under floor heating Archives | The Garden Room Guide

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Under floor heating is becoming a popular feature in garden office and studio specifications, and it offers many benefits over traditional types of garden office heating such as convector heaters or oil filled radiators.

While convector heaters and oil filled radiators heat a garden office well and quickly, as the heat rises you can end up with cold feet! Under floor heating means the whole room is evenly heated and walls are clear from radiators.

The under floor heating used in garden offices is a mat system as opposed to the hot water piping found in ‘proper’ houses. For garden offices with laminate or wooden floors, a foil under floor heating mat is used, this mat contains heating wires which when used in conjunction with floor insulation heat up quickly and efficiently.

Under floor heating systems come with programmable timers which means that you can specify the time the heating comes on and goes off, you can also specify the temperature setting.

Economical to run an average sized garden office with under floor heating costs around 50 pence per day in the winter.

Under floor heating is a standard feature on garden offices by Garden Haze and Vivid Green .

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Vivid Green designs modern garden buildings with particular attention given to their environmental impact, and as such buildings are designed to maximise solar gain, have high levels of thermal insulation and minimise any waste.

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Vivid Green offer two standard designs The Penthouse and The Winterhouse but also offer a bespoke design service which allows the customer to tailor their garden building to their needs and tastes, for instance you may have a difficult site or want a building with more than one use such as a workshop with separate store area.

The garden buildings offered by Vivid Green are built with SIP’s – structural insulated panels which is a very efficient form of building both thermally speaking and at the speed they can be put together – which is a saving in embodied energy, typically garden buildings are installed in less than eight days on site.

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On top of the SIP’s framework Vivid Green’s buildings are well specified with high quality windows and doors with triple point locks and glazed with performance double glazed units. There is a wide choice of external cladding such as cedar, larch or Douglas fir which are all fitted with quality stainless steel fittings.

Vivid Green’s garden buildings are suitable for year round use and are fitted with thermostatically controlled under floor heating which they estimate costs less than 50p a day to run during the winter, this type of heating is ideal as it allows you to place furniture where you want rather than make allowances for wall mounted heaters.

The Penthouse garden building starts at £7,790 plus VAT for a 4.25m² footprint, for more information visit Vivid Green at www.vividgreen.co.uk/

For more photos of Vivid Green garden buildings see our Flickr site.