When I bought our house the first thing I did was rip out the ugly carpet. The previous owner painted her walls brown, had wood ceilings as well as then added a brown shag rug to every room. It was a big, brown blob. It was so ugly as well as horrible looking. I could not sit it! I removed the hideous rug as well as decided to do gray stone instead. I painted the brown walls white as well as kept that wood ceiling. Now it is gorgeous, and before sitting the stone down, our sibling came up with an excellent plan. He told myself and others our HVAC system wasn’t going to last long. I was ripping up our rug anyway. He said I was in the perfect position to add heated flooring. After the stone board as well as before the stone is where electric heated mats go. You don’t have to go through a HVAC contractor if you don’t want to. Hardware stores sell the mats as well as you can install them yourself. For fear of ruining it, I just hired out. It was genuinely nice to have someone do that portion of the flooring. It did double our flooring budget but now I can tell you it is worth it. I enjoy our stone floors as well as I genuinely enjoy it when they are heated. I thought I would hardly use the heated flooring, even though I constantly want them on. It is cold cold on the tiles if you do not. It is also a quieter system of heating. I enjoy that nobody is woken up in the middle of the night to the heating system clicking on.