When my wife and I were looking for a new house, we narrowed our choices down to two places.
There was this one nice house that had radiant heated floors.
The radiant heated floors felt wonderful and we loved this place. The other house was just as good though which had a ductless mini split HVAC system along with a powerful UV air purification system. Both of the houses have four bedrooms and two bathrooms, but it was really coming down to the HVAC systems that we preferred. I was leaning towards the ductless mini split because it has HVAC zone control. You can actually heat and cool the sections of the household that you are using without wasting a ton of money. On the other hand, the radiant heated floors are really comfortable and energy efficient, but there is no HVAC zone control with this heating system. In the end, we came up with a pretty straightforward way to make a decision on which place we would go for. We did a coin toss! Heads would be the radiant heated floors, and tails would be the ductless mini split with the powerful UV air purification system. I was really hoping for tails but the coin landed with heads showing. I can’t really say that I was disappointed because I really do enjoy these radiant heated floors in our new home. I do sometimes wonder though what it would be like living in the other place. Of course, all of my family and friends who have visited our new home absolutely love the radiant heated floors.