One nice thing? After twenty years, wood fences rot and driveways crumble and you get to upgrade.
Get this upgrade: they make driveways now that melt your snow. You wake up and there is snow everywhere BUT your driveway. It’s a series of tubes and antifreeze and electrical power under the driveway.
Handiest time to put it in? If you’re in the process of pouring a new driveway. Like we will be this spring! Ee!
Don’t ask me how expensive it is. I have no idea. What value can you put on that?
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That seems like an excellent idea and one that will save many a back and shoulder.
I want that. I cannot, however, have that in my current abode. It’s a townhouse, and our “driveways” are just lined parking spots in the street in front of our units. Plus, the homeowner’s association just went for a full re-paving in 2010. There won’t be another one for at *least* 10 years.
Still – awesome. You can not put a price on the awesomeness.
Not very green is it?
when i was a kid, there was a house down the street from us with one of those. they had a really steep driveway, not too long, and it was mesmerizing (and jealous making) to see it empty of snow in the winter.
oh my, I want one.
But then again, I’d have every cat in the neighborhood lounging on my driveway …
When I lived in Iowa, there were folks that had it in the newer subdivisions. It always seemed amazing; it also made me wonder if it’s warm to the touch so you could walk out to the car without shoes.
We had a horrible winter the last year we lived in an apartment. When we put a contract on a house in February I drooled over the double garage. The next winter was the mildest ever. I hope for my sake that your new driveway is followed by a mild winter.
Hattie – It will save many a cold early morning conversation with sullen boys carrying snow shovels. Tami – A townhouse. Now that makes me envious. Zayrina – in winter I do not view Mother Nature favorably. My air conditioning isn’t green either, but if she isn’t going to play nice neither am I.Magpie – I thought this was new-fangled!RockyCat – Oh no – and then I’d run over them by accident. God knows what the groundhgs will do.Will they think it’s spring? Will they wake up out of hibernation?Amy In AtL – I don’t know. I’ve never even heard of it before!Caroline – well, it isn’t going in till next year, so maybe it will follow the car washing rule and make 2012 a milk winter.
You’re envious of my townhouse? Is it because I never have to mow the lawn?
Tami – Well, I assume it’s a Georgian townhouse.