built in 1950 and heated by a wood-fired oven ever since. ComfortScrim went into the walls of the 36 m² living and dining room, 15.6 linear metres of 600 mm film on a 3200 VA supply, and was plastered straight over.
25 working hours · two daysPowerBoard panels surface-mounted to the existing ceilings of an occupied English home. No construction work, no floors lifted and no walls disturbed.
Surface-mounted panels
SafeTech EGS heaters set out wall to wall across a large office floor and daisy-chained with plug-and-play connectors before the finish went down. No plant room, no manifolds.
Plug-and-play heaters“We do not need hot air to feel comfortable.”
Certified and tested
The element range
If you are specifying rather than buying a system, this is the range. We will still do the layout and the load schedule.
| Element | Voltage | Surfaces | Embedded in | Specified when |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ComfortScrim | 12–48 V DC | Floor, wall, ceiling | Plasters, adhesives, levelling compounds | Invisible comfort heat is wanted in walls and ceilings, and ceilings are under three metres |
| SafeTech EGS | 110–240 V AC | Floor | Under floating, dry and embedded floor finishes | Warm feet are wanted, or ceilings exceed three metres |
| PowerBoard 250 | 110–240 V AC | Ceiling | Plasterboard grid, 1200 × 600 mm | A suspended plasterboard ceiling is being installed |
| PowerBoard 500 / 750 | 110–240 V AC | Ceiling, surface-mounted | Nothing, mounted panel | No large construction is allowed and fast mounting is required, with ceilings under 3.5 metres |
From the blog
How infrared heating works: radiant heat transfer warms objects and people directly instead of the air. The physics, the efficiency case, and where it belongs in a home.
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Is infrared heating cost effective? What it costs to install, what it costs to run, how to work out the kilowatt hours for your own building, and the drawbacks worth knowing.
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Are infrared heaters safe? Long-wave infrared warms surfaces rather than penetrating skin, moves no dust and burns nothing. What safety actually rests on, and what to check.
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Dry lips, itchy skin and static shocks in winter. Heating does not remove moisture from air, but it does lower relative humidity, and some heaters make it far worse than others.
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Practical ways to stay warm this winter without moving the thermostat: sealing draughts, warming surfaces, dressing for it, and heating the room you are in rather than the whole house.
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Office temperature measurably affects error rates, cognitive performance and output. Where the productive band sits, why one setting never suits a whole floor, and what to do instead.
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A living room, a bedroom and a bathroom each want something different from a heating system. Which surface to heat, which element to use, and the practical constraints in each room.
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Classrooms are occupied in bursts, hold thirty heat-generating bodies, and are refurbished in six-week windows. Why radiant heating suits school buildings, and what it does for learning.
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A step-by-step method for working out how much infrared heating a room needs and how many panels that means: heat load bands, a worked example, and where to place the panels.
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Healthcare buildings need heat that does not move air, cannot be tampered with, needs no maintenance and can be zoned ward by ward. Where radiant heating fits, and where it does not.
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The three classes of infrared panel, how to size and place them, what to check before buying, and where an embedded system beats a surface-mounted one.
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An even-handed look at infrared heating. What it genuinely does better than a radiator or a heat pump, what it does worse, and the situations where you should choose something else.
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A low-voltage DC heating element can run straight off solar panels or a battery with no inverter in the path. Why infrared and PV pair unusually well, and what it takes to do it properly.
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Heated walls store heat and warm the lower half of a tall room; heated ceilings distribute evenly and free up wall space. How to pick between them, and what each costs to install and run.
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Most infrared panels heat with a resistive wire and hang on the wall at 90 to 110 °C. PowerBoard uses a full-surface carbon-fibre film, goes into the ceiling, and runs cooler. Five differences that matter.
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PowerBoard infrared ceiling panels install in around twelve minutes each, fitting and electrical connection included. What that does to a construction programme against radiators or underfloor heating.
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Infrared heats surfaces rather than air, responds in minutes and zones room by room. Where the saving genuinely comes from, and how to work out the kilowatt hours for your own building.
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Our mains-voltage carbon-fibre heating film is certified to UL 2683, the standard for heating elements and assemblies. What the certification tests, and why it is harder for a full-surface element.
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The PowerBoard ceiling heating system holds Intertek BEAB certification to IEC 60335-1, the international safety standard for household electrical appliances. What that certification actually covers.
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Warm surfaces do not reach dew point, so they do not condense. How radiant heating keeps a house inside the 40 to 60% humidity band without a dehumidifier, and why that matters for mould and comfort.
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Boilers and heat pumps make heat a long way from where it is used, and every metre of that journey costs energy. Why generating heat millimetres from the surface changes the arithmetic.
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A suit and a summer dress can differ by six degrees of comfort. What clo values are, why desert and arctic clothing look the way they do, and what it means for setting an office temperature.
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Metabolism explains most of the office thermostat war. How basal metabolic rate, activity and body composition change the heat a person produces, and why one set temperature can never suit everyone.
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Far infrared is non-ionising radiation at the long, low-energy end of the spectrum. Where it sits relative to UV and x-rays, what our films actually emit, and why surface temperature is the real safety question.
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Too little air movement and you get mould and stale air; too much and you feel cold. Where the comfortable range sits, why draughts cost so much energy, and how heating choice changes both.
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Carbon fibre lets a heating element be a fraction of a millimetre thick, full-surface, perforable, non-combustible and unaffected by twenty years of heating cycles. Why the material decides the product.
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Comfort is not a temperature, it is a balance. The four routes your body loses heat by, the six variables that govern them, and why radiation is the one heating systems usually ignore.
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Why a heated ceiling should run at about 55 °C. Emissivity, surface area and surface temperature under the Stefan–Boltzmann law, and where comfort sets the ceiling on temperature.
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How we support distributorsThe same element heats vehicle interiors, wearables, bridge decks and driveways. We supply it cut and terminated to your assembly, from 5 to 3000 W/m² and 5 to 680 V.
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