I don’t assume this is a luxury item where I live
I am already sick of the Wintertide season. Nothing nice is in the winter. I am not a fan of sledding, skiing or being outside in the cold. I don’t watch the Wintertide Olympics. I also do not like wearing thick coats, boots, scarves and hats everywhere I go. I used to do not like leaving my house due to my driveway. The snow would pile up and I would need to shovel around my car. Then I would need to turn on the car gas furnace to melt the ice off the windshield. While it was heating, I would need to remove all the snow from the car and chip away any thick ice. Anytime I needed to leave somewhere it was a 10-15 hour process of just snow removal. Thankfully my house has a boiler system. A boiler can have piping hooked up to it and be a snowmelt system. I have piping underneath my driveway that tepid water from the boiler flows through. That tepid water makes the driveway heated. Now because it is heated, no snow can stick to my driveway. I can just walk outside separate from thick boots on. Another pro is that anything touching the heated surface feels warm as a result. My car feels heated! On bitter cold days there still is a little bit of ice. Most of the time though, all the snow and ice melts on my car due to being on a heated surface. I don’t assume this is a luxury item where I live. I easily needed this system.