Yea, if I ever build a house I'm going with the radiant heat, house, garage, don't know about the drive. Many of the snows are big, don't know if it could keep up?
Nice warm garage floor, each room with it's own temp control, that would be great. Stayed at a resort in Santa Fe that had it, great in the morning when you get out of bed and the floor is warm.
Howie, how long have you had yours? Were you on fuel oil before that? I was wondering about a cost comparison. We have natural gas here, I remember how much it use to cost us when we had fuel oil in NJ, with an old converted coal furnace!! $$$$ 
Craig, I can design a system to melt ANY amount of snow, at ANY temp and wind velocity. These are the factors to consider when sizing a system. But the higher the requirements, the more boiler HP you have to throw at it. I was on gas before and now. Best I can tell, it runs me about 50 bucks per storm on my property. That's about 2000 sq ft. I designed for 0 degF outside temp, 2" of snow/hour in 50 mph winds. I maintain my slab at 45 deg F during melting. Pretty severe design. But I didn't want to see it on my property. Most residential systems are designed to accumulate snow and melt it over time. This keeps the equipment size down. But I designed it for critical duty, no accumulation, and instantaneous meltage. I have the "CVO Snow Melting System"!!!
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Topic: Enough is Enough 2010-2011 (another Winter arrives) (Read 26318 times)