Heating options for home gym/garage

Wh1skeyjack

Hi,

I'm in the process of building a new 2 storey garage, incorporating a home office and a gym. It's detached from the main house which is on mains gas for heating. It's not easy to run a gas line over to the garage, so I was wondering what the best option would be? Size will be around 100m2 (5m x 10m footprint)

Options as I see them are:

1. Pure electric - probably be expensive
2. Gas boiler - will have to dig a trench and run about 50m of gas pipe across lawn and hardscaping
3. Heat pump - don't know how suitable this would be
4. Solid fuel option?

Any suggestions gratefully received!

Wearb

Oil?

Though if building from scratch it would be possibly to bring it to a standard suitable for heat pump.

Wh1skeyjack

Would prefer not to go the oil route, the garage is in an awkward place to run a pipe to and the price of oil is only going to go one way. I am thinking heat pump as I intend have it well insulated. Perhaps a small one would be suitable?

10-10-20

In this day-in-age, if there is a gas supply locally then there is very little justification in suggesting oil?

You're going to want (almost) instantaneous heat for an occasional room, so - in my opinion - a mini-split heat pump (think wall-mounted AC unit)... or drag that gas line over.

And you could suppliment that with IR panels to achieve a targeted heating solution while the HP gets up to speed.

Wh1skeyjack

The gym and garage will be on the bottom floor, the home office on the top. I want to have a shower in there too (so I can use the home office as a guest bedroom if required) so I'll need a water tank heating solution. The gym/garage doesn't need to be too warm. Maybe heat pump plus underfloor?

Phil.x

Storage heating?