Adding retrofit radiant electric heat to driveway?

[Landon Elscott]

Recently looked at an absolutely beautiful home, and priced extremely well, too. That said, its major flaw is a steep driveway coming off a main street road without on street parking.

During the summer, this isn't such a concern as there is a one car garage and space for one car in front of garage, too. However, during the winter (as I learned myself), you just can't get up the drive - especially if tenants fail to clear snow or let the snow get packed down. Had someone snow blowed it'd probably be alright, but what about coming home from work after a big snow storm...I just envision potential clients pointing this out or existing clients complaining a lot in hindsight.

On thought I had, to potentially eliminate a tenants stress is to install radiant electric heat along the tire paths up the drive. At the very least, tenants would be able to get up to the garage, eliminating the headaches of complaints, necessity to plow, and perhaps make it ideal for elderly.

Just curious of the cost such system might be, especially for do it yourselfer in comparison to a pro. The Heatizon system I saw went about surface deep into existing concrete and then sealed. Seemed easy enough with a concrete saw and some basic wiring knowledge.

What do you think? Granted, I could probably just say its the tenants problem if they can get up the drive, but with no on street parking there's really no where for a tenant to go if they can't get up the drive and it can't be blocked as its an egress for neighbors.