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Open-plan living room with a sofa, a round coffee table, a timber staircase and a kitchen beyond

Radiant heating specialists since 1995

Radiant heating for floors and ceilings.

Electric radiant heating for ceilings, floors and specialist spaces. Ron helps you choose a suitable system, with specified quotes and installation guidance for your electrician.

Request a heating quote Call 0400 709 000

Heating systems

Heating to suit your floor, ceiling and project.

Start with where the heat will go. The right system depends on the ceiling or floor finish, and whether the room is part of a new build or a renovation.

Rows of black carbon heating film fixed across a ceiling before the plasterboard goes on

Ceiling heating

Safe-t-FLEX carbon film sits above the plasterboard and turns the ceiling into a gentle radiant heater. Nothing is visible once the ceiling is finished.

  • Suits new builds, extensions and ceilings being replaced
  • Controls are specified to suit your rooms and project
  • No wall heaters or floor space taken up
Ceiling carbon film Ask about ceiling heating

Looking for ceiling-mounted panels instead? They are a separate product, listed under commercial and specialist spaces below.

A roll of carbon heating film being laid across a prepared floor

Floor heating

Choose by floor finish. Carbon film and heating cable are different systems, each suited to a different build-up.

Commercial and specialist spaces

These are separate products from carbon film. They mount on or below the ceiling, high in large spaces, or on a wall.

Ask about panels or cassettes

How it works

See where carbon-film heating goes.

Carbon film is a thin heating element hidden in the ceiling or under the floor. It warms people, floors and furnishings directly, rather than relying on moving warm air around the room.

Cross-section of ceiling carbon-film heating Side view of a ceiling: 1 insulation between the ceiling joists, 2 ceiling joists, 3 Safe-t-FLEX carbon film across the underside of the joists, 4 plasterboard ceiling below the film. Radiant warmth travels down into the room. Roof space Room below 1 2 3 4
Side view of a heated ceiling. Simplified from CBS's installation slideshow.

Ceiling heating

  1. Insulation between the joists keeps the warmth directed down.
  2. Ceiling joists carry the film across their underside.
  3. Safe-t-FLEX carbon film, the thin heating element.
  4. Plasterboard ceiling, finished as normal.

Because the film goes in before the plasterboard, ceiling heating is planned into new builds, extensions or ceiling replacements.

Original illustration of carbon film across ceiling joists with insulation above
From CBS's original installation slideshow.
Ask Ron whether ceiling heating suits your project
Exploded view of carbon-film heating under a timber or laminate floor From top to bottom: 1 timber or laminate floor, 2 polythene sheet, 3 Safe-t-FLEX carbon film, 4 foam underlay, 5 subfloor. 5 4 3 2 1
Exploded view of a floating timber or laminate floor. Simplified from CBS's installation slideshow. Carpet uses its own build-up.

Under timber floors

  1. Timber or laminate floor, laid as a floating floor.
  2. Polythene sheet, or the flooring maker's recommended layer.
  3. Safe-t-FLEX carbon film, the thin heating element.
  4. Foam underlay insulates the film from below.
  5. Subfloor: a level concrete slab or boarded timber floor.

The film is thin and laid dry, with no screed or glue. Ron confirms the build-up for your floor finish.

Carbon heating film laid across a floor while its connections are made
Carbon film on a floor before the finished flooring is laid.
Ask Ron about film under your floor

Projects

Experience across homes, facilities and specialist spaces.

A selection of CBS projects. Each shows CBS's role: "Supplied" means CBS provided the heating materials; "Supplied and installed" means CBS also carried out the installation.

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Aged-care facilities across Western Australia

Radiant ceiling heating supplied and installed in 82 WA aged-care facilities, over a period of 26 years.

Supplied and installed

980 cassettes

Griffith University student accommodation

Ceiling-mounted radiant heating cassettes supplied for student accommodation.

Supplied

4 spas

Luxury spas in Bhutan

Carbon film supplied and installed, with an installer travelling to the project.

Supplied and installed

  • Hot yoga studios, Queensland East Coast. Radiant heating cassettes supplied to Bikram and Hot Fusion studios. Supplied
  • Endeavour Allergen Free School, south of Perth. Two successive ceiling-heating installations. Ceiling heating

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Ron Carterton of CBS Heating

Meet Ron

Ron Carterton

Ron has worked hands-on with electric radiant heating since CBS began in 1995, and enquiries to CBS come straight to him.

He will ask about your building, the rooms and the finishes, help you choose a suitable system and prepare a fully specified installation quote that a qualified electrician can work from.

Call Ron on 0400 709 000 About CBS

How a project runs

  1. Tell Ron about the property

    Share the rooms, floor finishes and heating you have in mind.

  2. Receive a specified quote

    Ron specifies the system, materials and controls for your project.

  3. Arrange supply

    CBS supplies the selected heating materials.

  4. Installation

    A qualified electrician installs the system with Ron’s guidance.

Local installation arrangements can be discussed where available.

Where CBS works

Focus areas

  • Perth and South West WAIncluding projects supplied as far as Esperance.
  • Sydney
  • Melbourne
  • Tamworth, NSW

Underfloor heating in Perth and South West WA

CBS supplies four electric underfloor systems, chosen by floor finish: ultra-thin Safe-t-WIRE cable where floor height is limited, under-tile cable in the screed beneath new tiles, carbon film under carpet or floating timber, and electric in-slab cable for a new concrete slab. Ron specifies the system, quantities and controls for each project.

CBS products can be supplied Australia-wide, with a specified quote and installation guide. Installation arrangements are separate: they depend on the location and the project, and are discussed case by case.

Tell us about your heating project.

Not sure which system suits your property? Ron can help.

For example, Blacktown NSW or 2148.

New build or renovation? Which rooms or floor finish?

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