Recently a neighbor of mine moved into a residence with radiant heated floors and, I have honestly to admit, they were exceptionally nice! I totally loved having my feet entirely warm on the hardwood floor as well as she said it was truly cheaper on a yearly basis to heat her residence. She told me that she didn’t even realize the residence had radiant floor heating when she purchased it but that it has been a great benefit. This all just sounded so lovely! The moment I got home, I asked my husband what he thought about us getting radiant floor heating as well as he said he would check it out. Turns out, it’s a pretty massive hassle! First as well as foremost, in order to install radiant floor heating, you have to rip up your existing floor. I get that this might not be entirely surprising to a lot of people, but for me it didn’t cross my mind that I would have to tear everything up! Secondly, I realized it would be expensive, although I didn’t honestly realize it would cost me less money to replace the entire heating machine! Hydraulic systems were recommended over electric, but this category of radiant floor heating was the most costly overall! It was just too much to get radiant heat flooring for our residence. My husband recommended that we could have our next residence built from the ground up, and then we could consider radiant floor heating but for right now we would just have to keep heating as well as cooling costs low with careful practices as well as hold off on the radiant floor heating.