Our heating didn’t heat the couch.
When the HVAC contractor began talking about chopping up the flooring and putting heat tape or water pipes under the floor, I thought he was nuts.
Our furnace worked amazingly well, as long as you weren’t barefoot. I hated wearing shoes in the house. There was something about mucking up the scrub floors with the outside dirt. I liked the think of the carpeting between my toes, however not all the rooms had carpeting. There was tile in the home office and bathrooms… We had hardwood flooring in every other room except our home offices. That’s why I took every opportunity I could to be in the home office. The tile and hardwood were so frosty on my bare feet that my toes would cramp. I told my husband that we needed to do something about the frigid flooring. He called the HVAC contractor, and they recommended we put the air ducts into the wall so they blew the heat across the flooring. I looked at the air vent covers, and knew it would only heat a small distance, and we would need to make holes in the walls. I wasn’t fond of that idea. I asked what it would cost to have radiant heating in the flooring. The price he quoted was a bit more than I had thought it would be, however it was doable. When the HVAC contractor began talking about chopping up the flooring and putting heat tape or water pipes under the floor, I thought he was nuts. He didn’t think how much it had cost to install this flooring. I would let no 1 tear them up. Then I thought about the cost of the plumbing and wondered where the sizzling water would come from. I told the HVAC contractor I would put up with the frosty floors and find a pair of fuzzy slippers to keep my toes warm.