When my uncle installed hydronic heating in his house, we all decided that’s where we’d be spending the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. Our home used a simple furnace for heating, and my aunt’s house had a heat pump. Both were okay and kept us warm, but the floors in my uncle’s house would also be warm, making it perfect for indoor games during winter. Apart from the heater, we loved that they were all so fun, and the house was big enough. It wasn’t always so fun because their previous house had a boiler that became so troublesome they gave up on boiler repair and decided to buy a new home. Initially, Their new house had a furnace/heater installation, but the HVAC repairman they’d hired to assess it told them it would give them trouble since it was old. The heating business had the floor heating option and the hybrid heating, making it easy for them to decide and get both of them installed. The issue started when my teenage cousins decided they would be leaving the heat and AC product on all night, and the electricity bills rose to an amount my uncle decided was unsustainable. He turned the entire unit off, and the heated floors became a story from the past. We tried to have him consider switching the unit back on for the holidays, but he said that a bill of $4000 that took months to clear was enough for him to swear off the entire unit of any possible use. The amount had set him back on HVAC maintenance for that year, and since they had another reliable option, he could pay the heating dealership for simple heater maintenance for the hybrid system.