Heating in shed, summer house

Debt_free_soon_2

I hope I'm posting in the right place, if not please could you move it to the relevant place?

We have just bought a wooden shed, summer house thing to use as a home office. It's thick wood & designed for this purpose. We will be insulating the walls, ceiling & floor with Kingspan or similar but need to get some kind of heater otherwise it just won't get used.


My question is what type of heater would be best? Oil filled radiator, convection heater, fan heater or something else.


The "shed" will be used roughly 9-5 Mon-Fri. So it needs to be effective but also economical to run.


Thanks! :-)

Gloomendoom

All the electric heaters will be as economical to run as each other. My preference would be for the convection heater as they are quiet and quick to warm up.

Debt_free_soon_2

Gloomendoom wrote: »

All the electric heaters will be as economical to run as each other. My preference would be for the convection heater as they are quiet and quick to warm up.

Thanks for your response, one on offer for £30 in Lidl next week that looks pretty good, looks like I may get that one.

missile

I bought a Dyson fan heater. Not cheap, but so much more effective than other heaters we have used in the past.

Jaynne

If you plan to use this long term an air source heater might work out cheaper in the long run. I think they're about a third the cost of regular electric heaters but they're a couple of hundred pounds to buy.

sunshinetours

I agree with above that a more expensive outlay on something different may give you better long term return. Not sure how well heat pump type heaters work in very very low temperatures though

What I would say is insulate well and you won't need much heating input anyway. Wood is a good insulator and log cabins or thick wooden buildings can be very effective at keepng heat in.

Ours isn't particularly thick at around 22mm finished wood outside, 50mm insulation and then pine clad inside bit it keeps in heat very well and you certainly won't need a highly rated heater. Make sure you insulate the floor as well as walls and roof and then get a thick underlay on floor