The largest mistake of my life was not getting heated flooring for my house.
I had everything in the locale too.
The home had a seasoned boiler system in the basement. All I needed to do was hook pipes to the boiler plus then have that piping go throughout the floors. I was redoing the floors at the time too. Every room however the powder rooms were being redone. I looked at the cost plus decided not to. I owned a boiler plus it already provided reasonable heat, what was the point of radiant heated floors? Well, I changed from carpet to stone and felt how cold it got in the winter. The boiler is wonderful, however the heat rises naturally. My feet are cold. I had to buy a bunch of area rugs plus wear socks in the house. I also redid the powder room floors plus got heated flooring for those spaces to try it out. I cherish it. The powder rooms are so comfortable in the winter. It is nice having the heat at your feet, but you naturally feel warmer. It is a quieter, cleaner, plus more efficient way to heat. The rest of my home is just not as unbelievable now. I want to rip up the stone plus 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 replacement crew did an unbelievable job. I bet I am stuck with these floors for 15-20 years. That is a long time to not have heated flooring.