I have been looking into snowmelt systems since I am exhausted of shoveling snow.
The chilly starts as early as September and doesn’t let up until May.
The snow occasionally comes that early as well. My area gets feet of snow rather than inches. Along with it, there is hard ice that forms along our windshield and occasionally on our door making it hard to open. I do not like that getting ready for work in the Winter is so difficult. I need to begin our morning putting on boots, hat, gloves, scarf and coat in order to shovel a walk way. I then need to push all the snow off our car and pre-heat it. If I didn’t start the car furnace, the ice would be too thick to see through. I need to melt away the ice before I leave. After all that, I am able to shower and actually get ready. It takes myself and others around 20 minutes longer and I lose the sleep that I want. If I got a snowmelt system, all that would go away, then piping would be hidden under our driveway but connect to our house boiler system. The boiler would heat water that flows through the pipes to create even heating. Having a heated driveway means no snow would be on it. Stationary objects touching the driveway like our car would be heated as a result. I would not suppose snow would be able to rest on our car with that. Also, the ice absolutely would melt if I had that system. I could just sleep like normal and get into an already heated car.