How to Pick the Right Infrared Lamp for Your Bathroom
Let’s be honest: there is nothing worse than stepping out of a hot shower into a freezing cold bathroom. It’s a shock to the system. The trick to fixing this is getting your wattage right. See, infrared lamps don’t bother trying to heat up all the air in the room. Instead, they beam heat directly onto you. If you pick a lamp that’s too weak for your space, you’re just burning electricity and still shivering. Finding the right fit It mostly comes down to how much space you’re dealing with. If you’ve got a tiny powder room, something in the 250W to 500W range usually does the trick. But for those big master baths? You’ll want to look at 800W to 1200W. Higher wattage means the room warms up faster. If you live somewhere where the winters are brutal, that speed is everything. You want to feel that warmth the second you walk through the door. Built for the steam Bathrooms are wet. Damp. Steamy. We know that moisture kills electronics, so we use sealed quartz glass and waterproof gaskets. It keeps the steam out of the filament chamber so your lamp doesn’t just pop and die after a few months. Plus, we use standard connectors, so you can just swap them into most commercial fixtures without a headache. The “Hot Spot” Problem Here’s the thing about high wattage: it’s powerful. A 1200W lamp is great for speed, but it creates a very intense heat zone right underneath it. If you mount it too low, it’ll feel like you’re standing under a heat lamp at a buffet—way too hot. But if you put it too high, the heat loses its punch before it reaches you. You just have to find that sweet spot with your ceiling height. You want a nice, warm glow across the floor, not a scorching hotspot that makes you want to jump back.