Overhead heaters are made to spot heat specific areas such as work spaces, hotel waiting areas, patios and garages. These infrared heaters come in natural gas and propane fuel options. Glass patio heaters have an architectural design for higher end locations like restaurants.
A Sunstar heater is the answer for spot or area heating and total building heating needs. It can also replace existing ceramic heaters, which are often inefficient due to convection. Overhead propane heaters, heat like the sun by transferring heat directly into areas that need it most without warming up other parts of your facility in order to create a warm comfort zone at floor level, this results in fuel savings between 30% and 50%.
How does it work?
If you are not sure of how a infrared heater like this works, have you ever been outside a hotel during the winter? Many hotels and restaurants install gas overhead heaters to keep their guests warm while waiting for a taxi or their car.
Heating your whole building is not always a good idea. In fact, for every degree you raise the temperature in an office, home or garage above 68 degrees Fahrenheit, productivity drops by about five percent and indoor air quality worsens. Use these heaters to provide just enough warmth where needed.
Best placement
What is the difference between electric heating and infrared heating?
People often confuse electric and infrared but they are fundamentally different: while energy heats from within (like convection), infrared transfers heat directly into objects with which they come in contact without warming up other areas of the room, the cement floor, furniture and machinery will absorb the heat in turn will warm the room or area.
Patio Heater Positioning Tips
Where are overhead gas heaters commonly used?
Hotels
Many hotels use overhead outdoor heaters in their main entrance area to keep guests warm while waiting for taxis and their cars outdoors during the winter months, these spot heaters are essential to keep guests warm and comfortable.
Restaurants
When the temperature starts to drop restaurants with outdoor patio space need to keep patrons coming, an outdoor heater is designed to keep them warm during the winter months, manufacturers such as Sunstar and Heatstar offer that offer a more modern designer style appearance to work with the atmosphere of their restaurant.
Fab Shops
Fab shops are typically large open areas that can get cold once the outdoor air drops, heating a large space may not be the most efficient way of keeping employees warm, using these heaters as a spot heater will keep the work areas warm during the winter months.
Garages
An overhead garage heater is a great option for the weekend warrior to keep their work space warm, there are many options for heating a space like this, you can choose to heat with warm air that a modine heater can produce, this will heat the entire garage along with a garage tube heater by Sunstar, if you are needing to spot heat a work space in a garage then an overhead garage heater is the best choice.