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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ah, so it’s the same name in Portuguese. Conduítes.
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.
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.