We’re often asked if we can provide different colours for our radiant panels and the answer is always yes we can provide any RAL colour. Having provided brown panels to make meerkats feel more at home in their enclosure, dark grey wall panels to suit the rustic look of a building as well as black […]
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Bespoke Multi Service Rafts
Why be limited to one lighting product when we can tailor a panel to suit any luminaire! We’ve always had a penchant for the bespoke side of radiant heating and nothing has altered in terms of our approach to multi service panels. Ceiling spaces are sometimes a minefield in terms of co-ordination with different services […]
Every Little Helps – Tesco Project Images
We’ve finished our panel install at one of the UK’s largest superstores Back in 2013, we were pleased to receive an order for our heating panels to be installed into a brand new Tesco store at Wisbech in Cambridgeshire. We’ve recently been back to the store to take some images of the finished article…….. The […]
Radiant panels take up too much ceiling space
Oh no they don’t! If ceiling space is limited which these days is often the case, we can take the panels away from the middle of the ceiling and put them on the perimeter away from lights and other services. Starting at a minimum width of 150mm and being able to go right around the […]
Do Radiant Heating Panels need to be mounted above peoples heads to be effective?
The answer, in short is no! Solray Panels can be positioned either in the centre of the room, or at the perimeter, along one or more walls. When positioned in the centre of the room, the radiant heating from the Solray Panels will directly warm the floor below, and any objects including people. This can […]
Construction grows at fastest pace for 20 years
Provided by construction enquirer… Contractors are beginning to turn down tendering opportunities in the face of growing workloads and skills shortages. The latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors survey for the first quarter of 2014 found members reporting the highest upturn in workloads since the survey began 20 years ago. Private housing, commercial and industrial […]
MOJ Approved Prison Radiant Panels
Anti-ligature heating for safer cells from Solray We’ve been at the forefront of radiant reading for over 70 years often providing bespoke heating solutions for bespoke environments. Over the last 40 years, our skilled workforce have been manufacturing anti-ligature units for mental health units and prisons throughout the UK but in 2008, the Ministry of […]
Are you a bibliophile??
Solray provide heating for Libraries in Birmingham, Swansea & London In 2013, we’ve been involved in no less than three library projects. The first being the refurbishment of Sutton Coldfield Library in Birmingham. Initially alongside M&E consultants One Creative Environments, Solray put together a scheme to satisfy the heating needs of the award winning building […]
‘Every Little Helps’ – Solray secure Tesco project
We’re installing our heating panels in one of the UK’s largest supermarket chains Working closely with Tesco and design consultants URS, we’ve come up with a solution to provide comfortable heating to the checkout staff and customers. On this particular project, the main panel will be 54m long to serve the entire checkout zone with […]
Church Heating Radiant Panel Design
Our Senior designer Marc Bowen looking @ the detailed design of a church in Oxfordshire We’ve been heating Churches for as long as we can remember offering a more discrete, effective heating option than the traditional Gas fired heating or radiators. It’s often difficult to design a heating solution that meets the needs of this […]