ᐅ Full Basement for Hobby and Office – Underfloor Heating, Electric Radiator, or Infrared Heating?
Created on: 13 Feb 2021 12:30
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SaschaL
Hello everyone,
What would you do?
I'm currently planning a house with an 88 sqm (947 sq ft) full basement, 2.60 m (8.5 ft) high in the shell stage.
4 rooms
- Hobby room (approx. 30 sqm / 323 sq ft) – will be a home cinema
- Utility room (approx. 12 sqm / 129 sq ft)
- Laundry/housekeeping room (approx. 13 sqm / 140 sq ft)
- Office (approx. 20 sqm / 215 sq ft)
- Storage (approx. 13 sqm / 140 sq ft)
The sizes might vary slightly depending on needs, but the hobby room fits as planned.
Now the question is, how to heat it?
- Underfloor heating – the offer is around 13,500 euros
- Electric radiators – offer about 400 euros each x 3 = 1,200 euros
- Infrared heating – no offer yet, but presumably similar cost to electric radiators (?)
My thoughts:
- The hobby room will likely only be used for a relatively few hours – maybe 10 hours per week maximum.
- The office is planned for occasional work – so not a full home office, especially since I still have space upstairs at the moment… it could also become a gym or something in the future, so rather multifunctional. Definitely not a permanent living space.
So I’m thinking of going with proper underfloor heating – but for that money you can do a lot of electric heating 😉 I don’t know much about this, but isn’t underfloor heating so slow that you’d have to keep it running almost constantly in the basement for just a few hours of use per week? You wouldn’t just decide to watch a film and have it warm immediately, right?
I’m leaning toward the infrared solution. What do you think?
What would you do?
I'm currently planning a house with an 88 sqm (947 sq ft) full basement, 2.60 m (8.5 ft) high in the shell stage.
4 rooms
- Hobby room (approx. 30 sqm / 323 sq ft) – will be a home cinema
- Utility room (approx. 12 sqm / 129 sq ft)
- Laundry/housekeeping room (approx. 13 sqm / 140 sq ft)
- Office (approx. 20 sqm / 215 sq ft)
- Storage (approx. 13 sqm / 140 sq ft)
The sizes might vary slightly depending on needs, but the hobby room fits as planned.
Now the question is, how to heat it?
- Underfloor heating – the offer is around 13,500 euros
- Electric radiators – offer about 400 euros each x 3 = 1,200 euros
- Infrared heating – no offer yet, but presumably similar cost to electric radiators (?)
My thoughts:
- The hobby room will likely only be used for a relatively few hours – maybe 10 hours per week maximum.
- The office is planned for occasional work – so not a full home office, especially since I still have space upstairs at the moment… it could also become a gym or something in the future, so rather multifunctional. Definitely not a permanent living space.
So I’m thinking of going with proper underfloor heating – but for that money you can do a lot of electric heating 😉 I don’t know much about this, but isn’t underfloor heating so slow that you’d have to keep it running almost constantly in the basement for just a few hours of use per week? You wouldn’t just decide to watch a film and have it warm immediately, right?
I’m leaning toward the infrared solution. What do you think?
SaschaL schrieb:
My thoughts:
- The hobby room will likely only be used for a relatively small number of hours—maybe a maximum of 10 per week.
- The office is intended for occasional desk work, so it’s not a full-time home office, especially since I still have space upstairs... it could also potentially become a gym or something similar—so more multifunctional. Probably not a room for constant use.How do you envision this? With underfloor heating and its slow response time, you’d need to turn it on about 4 hours in advance... does your schedule work with this 4-hour lead time? Exercise wouldn’t be the problem. I would probably go with infrared heating.Will my plan to run it 4 hours in advance work? How do I imagine it?
Well, I said I want to choose between these three options and, for the reasons you mentioned, I’m leaning toward infrared—I just wanted to hear your opinions. I’m glad you see it similarly to me, even though you act like I said I absolutely want underfloor heating in the basement 😉
SaschaL schrieb:
I don’t know much, but isn’t underfloor heating so slow that you would almost have to keep it running continuously in the basement for the few hours per week? So you can’t just decide to watch a movie on a whim in one hour, right?
I tend to prefer the infrared solution. What do you think?
Well, I said I want to choose between these three options and, for the reasons you mentioned, I’m leaning toward infrared—I just wanted to hear your opinions. I’m glad you see it similarly to me, even though you act like I said I absolutely want underfloor heating in the basement 😉
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