Honestly out of all the places you can go to visit, it might be ideal to nix the whole state of Minnesota.
- It gets brutally cold here.
Our cold season starts as early as the fall and lingers well into spring. We don’t really get blooming, spring flowers or the changing leaves. Basically we go from snow to slush. Our summer seasons are so mild in Minneapolis, MN that I don’t bother with cooling equipment. Owning an air conditioner is about as pointless as owning a pony. It wouldn’t get used. What we do is use box fans and window cooling systems in order to combat the actual one month that is quite warm. The rest of the time the heating equipment is blasting. We use a boiler system in the basement that is hooked up to our baseboards. Baseboard heating throughout both stories of the house keeps us warm. I have even contemplated getting the piping hooked up underneath the floorboards. After we redo our flooring, we will have hydronic heating there. That will make everything warm and evenly heated. For now, it works. I look forward to summer all year, no matter how brief. If it isn’t too warm I will take advantage of the fact that I don’t need to use a system and I will open the windows to let a fresh breeze in. I think it is good to air out the house occasionally. The summers can get into the low 80s occasionally, but it isn’t often.