Why an insulated garden office is not just for winter

If you’re weighing up the advantages of an insulated garden office, then allow us to help. With over a decade of experience hand-crafting stunning garden rooms for a range of needs and budgets, we’re experts in creating the ideal garden office environment.

According to recent stats, 40% of us Brits now work from home at least part, if not all of the time. So, if you missed the first wave of insulated garden office builds and have been ‘making do’ with the spare room since lockdown, then it might be time to finally embrace the WFH revolution and create an insulated garden office in which to truly love doing what you do.

Here we’ll talk you through the key considerations when choosing a garden office and why insulation is up there with it’s most important features for year-round use. *Spoiler*. Insulation is more crucial to 365 days of comfort than you might think.

Insulate! Garden office rule No.1.

Contrary to many garden building companies, we don’t see insulation as an added extra, we see it as an absolute necessity. In fact, you’ll find high-grade insulation fitted as standard in every Eden. Why? Along with our premium wall construction, and high-grade double-glazed widows and doors, an insulated garden office is one that will retain essential heat, creating a comfortable working environment, even in the coldest months. However, the benefits of quality insulation don’t suddenly stop in the Spring.

An insulated garden office is summer ready

Insulation probably isn’t the first thing on your mind when you think of the British summertime. But don’t forget how hot it can get. On 19th July 2022, the mercury topped 40.3˚C in Lincolnshire, while London reached a sticky 40˚C. In fact, 2022 was the hottest year to-date in the UK, with 2023 being the second warmest since records began.

So, what’s insulation got to do with it? A high-quality insulation system works both ways by keeping the room cool in summer too. Aside from being uncomfortable, working in high temperatures can cause tiredness, make it hard to stay focused and lead to poor decision making and mistakes. Even worse, heat can negatively impact health and wellbeing, triggering fainting and dizziness.

If your insulated garden office is also a multi-use space, doubling up as a garden gym, then overheating could be an even great of a risk to your health. Therefore, quality insulated garden office is vital to ensure that you stay safe and comfortable, come rain, and especially come shine.

An insulated garden office saves you money on heating

Quality heating is another essential we believe that insulated garden offices must have. Therefore, panel heaters (Eden Essence) or underfloor heating (Eden Classic) come included as standard in the price. So, unlike working in the house in winter when you keep the heating on low to keep costs down, you’ll feel happy to heat your compact well-insulated garden office knowing that the insulation is working hard to maintain a toasty temperature.

Even in Spring, when temperatures can be unpredictable. You’ll be happy to stick the heating on, guilt free. So, no matter what the British weather has to throw at your insulated garden office, you won’t need to dress like the Michelin Man each day to avoid feeling the chill.

An insulated garden office is built to last

By keeping the inside warm, dry, and protected from the elements, with its attractive Douglas Fir cladding, you’ll find your insulated garden office is resistant to unpleasant and potentially damaging damp. Helping your investment last a lot longer. One of the many reasons that an Eden is guaranteed for at least 10 years.

Dampening out external sound

With quality insulation, garden offices benefit from a buffering effect, cancelling out some levels of external noise. Of course, if you’re likely to experience a lot of distracting sounds from the outside world, like living next door to a school, garage or a busy road, then we’d highly recommend considering a couple of neat sound-shielding upgrades. Our premium soundproof insulation upgrade includes an acoustic treatment that can be added to your glazing, helping to increase and maintain the sanctuary and serenity of your private insulated garden office.

Insulated garden office – the science bit

We’re not just talking about a roll of cheap wool or fiberglass loft insulation here.

• High-end hard polyisocyanurate insulation; polyisoc-what? This thick, rigid thermal board comes fitted in the floors and walls of all our garden rooms
• Energy-efficient multifoil; we include a cutting-edge two-in-one insulating breather membrane into our roofs. Providing effective insulation, preventing condensation and reflecting excess heat away from your building
• EPDM rubber membrane; An extremely durable rubber layer is also fitted to your insulated garden office’s roof, helping to maintain a comfortable ambient temp inside.

Temperature control: other insulated garden office considerations

As well as finding a quality and reliable supplier trusted to use superior insulation, like Eden, there are a few other things worth noting to maintain the temperature of your insulated garden office.

• Location; the position of the room in relation to the sun and glazing. A south-facing insulated garden room with lots of glazing will naturally heat up more. If you can’t adjust the position, then you may want to consider integrated blinds or adding some shrubbery to help protect the room from excess sun glare
• How do you like your heat? Everything about your new insulated garden office should be set up to suit you. That means, it’s worth thinking about how cosy you like your working space to be. If you’re a hot bod, or using the space for a gym, consider a combi-air-conditioning system which both heats and cools. Alternatively, if you like toasty toes then underfloor heating may be the option for you
• How warm is your work? It might sound odd, but it you work with lots of big servers and computers then you will find that your room will get hotter quicker than most. Consider whether extraction fans, additional cooling systems or indeed more opening windows might be better suited to help you keep your well-insulated garden office at a constant comfortable temperature.

An insulated garden office ready for you

With Eden, your insulated garden office dreams come unlimited. No rear access? No problem. We build on-site from scratch so there’s no large prefab sheets in sight to be shipped in. Eden’s flexible options mean we can design around the space you have. Whether there’s barely enough room to swing a cat or you’re looking at an irregular shaped plot, we’ll iron out any of your concerns in our complimentary site visit before we let our expert designers work their magic.

From quality flooring and panelled or plastered interiors painted in the colour of your choice, to superior electrics fitted, including WIFI and integrated spotlights, we make it our job to take care of everything your insulated garden office needs, as standard. Want more? Have more! An ensuite bathroom, an office kitchenette, premium wraparound decking. You name it, we can make it happen.

Whatever you decide, you can be sure that your perfectly insulated garden office will be warm in winter, or cool in summer, and up and running ready for you to enjoy from the moment we leave. Speak to our team and let’s make your garden office dreams a reality.