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Heating film

Heating films are one of the technics used for modern underfloor heating. It is supposed to be more affordable for those who want to have a heating system that fits the design for each room as the films can be placed or removed easily when needed. Some heating system controllers can allow the resident to select which surface will be heated. Most of the heating films sold are based on a carbon film, a silver booth bar, copper foil booth placed under a laminex film. This system is someway similar to a secondary defrogger that can be found in motor vehicles. This heating system is mainly used in Asian countries like Korea where it's viewed as a modern version ondol heating. However, those films are semi-permanent, meaning that they need be changed after a certain period of use and are not widely available everywhere.

Transparent heating film
Transparent heating films are a variant of the basic heating films but based on a different architecture. It consists of a thin and flexible polymer film with a conductive optical coating. See Transparent heating film