Anyone have experience with radiant heated driveways and those that are retrofitted. Costs, pros/coins, issues? Partly interested for my own house, also for this other property I'm looking into. The one I looked into was heatizon, which just gets cut the surface along your tires path down the drive.
Recently looked at a potential investment property with a shared driveway and no on street parking - not exactly ideal; however, it is an absolute bargain and I can guarantee it'll rent out simply because there's huge demand here and I can price rent slightly below FMV and still cash flow very well. There is a garage and larger pad at the end of the driveway, but my concern is that the driveway is so steep it might tough in the winter (my car couldn't) and also cause trouble on who should be out shoveling. It appears the neighboring tenant is lazy with his 4wd and just climbs over it packing it down.
I figured retrofitting the drive with radiant heating, roughly 40', might be a long term investment that not only makes it more ideal to rent, cut down on tenant issues on driveway responsibilities being shared, and also be cheaper in long run than professional plowing. The system I saw had lines cut surface deep with a sealant over top.
The other option I had is just cutting out a second pad adjacent the first one for additional parking and much more flat coming off the road. That'd probably be about $2k to do that.
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Recently looked at a potential investment property with a shared driveway and no on street parking - not exactly ideal; however, it is an absolute bargain and I can guarantee it'll rent out simply because there's huge demand here and I can price rent slightly below FMV and still cash flow very well. There is a garage and larger pad at the end of the driveway, but my concern is that the driveway is so steep it might tough in the winter (my car couldn't) and also cause trouble on who should be out shoveling. It appears the neighboring tenant is lazy with his 4wd and just climbs over it packing it down.
I figured retrofitting the drive with radiant heating, roughly 40', might be a long term investment that not only makes it more ideal to rent, cut down on tenant issues on driveway responsibilities being shared, and also be cheaper in long run than professional plowing. The system I saw had lines cut surface deep with a sealant over top.
The other option I had is just cutting out a second pad adjacent the first one for additional parking and much more flat coming off the road. That'd probably be about $2k to do that.
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