In MA it is smart to invest in a fine heating device.
I decided that I was willing to pay the big bucks for a boiler system, then a boiler is a tank of a heater.
It can last around 50 years with genuinely minimal care about or care, however you genuinely don’t even need to hire out for repair since it doesn’t seem to war out parts unless due to age. In fact, if you can find replacement parts a boiler can live up to 73 years, and that is why pretty much everyone replace them due to no parts being made! How does it work? It is super flexible in operation. You can hook up piping to your boiler and have it hooked to radiators or baseboards. It can serve as the family water heater, pool heater, or snow melt system. You can even have a boiler hooked to piping within the floorboards to create hydronic heating, then no matter how you use it, expect efficient, clean, and near silent operation. I care about that I have a boiler system for living in Lowell. The weather is just so cold most of the time… Lowell doesn’t see a lot of warm days! So spending quite a bit on a furnace is a justifiable expense. Also when you consider that this expense is going to last around 50 years, you have quite a budget for it. You get what you pay for and I am blissful that I paid extra to have a superior furnace to combat the Lowell, MA snowy season.