Home hunting shows evidence of great progress in marketing this technology.
My wife and I have been home hunting lately. Like many other American boomers, we’re looking to downsize and condo-ize after sending our last kid off to college in a couple of months. As of this writing we haven’t yet sold our home and therefore haven’t bought anything to replace it, but our tentative condo-shopping expeditions have led to a surprising revelation.
Two different buildings we’ve looked at and are considering as our future residence feature radiant heat. It’s not the only thing we like about the places, but the thought of living amid radiant heat sure adds to their attraction. We also visited two other complexes that we rejected for other reasons, but which also came radiantly heated. I hadn’t expected to find so many multifamily developments with radiant heat in the Chicago suburbs. I had it in mind that radiant was a luxury found mainly in custom homes. We’re not exactly slumming, but our housing price range still falls within middle-class boundaries. This is an encouraging trend for wetheads.