I grew up inside a big, almost giant housing complex in the inner city; this city is located way up north where the winter can be particularly brutal.
There were a number of things that we had to do without in that particular apartment, it was rent controlled as well as I was being raised by a single Dad toiling two jobs to stay afloat.
There were times we had to honestly tighten the belt as well as deal with hardships back then, but one thing we never had to worry about was the heating in the Winter, and for all the things that were wrong with that giant building, they sure got the heating right; then of course, it was radiant heating as well as there was a giant boiler in the basement providing the source for that radiant heating. There were times it got so toasty hot in our loft that we had to crack a window in the dead of Winter. These days, that’s all a distant memory but those times help me remember just how fortunate I am now. Living a bit further south now, I also don’t have a winter that needs a gas heating system or a boiler. I live in a home with central a/c as well as the heat pump is all we need for both heating as well as cooling. This thing, besides being such a revolutionary invention, is just so amazingly adaptable! Aside from changing the air filter as well as getting heating as well as air conditioning service in the Fall as well as Spring, the heat pump takes care of the rest. And all I have to do is flip the thermostat from heating to cooling or vice versa. One thing that is still guaranteed in my life is plenty of good heating in the Winter. It’s just these days, a heat pump is the source of that good heating comfort instead of a boiler.