I am moving one of my studios, and I get to build it from scratch (within budget, of course). At both studios I have both ceiling Infrared Heating Panels and forced air. On relies more heavily on forced air (less panels) and one relies more heavily on the panels (weak HVAC). The one using the panels has a floor that gets REALLY hot (it is luxury vinyl plank). So I veto’d vinyl flooring in my new studio……until I talked to about 20 flooring professionals who said because of the humidity factor Vinyl is all they would recommend. Bamboo and wood would expand and contract too much. Vinyl is waterproof and durable and will last a long time. I have had multiple studio owners tell me to NOT get various “hot yoga studio” specific flooring because the corners of the tiles always peel up. Plus, I like the wood floor look. So I am stuck on flooring. I do like the forced air studio – it gets much hotter than the one that relies more on infrared panels. That one just never feels hot to me, even though the floor burns my feet. But sometimes people say it is hard to breath and the air is heavy in the forced air studio. So I am stuck on heat. If I did just HVAC I bet the vinyl floor wouldn’t get as hot. But if I do just HVAC I’m worried about the breathability of the air.
Basically, I am asking other studio owners or knowledgable people, what combination of big ticket items did you go with? What type of heating? If infrared, what make/models and how many for what size room? What type of flooring do you have? What would you do differently?
