When the heat first came on in our newly constructed home, it almost felt like I was picked up and removed to another time and place.
- The heating in our house felt just like the heat in my grandparent’s house and it was sort of stunning to have all those memories.
It was as though I was right there standing next to the radiant heating when I was just a little girl in a snow suit. Our new house comes with a geothermal heat pump and the heat is transferred via radiant floor heating. There are copper tubes running throughout the underneath of our floors. This radiant heating method is just delicious. I can remember now why I always loved staying with my grandma and grandpa on cold days. They had this huge boiler in the basement that pumped out radiant heat through the radiators that were placed around the house. I can remember just how incredibly cozy that heat felt. It was more like being embraced by a heating method. That radiant heat was just so enveloping. So it’s really sort of ironic that we built our retirement home and chose the geothermal heat pump. We did this because this HVAC equipment will probably outlast us. And it’s so incredibly efficient that our utility bills will be much, much more sustainable as we age. Still, I wasn’t quite prepared for the flashback to the boiler days of old in my grandparent’s house. I think that is such a lovely memory and just a lovely example of how so many things in life come full circle.