Garden Offices: Beating the Cold
Working from a cheap log cabin in February is miserable. Your hands freeze and the WiFi drops out. Here is why an office needs to be built like a house.
The Winter Blackout
You thought working from the garden would be brilliant. You ordered a flat-pack log cabin.
In June, it was great.
Then November hit.
Now, you are on a Zoom call wearing a heavy coat. You can see your breath. The WiFi drops out. You're too far from the house.
You give up. You end up back at the kitchen table. Your "office" becomes an expensive shed for the lawnmower.
A Shed is for Spades
The problem is the building.
Single-skin timber cabins aren't made for an 8-hour workday in winter. They don't hold heat. They let the damp in.
If you want to work out there, it needs to be built like a house.
The SIPs Solution
We don't use loose timber. We use SIPs.
It’s a solid block of insulation glued between two structural boards. We don't just throw up four walls. We insulate the floor slab. We insulate the roof.
We wrap the outside in a breather membrane. No damp.
Stick a small heater on for twenty minutes. It stays warm all day. You can actually take your coat off.
Hardwired for Work
A proper office needs proper power.
No running a flimsy extension lead out the back window. We dig a trench. We run an armoured cable from the house to a dedicated fuse board.
We hardwire the data cables straight in. Your video calls won't freeze.
Do It Once
Don't buy a summerhouse and pretend it's an office.
If you are going to work from home, build a proper room. Make it warm. Keep it dry. Actually use it.
Stop by the office at 17 Tweedale Road, Bournemouth, or call 07835 390845.
