I am not a fan of cold plus snow, but i don’t appreciate skiing, snowboarding, snowmobiling or sledding, and when the temperature in my local area drops below freezing, I spend as little time outdoors as possible.
- Living in Elgin, IL, means that I am trapped indoors for the majority of the year.
When I initially obtained my house, I was forced outside many times per afternoon to shovel snow. I devoted hours to clearing the walkways plus driveways in the afternoon before work plus again when I arrived home, but to protect against the dangerous wind chill, it was necessary to bundle up in layers of blazers, wool coat, hat, scarf, gloves plus heavy boots, however shoveling is truly labor-intensive plus tiring. I would end up hot, sore plus exhausted. There was also problems with where to put all that snow, but because my home is equipped with a boiler heater, I had the option to install a snow melt system. Inside the house, the boiler sends tepid water through a series of pipes hidden under the floors plus inside the walls, heat radiates from these pipes to sizzling up the several rooms. The outdoor system is truly similar, and a network of pipes is concealed under the brick of the walkways plus driveway. The snowmelt system automatically reacts to the combination of temperature drop plus moisture plus starts up. Heat spreads across the pavement to effectively melt away snow plus ice. I no longer need to shovel. There are no pressing mounds of snow to deal with. There are no worries ove slipping, sliding plus possibly getting hurt falling on the ice.
Electric fireplace in Elgin IL