I bought an infrared fireplace for my birds room. The manufacturer said NO teflon, PFOA, or PTFE in it. So I THINK it is okay. But does anyone know of any air quality sensors that I can get to test this?
Are there any heaters you recommend for your ekkie that you've found to be safe?
The infrared heaters are safe the radiant heat panel heat object instead of using a blower but both are the same technology pretty much except the fireplace will have a internal deflector to radiate the heat and most use a metal blower to get heat out. They both do great in heating up a space, much better then other space heaters even at same wattage. Yes I do realize being a engineer 1500w is 1500w of heat out, but something with the way infrared works just seem to do better in heating a larger space and quicker overall and way more evenly.
Infrared heater uses glass heating elements and heating coil doesn't have a coating on it as sealed from dust getting in, so they don't need to coat heating element with teflon, PFOA, or PTFE like regular space heaters, as they use the coating to prevent dust from building up on the element, which is a extra cost, no infrared heater that I tested, or know of uses teflon, PFOA, or PTFE. All objects emit and absorb infrared heat, which is part of the electromagnetic spectrum with a frequency below visible light. Hotter objects will radiate more of this heat. This is the basis of the technology for most quartz heaters.
So short answer it is safe to use, so long if you get the ones with a metal chassis internally and not plastic, then you won't have to worry about the plastics off gassing. Even through the plastics are not in direct contact with the heating elements, I don't trust plastic casing period when it comes to heaters. Go with a 6 tube version they are much better then the 4 tubes. With any heater always run outside for a hour, or so can burn off any factory chemicals that was used during assembly.
