You heat your bathroom to 24 degrees but it never feels warm. You step out of the shower and your feet hit ice cold tiles. The mirror is completely fogged for an hour, the walls are dripping water, the ceiling is slowly turning black in the corners, and your towels never really dry, they just stay damp and start to smell after two days.
You bought an expensive towel radiator that is burning hot at the top and ice cold at the bottom, it takes 45 minutes to make the room slightly less freezing and 5 minutes of open window to make it cold again. The bathroom was never meant to be heated with hot air. It is the only room where you are naked and wet. When you are naked and wet you don’t need hot air around your head, you need warm surfaces touching your body immediately.
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A Mirror That Heats And Never Fogs
An infrared mirror panel is three things at once. It is a real mirror, it is a heater, and it is the only true solution for mold. We take a 600 watt infrared panel and we put a high quality mirror glass on its front. It looks like a beautiful modern bathroom mirror, 60 by 90 centimeters, frameless, 2 centimeters thin. We install it exactly where your old mirror was. One power cable, same spot, 4 screws. When you switch it on from a small waterproof switch or from your phone 15 minutes before you shower, the mirror surface goes to 45 degrees in about 3 minutes.
A hot mirror can never fog. It is physically impossible for condensation to form on a surface that is warmer than the steamy air. You can shave, you can put makeup on, you can see yourself clearly while the shower is still running full steam behind you.
At the same time the mirror shoots invisible infrared rays to the opposite wall and down to the floor. Your floor tiles are no longer 14 degrees of ice shock, they become 26 degrees pleasantly warm to bare feet. You step out of the shower onto warm tiles, not onto a cold bath mat that you put there just because the floor was unbearable. The walls stay warm and dry as well. In a normal bathroom after a shower humidity goes to 95 percent and cold tiles stay dripping wet for two hours. That constant wet film is where mold is born. With an infrared mirror the walls are warmer than the steamy air, so water simply cannot stick to them. Humidity falls back to 60 percent in about 20 minutes without even opening the window. No more black dots on the silicone, no more black ceiling, no more peeling paint above the shower.
Why Towel Radiators Fail In Both Jobs
A towel radiator tries to do two jobs and fails at both. It tries to heat air but it can’t because it is covered with wet towels, so air cannot circulate. And it tries to dry towels but it can’t because hot air goes up to the ceiling, not through a wet towel. That is why towels stay damp and start to smell. An infrared mirror dries towels with light, not with air. You hang your towel on a simple hook one meter away from the mirror and the infrared rays hit the wet towel directly.
Light penetrates the fibers and evaporates water from the inside. A thick towel is dry in 40 minutes, warm, fluffy and fresh, with no musty smell and no extra towel heater needed. There is no burning hot metal that your child can touch and burn himself on. The glass is pleasantly warm, not scorching, safe to splash, IP65 rated, built to live in a bathroom for 25 years.
The Math Of A Real Spa Bathroom
A typical 6 square meter bathroom needs only 600 watts. And you don’t run it all day like a radiator. The smart program that most families use is ON from 06:00 to 08:00 for the morning shower, ON from 19:00 to 21:00 for the evening shower, and OFF the rest of the day on anti-mold background at 15 degrees. With its own WiFi thermostat the effective heating time is about one and a half hours per day. That is 0.9 kilowatt hours per day, about 0.22 euros per day, less than your hairdryer. Installation is 4 screws and one electrician connecting it to the same point as your old light.
We have clients who told us their bathroom was for 15 years the coldest ugliest room they hated entering in winter. After the infrared mirror it became the warmest room in the house, the room where kids go to play on the warm tiles in winter. Because in a bathroom you don’t want hot air that fogs your mirror. You want a warm mirror that always sees you, warm tiles that hug your feet, and walls that never grow black dots again.
