It was all a lie, wasn't it?
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Where did all your pipes and wiring go? What insulates the building?
The pipes go into the wall, older houses have them running outside the wall, right next to it, especially for stuff like radiator pipes. Wiring goes into the wall and gets plaster put over it. Saw a false ceiling in bathrooms too, since that had a lot of little lights so they probably ran it that way to keep it simpler. A lot of buildings just aren't insulated, especially older ones, walls do an okayish job already. But newer buildings have styrofoam on the outside of the building. Makes em pretty much have the exact same temp year round, unless you open a window.
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The 100 years old brick buildings don't have any voids. That only started post-WWII when ventilation became a real concern.
But even then those houses are likely to have wooden floors and more modern drywall remodeling in some areas. My house is hurricane-proof but not rat-proof.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]My house is brick, built in 1925 and has wall voids, you're simply wrong.
It does have wood floors with 10" wide rough cut planking and has not been remodeled, that's why I bought it.
Just as reference there are ancient Greek buildings with cavity walls, this argument is dumb.
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Where did all your pipes and wiring go? What insulates the building?
You don't need any of that nonsense. Real men insulate themselves with their feelings. As for electricity, I make that myself. They don't call me the love dynamo for no reason.
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I was so confused too as a Brit since our houses are made of brick and mortar. I still find it weird that houses in NA are made out of wood and plasterboard/drywall
When wood is cheaper then rocks you make things out of wood.
Then you get in the habit of using wood.
Then it doesn't matter what happens, you keep using wood cause fuck changing shit.
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My house is brick, built in 1925 and has wall voids, you're simply wrong.
It does have wood floors with 10" wide rough cut planking and has not been remodeled, that's why I bought it.
Just as reference there are ancient Greek buildings with cavity walls, this argument is dumb.
I guess Greek house building was several decades ahead of Belgian house building then, because I've yet to see a pre-war house with cavity walls. I guess the cheap coal heating and lack of a need for cooling must have something to do with it.
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The unions fell apart
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I guess Greek house building was several decades ahead of Belgian house building then, because I've yet to see a pre-war house with cavity walls. I guess the cheap coal heating and lack of a need for cooling must have something to do with it.
Regional variations exist and in some places or fell out of habit completely, just not in the US and honestly most of the Americas.
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The pipes go into the wall, older houses have them running outside the wall, right next to it, especially for stuff like radiator pipes. Wiring goes into the wall and gets plaster put over it. Saw a false ceiling in bathrooms too, since that had a lot of little lights so they probably ran it that way to keep it simpler. A lot of buildings just aren't insulated, especially older ones, walls do an okayish job already. But newer buildings have styrofoam on the outside of the building. Makes em pretty much have the exact same temp year round, unless you open a window.
This. I live in a concrete building with insulation on the outside. In my area it does get moderately cold (down to -5 or -10°C). In the four years I have lived here, I used the heaters I think on 3 days total.
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I was so confused too as a Brit since our houses are made of brick and mortar. I still find it weird that houses in NA are made out of wood and plasterboard/drywall
We have earthquakes here. Plaster and bricks are great for insulating, but they crumble when the ground shakes.
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The Tom & Jerry accords of 1959.
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Wainscoting. Sounds like... a little Dorset village. Wainscoting.
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This. I live in a concrete building with insulation on the outside. In my area it does get moderately cold (down to -5 or -10°C). In the four years I have lived here, I used the heaters I think on 3 days total.
I mean, if you get winters that go to -20, you still have to heat it up during it. But most it goes down is like 15 degree C? Not comfortable, but you probably won't freeze unless you don't heat at all
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I mean, if you get winters that go to -20, you still have to heat it up during it. But most it goes down is like 15 degree C? Not comfortable, but you probably won't freeze unless you don't heat at all
With the -5 to -10°C we have over here it never got below 18°C indoors.
But I guess if we'd have -20°C outdoors for prologed periods we'd probably have to heat too. We do of course have heating, so that's not a problem. I just wanted to demonstrate what our house can do.
I can't say how exactly it would perform at -20°C, since we haven't had that so far.
But on average our heating costs are ~€20 per year plus the €380 flat pricing that the mandatory provider that we have to use charges independent of usage. Sadly I can't cancel that provider since they come with the rent contract. Otherwise I would have cancelled the heating a long time ago and instead used our reversible AC to heat instead.
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When I was a kid I was really confused by Jerry. How could he make a home inside a wall like that? The walls are completely solid, with bricks and mortar.
I had to move to Canada to understand that the walls are hollow and the house is made from wood, plaster, plastic and styrofoam.Yeah... I didn't get homes elsewhere having ventilation until I realized that it's too cold in a lot of places to just open the window (at least I think that's why vents exist, if not, please enlighten me)
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Pipes are installed before the mortar (I think that’s the name), sometimes carving bricks. Wires pass inside flexible tubes (literally translated to conductors). This has the advantage that, if the tube is wide enough, we can pass more wires.
"Conduit" is the word for those tubes for wires. Probably a shared etymology with "conductor" though.
Having the pipes in the mortar/bricks sounds like a maintenance nightmare.
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"Conduit" is the word for those tubes for wires. Probably a shared etymology with "conductor" though.
Having the pipes in the mortar/bricks sounds like a maintenance nightmare.
Ah, so it’s the same name in Portuguese. Conduítes.
