Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows
AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 4 months agoDisagree. I’ve found stone brick houses to be unbearably hot in the southern US. They turn into an oven.
Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows
AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 4 months agoDisagree. I’ve found stone brick houses to be unbearably hot in the southern US. They turn into an oven.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
I’ve never seen actual stone houses in north America, only those fake panels on the outside.
AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
There are plenty here in the south west
Obi@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Looked it up, didn’t find much but did find this, these look like made of stone indeed but maybe it’s because they’re thinner? When I think of stone houses I think of things like this with very thick walls, we have these in all the really hot countries like Italy, Spain, southern France etc and I can confirm they stay cool inside even when it’s 40°c outside.
AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Our brick is usually brick, then some wood frame bolted to that, then insulation in the gaps, and dry wall. The insulation is pretty good, but the issue is usually the roof, and the windows being older than double pane tech. So they let the heat in and then cook, badly.
But yeah we don’t have much stone like that picture. Usually we use concrete if we want walls that thick. Concrete + HVAC works very well here because there’s not a lot of humidity.