Nothing on the walls. Heat only the rooms you use. Slim white PowerBoard panels on the ceiling warm people and everything in the room directly, instead of heating the air first. Supplied and installed across the UK.
Four parts, and one of them is a list of things you never buy. Compare that with a boiler quote, where the labour, flue and pipework often cost more than the boiler.
From £249 each at store prices. This is most of the cost, it is public, and you can price it yourself before anyone visits.
One smart thermostat per zone, so every room runs its own schedule. Sized to your room count, listed in the store alongside the panels.
Either a short electrician visit to sign off DIY-mounted panels, or a quoted 1-2 day fit for the whole house. Labour is priced for your home, not a national flat rate.
No flue, no pipework, no gas connection, no drained system, no annual service. The absences are where infrared quietly wins on installed cost.
The hardware is the heart of the cost, and it is public. One panel per small room, two or three for larger spaces.
Bedrooms, offices, bathrooms
Living rooms, kitchens
Large or open-plan rooms
Plus thermostats and controls, sized to your room count. See the store for current pricing and room kits.
Counts assume a modern cavity-insulated home and a surface-mounted 500W/750W mix; a concealed 250W ceiling system uses roughly twice the panel count. Older or solid-wall homes need more power. The free remote heat-loss survey replaces these estimates with your exact numbers.
Hardware figures are panels only, at current store prices for the 500W/750W mix shown, before thermostats and controls. Many customers start with one or two rooms and extend later, because panels are independent of any existing system.
No water drained, no floorboards up, no skip on the drive. This is the whole job, start to finish.
Room sizes, insulation and glazing become an exact panel count and layout. You see the full cost before committing to anything.
Delivered to your door with brackets and plug-and-play harnesses. Check the kit against the survey plan.
Panels fix to the ceiling like plasterboard, room by room. No floorboards up, no walls chased, no water drained.
A qualified electrician connects the thermostats and certifies the work under Part P, protecting the 10-year warranty.
Each room is usable the moment its panel is signed off, at full warmth in under 10 minutes. No commissioning visit, no waiting.
Unlike a boiler swap, you choose how much of the job to do yourself, and that choice is most of the difference in installed cost.
Panels mount to the ceiling like plasterboard and connect with plug-and-play harnesses. A qualified electrician connects and certifies the thermostat wiring, typically a half-day visit at local rates, which keeps everything Part P compliant and protects the 10-year warranty.
Cost: hardware plus a short electrician visit.
A PoweRad-vetted installer or your own electrician fits the whole system, usually in 1-2 days for a whole house, room by room with no pipework and no mess. Labour is quoted for your home rather than a national flat rate, because access and wiring runs differ.
Cost: hardware plus a quoted 1-2 day fit.
Compare the alternative: a replacement gas boiler typically costs £3,000 to £5,000 installed in the UK before any radiator or pipework changes, then needs a flue, a gas connection and an annual service for life. Infrared has none of those, which is why the installed cost usually lands lower and the running of it is simpler. See how we calculate savings.
There is a lot of loose talk online about 0% VAT on infrared panels. Here is the honest version, so there are no surprises when the quote lands.
Panels: 20% VAT. Infrared heating panels are standard-rated. They are not on HMRC's energy-saving materials zero-rate list (that list covers things like solar, heat pumps and insulation, not electric heaters). Anyone telling you the panels themselves are VAT-free is mistaken.
Solar and battery: 0% VAT until 31 March 2027. If you add a solar array or home battery, the supply and installation of those parts is zero-rated under the current scheme. That is a genuine saving, and one reason the battery and solar packages stack up so well.
We apportion every quote this way and show you the split, nothing buried.
VAT rules can change and individual circumstances vary. Please check with your own accountant.
Honest picture, both halves. A gas boiler is cheaper on day one. Over a 30-year life, with servicing, repairs and replacements counted, the order reverses. Figures from our 30-year cost comparison.
before radiator or pipework changes, then an annual service for life
fully installed, 1-2 days, no pipework, £0 aftercare
3-7 days, outdoor unit, often new radiators
30-year totals include installation, running costs, maintenance and replacement cycles for a typical 3-bed home.
Running costs are the other half of the story: see monthly running costs.
Leave your details and we will arrange your free remote heat-loss survey: an exact panel count, layout and installed cost for your house, with a like-for-like running cost comparison against what you have now. No pressure and no obligation, and if infrared is not right for your home, we will tell you that too.
PoweRad is a founder-run Welsh company. The founder is a qualified electrician who designed the panel, so the person behind the product understands the installation better than anyone.
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For a typical modern cavity-insulated 3-bed semi there are two routes. A concealed ceiling system uses around 22 to 29 slimline 250W panels, from about £4,850 in panels at store prices. A surface-mounted system uses 10 to 14 higher-output 500W and 750W panels, from about £3,300 to £3,900. Older or solid-wall homes need more power either way. Both routes add thermostats and controls, and fitting is either DIY with an electrician sign-off or a 1-2 day installer job quoted locally. The free remote heat-loss survey gives you the exact count and mix before you spend anything.
Usually, yes. A replacement gas boiler with installation typically runs £3,000 to £5,000 in the UK before any radiator or pipework changes, and needs a flue, a gas connection and an annual service afterwards. Infrared panels need no pipework, no flue and no gas connection, so the installed cost is usually lower and there is nothing to service afterwards.
Mostly, yes. Panels mount to the ceiling with the included brackets and connect with plug-and-play cable harnesses, which is within reach of a competent DIYer. The thermostat wiring must be connected and signed off by a qualified electrician, which keeps the installation compliant and protects the 10-year warranty.
A single room takes hours. A 1-2 bed flat is usually a one-day job, a 3-bed semi one to two days, and a large 4-5 bed house around two days. There is no pipework, no floorboards up and no drained system, so rooms come back into use as each one is finished rather than the whole house being out of action.
Usually not for a zoned system, because panels cycle on and off rather than all drawing at once, but it is exactly what the electrician confirms before anything is fitted. Older fuse boards sometimes need upgrading first, and your electrician will tell you that in minutes. The supply check is part of the sign-off, not an extra to arrange.
Installation is internal electrical work, so planning permission is not normally needed. The electrical connection falls under Part P, which is exactly what the electrician sign-off covers. Listed buildings are usually fine too because nothing changes externally, but check anything specific with your conservation officer.
No. Infrared panels have no moving parts, no filters, no pressure to check and no annual service requirement, which is a permanent saving compared with a gas boiler service every year. The panels carry a 10-year warranty and are built for a 30+ year working life.
It calculates the heat requirement of each room from its size, insulation and glazing, and turns that into an exact panel count and layout. That means you buy the right number of panels rather than guessing, and you see a like-for-like running cost comparison against your current system before committing.
Size your system and see its hardware price in minutes, or book a free remote heat-loss survey and get the full installed picture for your home, panel count, layout and running costs, before you spend anything.