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I've recently moved into a nearly 200 year old house and am very much considering the same thing @JasGot !
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@PhlipElder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
There's something special about walking about barefoot on a warm floor when it's -35C outside.
Our 60 yo old house is half on slab and half on crawl. Over the years, we've (wife and I) have added hot water re-circulation as well as heated floors, garage, sidewalks, and driveway. Not sure if I could live any other way now
Our main client in the region built a house that we helped to set up for automation.
They put in a heated driveway. No shoveling.
After one hard winter I wanted to break up the floor in the then house and set it up for heating and the drive as well. Most of the work would have been done by me so cost would be materials and time plus a certified plumber to plug in the natural gas and stamp everything.
It didn't pass the CFO business case test.
Main reason: Shoveling keeps me arse slim in the winter ... back then.
Now:
Keep in mind that I hand bombed that SoB our first winter in. We ended up not having as much cash on hand as planned so couldn't buy the JD we had our eye on.A quad/plow was initially out of the question because my wife was leery due to young kids at the time.
45cm snow, third one of the late Spring, neighbour came over and finished plowing the last half I'd reached after about 4 hours of shoveling. He did it in ten minutes. After he was done I went in the house and said, "Eff it, we're getting a quad and a plow." Business case made.
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@PhlipElder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@JasGot said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@PhlipElder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
There's something special about walking about barefoot on a warm floor when it's -35C outside.
Our 60 yo old house is half on slab and half on crawl. Over the years, we've (wife and I) have added hot water re-circulation as well as heated floors, garage, sidewalks, and driveway. Not sure if I could live any other way now
Our main client in the region built a house that we helped to set up for automation.
They put in a heated driveway. No shoveling.
After one hard winter I wanted to break up the floor in the then house and set it up for heating and the drive as well. Most of the work would have been done by me so cost would be materials and time plus a certified plumber to plug in the natural gas and stamp everything.
It didn't pass the CFO business case test.
Main reason: Shoveling keeps me arse slim in the winter ... back then.
Now:
Keep in mind that I hand bombed that SoB our first winter in. We ended up not having as much cash on hand as planned so couldn't buy the JD we had our eye on.A quad/plow was initially out of the question because my wife was leery due to young kids at the time.
45cm snow, third one of the late Spring, neighbour came over and finished plowing the last half I'd reached after about 4 hours of shoveling. He did it in ten minutes. After he was done I went in the house and said, "Eff it, we're getting a quad and a plow." Business case made.
My brother just bought a place with 150+ ft of driveway... he's getting a quad this summer, mowing deck and snow blade too.
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@Dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@PhlipElder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@JasGot said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@PhlipElder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
There's something special about walking about barefoot on a warm floor when it's -35C outside.
Our 60 yo old house is half on slab and half on crawl. Over the years, we've (wife and I) have added hot water re-circulation as well as heated floors, garage, sidewalks, and driveway. Not sure if I could live any other way now
Our main client in the region built a house that we helped to set up for automation.
They put in a heated driveway. No shoveling.
After one hard winter I wanted to break up the floor in the then house and set it up for heating and the drive as well. Most of the work would have been done by me so cost would be materials and time plus a certified plumber to plug in the natural gas and stamp everything.
It didn't pass the CFO business case test.
Main reason: Shoveling keeps me arse slim in the winter ... back then.
Now:
Keep in mind that I hand bombed that SoB our first winter in. We ended up not having as much cash on hand as planned so couldn't buy the JD we had our eye on.A quad/plow was initially out of the question because my wife was leery due to young kids at the time.
45cm snow, third one of the late Spring, neighbour came over and finished plowing the last half I'd reached after about 4 hours of shoveling. He did it in ten minutes. After he was done I went in the house and said, "Eff it, we're getting a quad and a plow." Business case made.
My brother just bought a place with 150+ ft of driveway... he's getting a quad this summer, mowing deck and snow blade too.
Huh... just realized my driveway is ~700ft... I really should get a snowplow for the side-by-side.
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@Dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@PhlipElder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@JasGot said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@PhlipElder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
There's something special about walking about barefoot on a warm floor when it's -35C outside.
Our 60 yo old house is half on slab and half on crawl. Over the years, we've (wife and I) have added hot water re-circulation as well as heated floors, garage, sidewalks, and driveway. Not sure if I could live any other way now
Our main client in the region built a house that we helped to set up for automation.
They put in a heated driveway. No shoveling.
After one hard winter I wanted to break up the floor in the then house and set it up for heating and the drive as well. Most of the work would have been done by me so cost would be materials and time plus a certified plumber to plug in the natural gas and stamp everything.
It didn't pass the CFO business case test.
Main reason: Shoveling keeps me arse slim in the winter ... back then.
Now:
Keep in mind that I hand bombed that SoB our first winter in. We ended up not having as much cash on hand as planned so couldn't buy the JD we had our eye on.A quad/plow was initially out of the question because my wife was leery due to young kids at the time.
45cm snow, third one of the late Spring, neighbour came over and finished plowing the last half I'd reached after about 4 hours of shoveling. He did it in ten minutes. After he was done I went in the house and said, "Eff it, we're getting a quad and a plow." Business case made.
My brother just bought a place with 150+ ft of driveway... he's getting a quad this summer, mowing deck and snow blade too.
I picked up a Honda Rincon in Athabasca for $5K. It is a low miles/hours US model. The plow is a Moose 60" with steel cutter.
I blew the winch in the first year so replaced that with a new Warn. I had to replace the solenoid last week so about 4 years of work plus intense country riding through a lot of ponds.
The 680cc broke what I think was the exhaust advanced timing ring on the cam so I head to tear it top down to the block to swap out the bad cam and put it all back together again. It's been flawless since.
A real back saver.
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