
Covered Patios. Workshops. Sunrooms. Real Warmth Where Central Heat Cannot Reach.
You have tried patio heaters before. Propane tanks. Refills. Tipping. The smell. Or bulky electric ones that blow lukewarm air across the yard.
Here is what actually differs about The Radiant Bar.
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Built for the Outdoors, Rated for the Weather.
IP55 waterproof aluminum housing. ETL certified. 30.5 inches long, 8 pounds. Wall or ceiling mount, adjustable 45 to 90 degrees. Carbon fiber element hits full heat in 1 second. 750W low, 1500W high. Silent, no fan. 9-hour programmable timer. Full remote. Runs about 25 cents an hour on high at the US average electric rate.
Mount it this weekend. Sit on your covered patio in January.
Mount It. Aim It. Warm the Patio Tonight.
Mount the bracket to a wall or ceiling beam — template included. Snap the bar into the bracket, adjust the angle. Plug it into a standard outdoor GFCI outlet. Press the remote. Warmth on your face in one second. No warmup, no fan noise, no fumes.
Real homeowners. Real covered patios. Real warmth on the same 1500 watts everyone else charges you for.
Homeowners. Renters. Caregivers. All had the same one room in the house that never got warm. Here is what happened when they stopped ignoring it.
"I had a tall propane patio heater on my covered deck. Every winter: refills, tipping, the smell, the tank hassle. Mounted The Radiant Bar under the pergola beam last October. Plug it in, press the remote, warmth on my face in one second. Zero refills all winter. Sold the propane unit on Craigslist."
"Detached garage workshop. Too big to heat with a tower heater and I do not want to blow sawdust everywhere with a fan. Mounted The Radiant Bar on the wall above my workbench. It warms me while I work — not the whole 400 sq ft shop. Uses a fraction of the power a shop heater would."
"Our three-season sunroom sat empty from November to March — the baseboard heat cannot keep up in there. Mounted The Radiant Bar on the wall above the couch. Reading a book in a wool throw with warmth on my face. It does not warm the whole sunroom, but it warms me, which is what I wanted."
Real Reviews From Real Customers










Sold my old propane patio heater. Not sorry.
I had a tall propane patio heater on my covered deck for years. Every winter the same routine: propane refills at the hardware store, tipping the whole rig if the wind picked up, the propane smell in my sinuses, the ugly mushroom shape blocking the view. Mounted The Radiant Bar under the pergola beam in October. Plug it in, press one button on the remote, warmth on my face immediately. Zero refills, zero smell, zero tipping. Uses about a quarter an hour of electricity on the high setting. Sold the propane heater on Craigslist for 60 bucks. That paid for the bracket hardware.

Austin cold snap. Warmed the covered patio through a January cold front.
Austin does not usually need heaters. Then February hits and we get a week of 32 degrees and my wife wants to sit outside anyway. Mounted The Radiant Bar under the pergola on our covered patio. Warmth on the face in one second, no wait. Sat outside in wool blankets during the cold snap and read a book. My old propane heater would have blown its flame out in that wind. Infrared does not care about wind because it does not heat air — it heats me. Bill for that week: about 14 bucks in electricity for four evenings of use. That is the whole review.

HVAC tech. Recommend this to every homeowner asking about patio heaters.
I install and repair HVAC for a living. People ask me about patio heating all the time. My answer is now: infrared, mounted overhead, IP55 rated. Reasons in order: carbon fiber element cycles cleanly, no glow plug like the old halogen units. IP55 means you can leave it out year-round under an eave. Wall-mount overhead means kids and pets cannot get burned. The 45-to-90 degree adjustable bracket points the heat exactly where people sit. And it is 1500W, same as a tower heater — no efficiency claims to fact-check. I bought one for my own covered deck a year ago. Zero issues. Bought a second one for my father-in-law.

Two properties. Mounted one at each.
We have a covered deck at our Bend house and a screened porch at our Sunriver cabin. Both were unusable from November to March unless we bundled up in blankets and shivered. Bought two Radiant Bars, one for each. Mounted overhead on the beams. Same product, different setups. One button on the remote and we have warmth on our faces. Sat on the cabin porch last weekend at 22F and watched the snow. Would not have been possible without this. Weight is only 8 pounds so mounting was easy. I did the Bend install alone.

Engineer. Measured surface temp with an IR thermometer. Numbers match the label.
I do not trust marketing copy. I aimed a Fluke IR thermometer at my face at various distances from the bar and logged the surface temperature over 30 days of use. At 6 feet directly under the bar (mounted on an 8-foot ceiling): my skin temperature rose from 68F ambient to about 86F within 60 seconds of turning it on. At 10 feet: about 78F. At 13 feet (the labeled range): about 73F, still noticeable. Beyond that, ambient. Power draw was a steady 1500W on high (measured with a Kill-a-Watt), which at Ohio's 15 cents per kWh is 22.5 cents per hour. Matches the label. Element cycles cleanly on ECO. Purchase vindicated.

My wife has MS. Sunroom is her favorite room. This made it usable in winter.
MS makes her hypersensitive to cold. Our three-season sunroom is her favorite place to read — south-facing windows, view of the yard — but the baseboard heat cannot keep up in November through March. I mounted The Radiant Bar on the wall above her reading chair. Warmth on her face in one second when she presses the remote. She stays in the sunroom for hours now during winter. She says it feels like the sun on her face. Not a small thing for someone who spent last winter mostly on the couch under blankets.
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Sign In to ContinueIt warms bodies and objects within 13 feet, not the air itself. So the whole covered patio does not get warmer, but the people sitting on it do. That is the entire point of infrared. If your patio seating area is within 13 feet of where you mount the bar, everyone in that zone feels warm on their face and skin. Air temperature does not change.
Propane heaters warm air, which the wind carries away. Infrared warms your skin directly, which the wind cannot carry away. That is why an infrared bar works in a mild breeze where a propane heater is useless. Also: no refills, no tanks, no smell, no tipping hazard. Just plug it in. About 25 cents an hour on high, which is a fraction of the ongoing cost of propane refills.
On a wall or ceiling, under an eave or overhang if outdoors, aimed at where people sit or stand. The mounting bracket adjusts 45 to 90 degrees so you can angle it downward. Mount it high enough to be out of reach (8+ feet) if kids or pets can access the area. Standard 120V outlet within cord range, preferably a GFCI outdoors.
IP55 rated — protected against dust and low-pressure water spray from any direction. Install it under a covered structure (eave, awning, pergola, patio ceiling) and it will survive rain and snow that blows under the cover. Do NOT install it in a spot exposed to direct rainfall. The aluminum housing does not rust.
Do not leave any 1500W heater running unattended. The Radiant Bar has a 9-hour timer specifically so you can set it and forget it for a defined window, then have it shut off. Use it when you are on the patio. Turn it off when you go inside.
Yes — that is one of the most common uses. Mount it on the wall or ceiling above your work area. It warms you at the workbench without wasting electricity heating a whole 400+ sq ft shop. Silent, no fan blowing dust around. Do not run it near solvents or flammable finishes.
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Another cold night is coming. You already know what it feels like.
Every 1500-watt heater makes the same heat. What differs about this one: infrared warms your face in one second, wall or ceiling mount keeps it out of the way, IP55 rating lets you leave it out year-round, silent operation, no propane. Mount it this weekend. Sit on your covered patio in January. Protected by our 30-day return window.


