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Don't Expect Much Change on Your Electricity Bill!
The cost of operating a heated driveway is dependant on the spacing of the heat cables as well as how much space you are covering on your property. Having a four inch spacing is recommended most of the time for optimal energy efficiency as well as effective snow melting. If the rows are closer than the recommended four inches, obviously that will drain more energy and consume a higher wattage of power. The average operational cost for driveway snow melting is approximately $.28 per 100 square feet per hour the system is in use. |
Heated Driveways Will Save you Time
Heated driveways are a major time saver. Particularly if the weather man predicts and actually gets it right one night and the next day you wake up to a foot of snow. Snow that would usually mean back-breaking work, with a heated driveway now means “no big deal.” Heated driveways save you the time it would take to clear your driveway because the heating cables have worked consistently through the night (and day) to keep your driveway surface warm so nothing can accumulate. We are all looking for ways to save time and money and having a heated driveway does just that. |
Being concerned with
adding a
Were you sitting around last
winter wondering how you could fill your time? Were
you sitting in the window seat of your bedroom staring
wistfully out at the landscape hoping for a monster snow
storm so you could put on seven layers of warm clothes
and shovel, plow, and heave snow from the surface of
your driveway? Me either. In fact, I was thinking how
it would be nice to have one less thing to worry about
during the hustle and bustle of the holidays especially. The
holiday season is right when a lot of us typically get
some major snow storms. This is where a