Warm is good.
In winter my mind turns to keeping warm, and to smart solutions for keeping my customers warm — efficiently, cost effectively toasty — in my remodeling projects.
Warm floor concepts are great. I love the notion and the practice of heating large, monolithic elements like the floor instead of whispy molecules that quickly accept temperature fluctuations.
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