For a comfortable room temperature in new and old buildings.

Variotherm Skirting Heating System

Efficient heating

A Skirting Heating Systems can be installed quickly – in new buildings or during renovations. They are installed just above the floor on the interior side of exterior walls. A gentle warm air curtain builds up in a short time, circulating along cold surfaces. It shields the cold from outside and warms the cool wall. The result: Radiant Heat ensures a pleasantly warm room climate.

Room with floor-to-ceiling windows and green skirting heating along the glass front.

Elegant.

The coverings of the Skirting Heating System are available in more than 200 RAL colors or can be designed according to individual preferences.

Noticeably comfortable.

The energy-saving and high-performance Skirting Heating Systems are appealing in design and elegantly adapt to all room conditions.

Noticeably comfortable.

The energy-saving and powerful Skirting Heating Systems are appealing in design and elegantly adapt to all room conditions.

One system - many advantages

Skirting Heating Systems quickly create a warm air curtain along cold walls. Due to the radiant heat, the room quickly reaches the desired temperature. Depending on the design, rooms become comfortably warm after 15 to 30 minutes. Skirting Heating can also be installed retroactively.

Your Advantages

✅ Skirting Heating warms up quickly – easily controllable
✅ Prevents mold and damp walls 
✅ Heating pipes run invisibly within the casing 
✅ Elegant in appearance – flexible in design 
✅ Can be installed retroactively

Individual in design and discreet in appearance. The skirting heating adapts everywhere and integrates into the interior design. With its individual cladding, the Delta skirting heating can be chosen in over 200 RAL colors.

Your advantages

✅ Elegant in appearance 
✅ Flexible in design – diverse cladding options 
✅ Sustainable heating – low heating water temperatures 
✅ Ideal for a renovation 
✅ Made in Austria 

Skirting Heating Systems can be installed in both new buildings and old buildings, as well as in listed buildings. If there are damp exterior walls or large glass surfaces with a parapet height of 16–30 cm, a skirting heating is the perfect solution: its warm air curtain prevents mold formation.

Your advantages

✅ Extraordinary projects can be realized 
✅ Different product variants – depending on the required performance 
✅ In renovations, existing risers can be used for supply 
✅ Variotherm supports you in planning 
✅ Perfect for a heating renovation

Skirting heating systems quickly create a warm air curtain along cold walls. Due to the radiant heat, the room quickly reaches the desired temperature. Depending on the design, rooms become comfortably warm after 15 to 30 minutes. Skirting heating can also be installed retroactively.

Your advantages

✅ Skirting heating warms up quickly – easily adjustable 
✅ Prevents mold and damp walls 
✅ Heating pipes run invisibly within the casing 
✅ Elegant in appearance – flexible in design 
✅ Can be installed retroactively

Individual in design and discreet in appearance. The skirting heating adapts everywhere and integrates into the interior design. With its individual cladding, the Delta skirting heating can be chosen in over 200 RAL colors.

Your advantages

✅ Elegant in appearance
✅ Flexible in design – diverse cladding options
✅ Sustainable heating – low heating water temperatures
✅ Ideal for a renovation
✅ Made in Austria 

Skirting Heating Systems can be installed in both new buildings and old buildings, as well as in listed buildings. If there are damp exterior walls or large glass surfaces with a parapet height of 16–30 cm, a Skirting Heating is the perfect solution: its warm air curtain prevents mold formation.

Your advantages

✅ Extraordinary projects can be realized 
✅ Different product variants – depending on the required performance 
✅ In renovations, existing risers can be used for supply 
✅ Variotherm supports you in planning 
✅ Perfect for a heating renovation

Feeling good has good reasons.

Fast. Protective. Individual.

The quick Heating

Skirting Heating Systems can be quickly installed anywhere, even during renovations! Due to their low water content, Skirting Heating is extremely responsive and creates the conditions for a thoroughly comfortable room climate.

The shielding Heating

Cold exterior walls and cool glass surfaces represent potential cold bridges: Skirting Heating Systems create a warm air curtain, reliably shield cold surfaces, and can thus effectively contribute to the prevention of mold formation.

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Where can the Skirting Heating be used?

Whether in offices, private homes, or medical facilities - the Skirting Heating feels comfortable everywhere.

Renovation

Gentle Renovation

Individual Room Renovation

Listed Buildings

Historical Building Fabric

New building

Brick

Aerated concrete (Ytong)

Timber construction

Modular construction

Special solutions

Bench Heating in Churches

In Front of Large Glass Surfaces

Medical Facilities

Dry walls thanks to Skirting Heating

Damp walls tend to develop mold. 
A skirting heating can prevent mold on the walls. Because: It regularly warms the entire wall surface. 
The installation of a skirting heating is also possible during renovations.

Our tip: 
A good external insulation can prevent damp walls and consequently mold formation. 
In less well-insulated houses, keep the exterior wall free of furniture. 
This way, you avoid damp walls.

