The biggest mistake of my life was not getting heated flooring for my house.
- I had everything in place too.
The house had an old boiler system in the basement. All I needed to do was hook pipes to the boiler and then have that piping go throughout the floors. I was redoing the floors at the time too. Every room but the bathrooms were being redone. I looked at the cost and decided not to. I owned a boiler and it already provided adequate heat. What was the point of heated floors? Well, I changed from carpet to tile and felt how cold it got in the winter. The boiler is great but the heat rises naturally. My feet are freezing. I had to buy a bunch of area rugs and wear socks in the house. I also redid the bathroom floors and got heated flooring for those spaces to try it out. I love it. The bathrooms are so comfortable in the winter. It is nice having the heat at your feet. You naturally feel warmer. It is a quieter, cleaner, and more efficient way to heat. The rest of my house is just not as good now. I want to rip up the tile and start again. Sadly I can’t justify that. There is no way to do heated flooring without removing the floors either. So I am stuck until my floors wear out. The installation crew did a good job. I bet I am stuck with these floors for 15-20 years. That is a long time to not have heated flooring.