When John Kopf eventually gets around to designing and building his own house, he will go with hydronic heat instead of a more traditional forced air system. Kopf knows a thing or two about heating, having spent more than 20 years in the industry. He currently serves as boiler product manager for Navien.
This control can be partnered with various home automation systems like Amazon’s Alexa or Google Assistant to energize the snow melting system based on weather information.
After being contacted by the general contractor, we met on site to go over the possibility of installing a snowmelt system for the more than 2,000-square-feet of sidewalks, which also included two ADA-sloped approaches to the grand entrance, a wide sweeping brick stairway and the landing pads outside the grand entrance.