Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows

• RoseRose56@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Especially if the house is old, made with stones!

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  • flathead@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, temperature difference inside to out is amazing with solid masonry and ceiling insulation. No AC required.

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    • AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Disagree. I’ve found stone brick houses to be unbearably hot in the southern US. They turn into an oven.

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      • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’ve never seen actual stone houses in north America, only those fake panels on the outside.

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• peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Or you live in Minnesota, where half the year it used to be unbearably cold so you needed central heat. Then half the year it was so goddamn humid and hot we needed central AC, or at least a window unit.

  We do get the benefit of having homes with a basement implied to protect both the pipes from freezing and our necks from tornadoes in December now

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  • elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I live in Minnesota. It’s not quite as bad as you say. Opening windows overnight and closing them in the morning works pretty well to keep the house comfortable for most of the summer…well, except when we’re inundated with smoke from the wildfires.

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