I decided that I was going to redo my flooring in MN, but for years I have had the ugliest carpets in the world, they were these stained ugly looking brown shag carpets that came with the home, but i hated the look, feel, smell, as well as the way they cleaned up.
Finally I decided to treat myself.
I ripped them all up as well as considered getting stone flooring. Thankfully I have a buddy that told me about heated flooring, but he said that it is the perfect time for heating upgrade! You gotta rip the floors anyway, and also, heated flooring works best with tile, so I picked myself a great, new gray stone that hardly shows dirt. I also got a local MN heating dealership to do the upgrade for me. Yes, my flooring project nearly doubled with this heating upgrade on top of it. But instead of another ugly rug, I have stylish stone with a furnace underneath it. I wondered if it would be too much. Having a home boiler as well as a floor boiler could be overkill. That is the thing about Minneapolis though. It gets so frigid here that having two boilers is never a bother. I care about having the heat at my feet. It is silent in operation, doesn’t rise to the ceiling, as well as creates no frigid spots since it is evenly installed, but using electric vs forced air means the air quality is better too. It is a much better system than my central boiler as well. I feel I am regularly going to own heated flooring.