I have to say, if you have to live with a cold winter, radiant floor heating is the way to go.
That is understating it by a mile.
In fact, after nearly more than one decade of residing up here, this winter time was bliss. And that all thanks to the geothermal heat pump my friend and I have in our up-to-date house; then prior to us building our up-to-date home, heating consistently came from a gas heating system. But the gas heating system dying plus us wanting to build a house happened at just the same time. That’s just how my friend and I were able to afford having a geothermal heat pump in our up-to-date site. My buddy and I shelled out a huge amount more than my friend and I wanted to upgrade the residential heating plus A/C in our ancient house. But the realtor assured us that we’d be thrilled with the outcome because of the value it would add to our home. He was absolutely right about that. My buddy and I got above the asking price for our ancient site. And with that, my friend and I upgraded to the geo heat pump. A normal heat pump just wouldn’t be efficient enough to entirely overheat a house this far north. But the geothermal heat pump uses the near constant temperature of the earth to extract heating energy. That heating energy is then transferred to us via the radiant floor heating. I swear, I didn’t realize I wore our shoes five times so far this winter. It will be interesting to see just how low the air conditioning bills are this summer. My buddy and I love the modern geo heat pump.