As we in the northern hemisphere bask in what we laughingly call "summer", winter is never far from our thoughts and the chill we know will be with us soon enough.
Of course, older generations would tell you to dress up or do something physical as a way to keep warm, but we're a soft lot these days.
The options range from nice cozy real coal fires, to oil heaters.
Increasingly, however, people are turning to modern underfloor heating.
I say 'modern' with good reason.
For much as we might bracket underfloor heating with the technology of today, it is amongst the oldest heating techniques we know of.
We'll leave the old-fashioned heap of burning wood aside from that assessment.
The Romans, being among the most technically advanced cultures at the time, found themselves invading colder countries than they were used to.
Acclimatised to the ripe indulgent stare of the sun back home, invading a dismal place like 1st century England brought much discomfort.
Rome's greatest minds thought long and hard to solve this problem.
By basically propping up their villas on large numbers of small columns, they created unseen space underfoot.
Then, setting fires at specially designed apertures, the heat and smoke from the fires would heat the air.
This continual warming from beneath kept the Romans snug as a bug in a rug despite predilection for cold clothes like togas and leather skirts whilst trying to bring theater to Wales.
Modern under floor heating is thankfully, a bit more up to date but uses the same idea.
Heated elements under the floor - typically hot water pipes - circulate heat beneath your feet and thus make your home that bit less chilly.
A modern heating system has great advantages over other options.
Most pertinently, most other sources of heat are generally mounted on the wall, like radiators, wall-heaters etc.
Firstly, this means that they are raised off the floor.
As heat rises, this means that your toes - which are susceptible to feeling the chill - never get the benefit.
Secondly, much heat ends up heating the bricks instead of taking the chill out of the air.
While your bricks are nice and warm you might be waiting an age to feel any warmth at all.
Luckily for the interested, installation is no longer a big engineering job.
You can just 'get a man in', but also lots of self-installation tools that let the average Joe fit it themselves.
So don't fear the onset of winter chill - start looking into getting underfloor heating.