I made a mistake not getting heated flooring, but i moved to South Bend, IN and I had the choice on whether to use heated flooring or not.
I was ripping up the home’s carpets and replacing them with tile. I was doing every floor but the powder rooms too. I had the money. I debated the costs and decided not to, then our home had a central heater, however why would I need to add another one? I thought the brick floors would be just fine, and so I ripped up the floors, laid brick board down, and put current brick over top of it! Then I went through an IN winter and regretted it substantially, but not having heated flooring and pairing it with cold brick is horrible. I should have set more money upfront for radiant heating. Now it is too late. I have the perfect flooring material for it but can’t add it later. I would need to rip up my brand current brick in order to have it installed. Nope, that is too late. The best I can hope for is radiant heating when I do the powder rooms. The brick in those rooms need to be redone. I can test out the heated flooring in there and see if I like it. I guess I am going to. I am also going to be easily distraught because my central heating system is showing signs of age. If it dies and I don’t have any heated flooring to tag in, that will be horrible. I would have made a substantial, horrible decision rather than just a dumb one. South Bend gets some easily cold winter nights, and my brick floors are now covered with throw rugs just because I can’t rest the cold anymore.
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