The biggest mistake I ever made was not adding heated flooring to my house.
My husband and I bought a new house and had a few months before moving in.
We decided the right move would be to rip up the old carpet and put tile floors down. Nothing of ours was in the house yet. It was the perfect time. During the ripping up process I did some research and found this is the perfect time to put in heated flooring. You need to put electric heated mats on top of the cement board and then tile is placed over top. I talked to my husband about it and he nixed the idea. It was going to double our flooring budget. My husband said we live down south, how cold can it get? We also had a working heat pump system so it seemed pointless. We finished the flooring, moved in and our HVAC machine broke. It was so sad because we could have gotten away with just AC if we had done heated flooring. Instead we had to buy another heat pump and just deal with it. Our little house gets cold too, even with the heat pump. There are mornings that the tile feels icy cold on my feet. My husband wears socks constantly. I feel bad for him. I wish I would have pushed to have heated flooring. Now I have put rugs down on my brand new tile to make it feel a little warmer in the house. It wasn’t a great decision on our part.