We're out here in flyover country where the snows are deep and cold, and getting real, real, tired of shoveling out the driveway and clearing the sidewalk.
Even with a contractor handling it, that often means waiting a day or so because of their other work.
So... we'll be needing some concrete work on the driveway in a few years, and I was looking into tapping off our home heating boiler (baseboard, hot water circulating) and running some loops in the concrete.
It would add between five hundred and a thousand to the basic concrete work, and cost, perhaps, ten dollars for the extra natural gas each time we'd use it.
It would also mean changing/adding an antifreeze mix to the boiler loop, which might reduce efficiency a notch (there's lots of argument...) and thus cost us another hundred, maybe, ech winter. Maybe.
So it's economically plausable.
Anyone have experience, thoughts, cautions, or even "you're absolutely crazy" warnings?
Thanks.