The beach condo I grew up in legitimately didn’t have anything that most people would consider an Heating & A/C system.

There was this behemoth of a boiler in the basement for heat.

I mean that thing was the size of a small tank. It easily scared the pants off of me & I wouldn’t even get near it. However, the radiant heat that it produced was definitely the most comfortable & cozy heat I have ever experienced. Walking into our beach condo on a chilly Winter time day was such a great feeling. It was adore a warm blanket being wrapped around you just having that radiant heat. The heat was everywhere thanks to the radiators in every room of the house. There legitimately is something about not having heated air blown through the house. However, an oil fired boiler plan is a dinosaur when it comes to heating a house. I’m sure there are homes where it still exists. But I sure wouldn’t want to be paying the heating bills. I can’t even imagine how much that oil furnace would cost today. My beach condo has a up-to-date Heating & A/C system. All of us use a oil furnace as our heating method. While it isn’t quite the same sort of luxuriant heat that radiant heat is, our condo is warm. And, I can afford to spend money the heating bills each month. Of course, we do our part to keep the utility costs to a minimum. That was not something that our parents did. I can even remember when the heat was a bit too much on a chilly day, we simply opened a window. Can you imagine that? I would have a stroke if a single of our teenagers opened a window in the middle of the winter. All I would be able to see is dollar signs going out the window.

Programmable thermostat