This is how skirting heating heats

The heating elements are the technical heart of the Variotherm Skirting Heating: a copper pipe with attached aluminum fins. Warm water flows through the copper pipe, which heats the fins. The heat is emitted through a physical reaction over the wall, this is the Coandã effect:

A warm air curtain forms along the walls. Warm, rising air always moves upwards along cold surfaces (e.g., exterior walls or large glass surfaces). A vacuum forms between the airflow and the surface, allowing the heat to rise along the surface.

Thus, the wall becomes a heat source. At the same time, the cold from outside is shielded. 

Where is a Skirting Heating installed?

Along cold wall and glass surfaces, Variotherm Skirting Heating Systems quickly create a warm air curtain. The models, available in over 200 RAL colors, also look good. 
Skirting Heating is installed within the room on the exterior walls. And this for two reasons: On one hand, they comfortably warm the room, and on the other hand, they can prevent condensation from forming on cold wall areas. Thus, the wall remains dry. 

The Skirting Heating can be operated with both central heating systems and low temperature systems.

How a cold wall becomes a wall with Radiant Heat.

Infrared images demonstrate the effect of the Skirting Heating System. Within a few minutes, a warm air curtain is formed. 

This shields against the cold and warms cool walls.

Individual planning

We not only deliver high-quality heating and cooling systems, but also plan each project individually – house by house, room by room, precisely according to our comfort criteria. Thanks to precise heating and cooling load calculations, we ensure maximum efficiency and optimal comfort. 

This creates a tailor-made solution that perfectly fits your project – for a pleasant indoor climate all year round.

Floor plan of an office building with marked skirting heating systems and distributors

Tested and approved.

In addition, the tested and practically proven system is awarded with seals of quality and excellence.

Classic. Delta.

The heating elements specially developed by Variotherm are the technical heart of the Skirting Heating System. 
Highly efficient in performance. Optimized in heat output.

Detailed view of two copper-aluminum heating elements with a finned structure

The substructure

The Skirting Heating System Classic and Delta can be effortlessly installed on all finished plastered walls, wood panels, niches, wall projections, or window sills.

The heating element

The heating elements are the technical heart of the Variotherm Trench Heating Systems and Skirting Heating Systems and were specially developed for this purpose. They operate highly efficiently and are optimal in heat output.

The heating elements consist of a copper pipe ø 18 × 0.5 mm (DIN EN 12 449) with aluminum fins 56 × 78 mm. These aluminum fins are corrugated, resulting in an enlarged surface area and thus greater heat output. This ultimately leads to lower flow temperatures and saves energy during operation.

Through the special production process, the pipe and the aluminum fins are connected. This makes them particularly powerful.

Classic skirting heating

Individuality in a freely designable form.

The Classic system consists of the heating elements and brackets. Individual coverings can be realized according to your wishes.

Structure:

1 - Bracket

2 - Heating element

3 - e.g. wooden covering

Delta skirting heating

The extremely discreet Delta skirting heating adapts visually like a chameleon to all walls. Over 200 RAL colors fulfill almost every design wish for the metal cladding. In the Delta system, the cladding is included.

Structure:

1 - Bracket

2 - Heating element

3 - Metal cladding

Simple and quick to install

The Skirting Heating System can be effortlessly installed on all finished plastered walls, wood panels, niches, wall projections, or window sills. The installation can be carried out by one person: screw the brackets to the wall and insert the heating elements. Then connect the heating elements and attach the casing. Done.

Installation of Skirting Heating

Dimensioning of the Skirting Heating System

In addition to choosing the right heating system, information on room size, room height, door and window sizes, building material components, and thermal resistance is important for the dimensioning of the Skirting Heating System. When planning power outlets, make sure they are located above the Skirting Heating. We recommend positioning power outlets approximately 350 mm from the finished floor surface.

The dimensioning of the Skirting Heating System depends on:

- the flow temperature 
- the required output 
- the possible installation length

The crucial factor is planning the maximum flow temperature of the Skirting Heating. Only then will the room be comfortable. We recommend setting the design temperature no higher than 60 °C. Otherwise, the fin temperature will exceed the temperature of dust smoldering – this can lead to unhealthy air.

The optimal flow temperature of the Skirting Heating is between 50 and 55 °C.

 
 
 

Frequently Asked Questions

Warm water flows through a copper pipe with aluminum fins in the skirting heating system. The Coanda effect creates a gentle warm air curtain along the wall, shielding cold surfaces and providing radiant heat.

A skirting heating can be used in new buildings or existing ones, in historic buildings, or even as bench heating in churches. It is also ideally suited for medical facilities or in front of large glass surfaces with a parapet height of 16-30 cm. Learn more about the individual skirting heating.

  • Rapid warming: Rooms are noticeably warm after about 15–30 minutes.  
  • Prevention of damp walls and mold – through even wall temperature distribution.  
  • Flexible cladding (wood, metal, in many RAL colors).  
  • Retrofit possible – can also be used in existing buildings.  
  • Potential savings: Skirting Heating System can reduce heating costs by up to 25%.