Natasha North

Poorly insulated, draught-prone, and infrequently used - home garages can be a tricky one when it comes to sourcing effective heating. Whether you use your garage purely as a storage spot, or more permanently as a workspace - making sure it’s toasty warm when you need it to be is made simple with electric heating. We’re here to run down our top three picks to make sure you’ll never have to get the winter woollies out to go into your garage again.

Sunday 5th June 2022 marks World Environment Day. Launched in 1974 by the United Nations, the event aims to bring awareness to our environment, how it is being impacted, and how we can all make improvements in our everyday lives. At Electric Radiators Direct, we take our environmental responsibility seriously. Our products represent an eco-friendly alternative to carbon heating, but our awareness goes beyond just the products we sell. To bring light to World Environment Day, we’re looking at how our practices, products, and people are all doing their bit to push towards a more sustainable planet.

If you’ve had a browse on our website before, you may have come across certain electric heating terminology that left you drawing blanks. Convection, conduction, and radiation are the three methods of heat transfer, and we sometimes refer to them to describe our products. But what exactly do they mean, and why do they matter? Hold off on digging out those old schoolbooks… we’re going to do this the easy way.

Electric towel rails are a beacon of warmth and luxury in bathrooms or kitchens, deftly taking the edge off chilly mornings and transforming towels into inviting cocoons of comfort. Although they all do a similar job, not all electric heated towel rails are the same, and they mainly differ in terms of their levels of control. We stock towel rails with simple on/off switches, for total functional simplicity, but also those with in-built thermostats that deliver advanced temperature management. We’re here to explore which type of control best suits your specific needs, and whether opting for an electric heated towel rail with thermostatic control is the way to go. Let’s jump in…

Working from home is an adjustment many of us have had to make over the last few years. Wherever you tend to get stuck into your daily tasks, be it at the makeshift office in the garden shed, or a custom-built loft conversion made for the job, assuring your work environment is comfortably warm is crucial for productivity. During winter, this is even more of a priority, with those chilly draughts becoming much more apparent once the weather turns. Winter-proofing your home office with electric heating is much simpler than you think - and we’re here to show you how.