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Post by alex992 on Dec 14, 2017 17:54:38 GMT -5
Ottawa's crummer was a piece of shit. Lovely for polar bears, salmon, and penguins. Wow that location in the Azores really could be considered one of the most comfortable climates in the world, you really don't need aircon or heating. And the tiny difference between the absolute temps and the averages. Same latitude as Melbourne. It depends how their houses are built, those winter temperatures are similar to here on the coast in Malta & we need some heating as homes are built with a single layer of block limestone, no insulation, no central heating, stone floors & they will be humid like here too so damp. It often feels warmer outside here in the winter lol Lol, Malta sounds like it has even less insulation than South FL, might be because our cold snaps are stronger? What has been your coldest indoor temp so far? Even way down here, most homes have heating systems even though 99.7% of the time you're not using it. Even when we do get cold snaps, I don't turn on heating here....I open up windows and let the fresh air pour in. I'm not a huge fan of a warm house. |
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Post by flamingGalah on Dec 15, 2017 16:42:53 GMT -5
It depends how their houses are built, those winter temperatures are similar to here on the coast in Malta & we need some heating as homes are built with a single layer of block limestone, no insulation, no central heating, stone floors & they will be humid like here too so damp. It often feels warmer outside here in the winter lol Lol, Malta sounds like it has even less insulation than South FL, might be because our cold snaps are stronger? What has been your coldest indoor temp so far? Even way down here, most homes have heating systems even though 99.7% of the time you're not using it. Even when we do get cold snaps, I don't turn on heating here....I open up windows and let the fresh air pour in. I'm not a huge fan of a warm house. Not sure what the coldest indoor temperature has been as don't keep much of a check on it, but it's never that much warmer inside than it is outside. Right now it's 18.5C outside & 21.8C inside... Yeah I don't like it too warm inside either & I can't sleep unless the bedroom window is open, even in the UK I used to leave it open a little even in winter. The difference here to the UK though is that our coolest weather in winter is when it is wet, when it's sunny it is usually quite warm & the sunshine warm the house up through the windows too. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2017 2:10:27 GMT -5
Only use a single fireplace to heat the house (220 square metres), although it also heats the water -no issues with cold, and open doors and windows during winter days , take care of humidity. Will be building another place within 2-3 years, and don't intend on doing much different this time for heating, although might get a better solar water heating system.
Heading back to Aussie in another few weeks, for another dose of living in a tin shed, with only a fan for cooling -last time reminded me that even though I'm not a fan of hot summers, I still operate well in heat.
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Post by nei on Dec 29, 2017 23:14:52 GMT -5
are the old homes well insulated? Old New England homes are drafty. I'm in a 110+ year old house with probably original windows… I don't know how well they were isolated when built originally. If they weren't, then they would get renovated I guess. All homes are well isolated, and in all homes there are either radiators and/or they have a so called pellet burner although that's not as common. And at least in Umeå, all apartments at least use what's called "fjärrvärme" (remote heat) which means the heat gathered from the burning of trash in a huge facility is used to heat our houses. That's the reason why Sweden is known to import garbage from other countries like Norway. We burn more garbage than we produce ourselves actually. where I come from, the Mafia tried to export local garbage to other countries en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobro_4000 |
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