I have never seen my children so happy than when I said we would be renovating the second living room into a cinema room, however it had always been the plan since we moved to the house but I wanted the kids to feel like they earned it.
I gave them an ultimatum.
All of them had to clean and organize their rooms, finish all their meals and help me with chores during the weekend regularly without fail for a month. The room was the furthest and the electric heating system that we used as our central heater did not warm the room. I had consulted the local repair provider to find out if we could have a zone control system with our electric heat pump and also if it was possible to have radiant floor heating in the soon-to-be cinema room. The heating worker I had talked to told me that he had to make a house visit to be able to deliver accurate answers, but after a day, the heating company came to the house to assess our whole-home heating system. After he was done he had both good and bad news. The bad news was that we had neglected the Heating and A/C upgrade by failing to get a furnace/heater tune-up and the machine had developed some problems but they would be fixed by an easy furnace repair. This would explain why we were recently having problems with temperature control. The good news was that it would be possible to install the underfloor heating but that meant we had to rip out the old flooring which we were planning to do from the start, but we would also need a new digital thermostat to go with the update.