My wife and I thought it would be wonderful to build a brand new house of our own.
Neither one of us anticipated all of the choices we would need to make.
Some of the choices were easy. We knew that we wanted wood floors and tile in the kitchen. We wanted a fireplace in the living room. We had options for the master bedroom and bathroom that included the addition of radiant heated flooring. Radiant heated flooring sounded like a fun and novel way to heat the space, but I thought it was a lot of money and unnecessary. My wife wanted the heated flooring and she made several cases to have the work completed. Since I was on the fence and didn’t have a real opinion either way, I let my wife make that decision. She thought about it for exactly two minutes and then gave me her decision. Of course, she chose to have the radiant heated flooring installed. A few weeks ago, we had our first night of temperatures that were below freezing. We had the opportunity to use the radiant heater flooring for the first time. Wow, it is absolutely amazing. I can’t believe how warm the bedroom is compared to the rest of the house. Even with a bedroom door open, it still feels much warmer inside of our bedroom and bathroom. If I had known that the radiant heated flooring would work out so nicely, I might have paid the extra $15,000 to have heated flooring installed throughout the entire four bedroom, 3 bathroom, and 3000 square foot home.