Anything touching the heated flooring feels warmer as a result.
My whole family lives in Lowell, Massachusetts. I decided early on in my life that I wouldn’t move too far away from home. Everyone sticks close and goes to the same school. Everyone knows each other and all the kids play on the same hockey team. It just makes good sense. I hunted around for the perfect house in Lowell and found a place. I grew up with a gas furnace. It used ductwork to achieve whole home temperature control. I found a house that had a boiler system. I was originally quite worried. I didn’t know anything about boilers. I didn’t like that I was kept in the basement and took up so much room. It had piping hooked to it and it was strewn through all my floors. That seemed odd to me. At first I thought about ripping out the boiler and redoing the floors. Thankfully I had so many more projects on deck that I let that be at the bottom of the list. Now that I have done a full winter season in Lowell with hydronic heating, I will never own another system. Having hot water flow through pipes and be under the floors is amazing. The heating system is so efficient. You feel warmer when it sticks to the ground level. It is quiet, clean, and there are no hot and cold spots. Anything touching the heated flooring feels warmer as a result. For Lowell, having a good working heater is a game changer. My boiler system also is linked with living over 50 years. I am in for a real treat.