Throughout the winter, I was so moderate that I wore my bare feet most of the time inside.
Being able to walk barefoot in my home is undoubtedly helped by the radiant floor heating.
My experience with radiant heating is not new. In a radiantly heated dorm room, I spent the first two years of my university career. It was a beast, though. Because of how intense the heating was thanks to the radiant heating from that enormous boiler, we would need to crack a window even on the coldest afternoons. The radiant floor heating, however, is utterly unique. First off, this type of radiant heating is not connected to a boiler. Instead, my partner and I use a geothermal heat pump, which transfers heat from the earth through copper tubing hidden beneath the floorboards. This type of heating is incredibly environmentally friendly, and the HVAC system is incredibly effective. I was a little taken aback that this heating technique would be sufficient. When my associate and I decided to go with the geo heat pump, we replaced a gas boiler. A conventional heat pump might find our winter to be a little too demanding. My colleague and I were consistently grateful to have the gas boiler because it is right on the verge of change. However, a geo heat pump provides the heat pump with nearly constant hot and cold temperatures that are perfect for extracting heating and cooling energy. The first truly arctic night of the winter was no match for radiant floor heating, though, and I couldn’t help but be happy and a little relieved about that. I am incredibly grateful to the geothermal heat pump for allowing me to spend a bitter winter in such incredible comfort.