I live in a climate with four distinct seasons and cold winters. I am all electric and have to have both. The heat pump is mostly used for cooling and only for heating down to around 35 degrees Fahrenheit, any colder than that and it becomes ineffective and the electric furnace switches on. They say a heat pump is good for heat in temperature down to 20 Fahrenheit, but I have had them for years, recently replacing old with newer and very high efficiency, and it's still the same temperature range.

I know that the higher end electric products are well worth the extra money. The complaint that you most often hear (and these are few and far between, but they are out there) with electric infloor heating = electrical short because one of the wires was knicked during install or bent too far (whatever) and the product stops working. The higher end the product, the better the wire casings, the better made the product can be. The over all construction of the material (wires, wire casing, webbing, etc) is better when you spend a bit more money. Personally, a cork glue down tile = warmth under foot = close to the same comfort as in-floor radiant heat...without the $500 - $1500 price tag. So long as you have a primary source of heat in the area (forced air, baseboard, etc) a cork glue down tile can be used IN PLACE OF in-floor radiant heating. Back to topic - don't go with the cheapest option when it comes to built in electric heating systems. Cheaping out on electrical is never a good idea. Houses tend to burn down when things go wrong with cheap wiring.

When I had a 30/70 sink used the small area for draining then dried after done washing. The small sink was easy to scrub clean. With a single bowl cannot do that. Don't know your method but with my large deep single sink I wash out the largest pan and use it for a dish pan and rinse with a slow stream from the faucet. With the goose neck faucet had to learn to hold dishes low in the sink or there was too much splashing. Tried a drainer on the counter and got the *heebie jeebies from the thing. Now we put clean dishes on a clean towel laying on the counter and then dry them using the wet drain towel to wipe down the counter and in the wash it goes. *Not a germaphobe but they must be cleaned and it's impossible to get clean without scrubbing with a toothbrush. That's ridiculous.

Sounds like our house. Our whole subdivision (Toronto) was built in the early 1970's with electric baseboard heat and aluminum wiring. Electricity was inexpensive then, with subsidies to builders to build all-electric homes. Our street did not have gas installed until the early 1990's. Once there was gas on the street, we had ducts retrofitted into our 2 story house, as did pretty well all our neighbors, for a forced air gas system. The furnace in the basement has ducts that go through the attached garage into the upstairs bedrooms above and near it. A big duct takes up half of one of the bedroom closets, goes up into the attic, and back down to the bedrooms on the non-garage side of the house, with ceiling ducts there. The basement was unfinished, so ducts run everywhere in the basement ceiling to the main floor rooms. I can't recall how much it cost but it repaid quickly. The ducts lose some heat in the garage but overall the house is comfortably heated. We had the air conditioner converted at that time to use the new ducts, instead of the old Space Pack system we had. I guess you could also get a hydronic gas system with water pipes in baseboard heaters. My parents have this in their home. Very clean, with comfortable even heat, but I don't know anything about how this would be to retrofit. As far as aluminum wiring, I know of no-one who has had it replaced in our neighborhood, and no-one has had any problems. My husband worked in the electrical industry at the time so he knew that aluminum is not an issue if done properly.