Advantage Airtech Commercial Ltd. Blog: Archive for November, 2022

Commercial Heating Challenges We Often Deal With

Monday, November 21st, 2022
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Running a business is a challenging job, no matter its size or type. Ensuring proper heating in your commercial facility, especially during a Toronto winter, is one of several major challenges you have to deal with. The good news is that when it comes to commercial heating in Ajax, ON, you can trust any problem to our expert technicians. And we do mean any problem: we have more than 30 years of experience with industrial and commercial heating systems that makes us qualified to tackle any heating challenge in any commercial facility.

We could definitely tell you some unusual stories about heating problems we’ve solved for clients. But it’s more useful to you if we discuss the common commercial heating issues we’re called to handle. These are the types of challenges that your business is most likely to run into during the coming winter.

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Using Radiant Heating for Large, Open Commercial Spaces

Monday, November 7th, 2022
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The term radiant heating tends to mean something different in the commercial and industrial sector than it does in the residential. When you hear residential HVAC technicians talk about adding radiant heating to a house, they’re usually referring to heating using a boiler, a.k.a. hydronic heating. In hydronic heating, a boiler heats up water and sends it to terminal points such as radiators and baseboard heaters to raise their temperature, which then sends waves of heat into rooms. Other types of radiant heating in homes include electrical elements in the floor or walls that heat up building material and radiate heat indoors.

These methods are used in commercial buildings, but when technicians talk about using a radiant heating system for a commercial or industrial space, they usually mean radiant tube heating. The heat from these is still radiant, i.e. it doesn’t heat the air but instead sends infrared waves to heat the people and objects within that space. However, radiant heaters work much differently than hydronic systems, and they have a special use: they’re excellent at heating large, open spaces such as warehouses or spaces that are often exposed to the outside cold.

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