subject: Radiator Panels and Logmakers – Saving Energy the Simple Way [print this page] Radiator Panels and Logmakers Saving Energy the Simple Way
There are a wide variety of eco friendly products on the market and they range from the very sophisticated like solar powered chargers and energy monitors, to more simple and less complex devices.
Despite their simplicity, two of the most popular eco-friendly items are also two of the easiest ways of saving money and helping to keep you warm perhaps the most eco-damaging and expensive use of energy we use.
Radiator panels, although on the face of it look pretty simple, in actuality they use some rather clever materials. These reflective panels work by bouncing the heat radiation produced at the back of the radiator back into a room.
As radiators are identical front and back, the read produces just as much heat as the face. Unfortunately, this normally gets soaked up by the back wall but radiator panels make use of it, their reflective surface directing it back into the room.
This allows you to turd the thermostat down which saves money and energy. As they are easy to fit too, reflective radiator panels don't require the removal of radiators or the need of a plumber.
Log Makers are used by people who have open or log burning fires. Burning wood can be an eco-friendly alternative method of heating you home but only if the material you are burning produces the maximum amount of heat for the smoke produced.
Log makers allow you to turn recycled material newspaper, envelopes, junk mail etc into compact and burnable material for the fire.
The logs produced by logmakers are compact and slow burning so can provide heat for little smoke. Logmakers can turn all sorts of household waste into fuel and they make a great gift for people with open fires of wood burning stoves.
