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I know the air-tight-ness is an important part of the Passivhaus standard. My apartment is pretty airtight, to the point there's a decent amount of pressure on the front door if you run the kitchen extractor fan. It pops open when you turn the handle. Compared to the draughty flats I lived in in London it's fantastic. Due to builder fuckups we didn't actually have any heating initially and it was not really noticeable, until midwinter I guess when it got down to 19°C in the apartment.
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So how much do you pay for this ~prison level accommodation?
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Leperflesh posted:Also, in the states, we graduate high school at 18 and go straight to college or university (which are more or less the same thing here), where as in the UK you graduate at 16, go to college for 2 years, and then go to uni. Lol that's not really how it works. Some people do call the final 2 years of school "college" but it's not analogous to a US college.
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Party Boat posted:Our house needed a lot of work doing when we moved in and I had a real existential moment when I had to fix a floorboard upstairs while there was a hole in the plaster of the ceiling underneath, meaning I could see all the way through to the hallway floor. This is triggering me about living in a 1930s flat in south London, absolutely zero noise insulation from the one upstairs. They removed the carpet and clomped around in high heels shouting at their dog. Amusingly the guy was extremely white and the woman was not, and he seemed to prefer to dress in vaguely colonial clothes when they rarely ventured into the garden. Not quite a pith helmet but not far off.
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Aug 18, 2023 11:42
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Believe it or not there are also houses in the UK that are more than 60 years old.
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Sep 3, 2023 20:36
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will these hands ne'er be clean?
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The heat pump doesn't mind whether the thermostats are letting water through ineach room, it just keeps the hot-side water at a constant temperature. If everything is warm enough the pump just shuts off. Not wanting to be able to control the heat in each room is a bit odd imo. People like their bedrooms at different temperatures. I bet the system doesn't perfuse each circuit equally either.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Our heat pump bases what it does on external temperature sensor, not an internal one. I think people are weirdly spoiled to bother about a few degrees here or there. If you look in the settings you'll probably find it does both. You set the curve to modulate what the heating circuit temp gets to based on the outside temp. https://pubdb.bfe.admin.ch/en/publication/download/9982 Also lol "spoiled" you must be fun to be around
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Sep 15, 2023 11:23
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pokeyman posted:Flashbacks of mum saying "it's cold in here" and dad pointing to the thermostat saying "it's 21°C". Draughty room, dad should have taped the seams up better
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Sep 15, 2023 16:39
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The Cyberhaus can serve briefly as a boat
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Sep 15, 2023 17:52
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No thanks
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Sep 16, 2023 20:40
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Prototypical british jobsworth
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Houses with slate / tile fascias on my dog walk: Those are not good looking houses
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Nov 5, 2023 15:57
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The Russians simply used a lock House is looking good, the cladding is going to need some treatment though right? Round these parts in the Alps pretty much all wood is stained dark brown which does last for ages but I think would make this house look a bit dingy.
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Cybergutters
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His Divine Shadow posted:I don't believe that, rooftop solar is also pretty terrible from what I've read, and solar in general is terrible in european latitudes. 
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~Coxy posted:I'm desperately looking for an L-shaped couch that isn't a sectional and ideally does not have a useless sofa bed in it. I have one from Bolia that I really like. Very customisable and no sofa bed. They're a little bit expensive but worth it imo
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Sticky Date posted:Yeah, I finished this small side table a week ago and it was very challenging even with access to a very nice table saw. That's gorgeous. Congrats
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LloydDobler posted:We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they'd be easy! quick and easy
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pokeyman posted:It's true! I got to my parents' for the holidays and heard "heat pumps don't work here" within a day, completely unprompted. Where is that? Better be Alaska or somewhere similar
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Dec 22, 2023 20:59
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Well exactly. Mine is just fine up here at 1700m in the Alps.
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No they have a resistive electric heater as a backup which is obviously much less efficient. But you still get heating. I don't think mine has ever come on.
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Dec 23, 2023 08:25
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You also need to have the heat pump unit in a sensible location, mine is under the terrace (on a very steep hill) and I think it doesn't get that cold under there. It gets pretty cold up here a few times through winter. The house construction is obviously important, this is a new build place with good insulation and it doesn't cost very much to heat at all. Gratuitous chalet phot: 
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Messadiah posted:3 story shed.
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Dec 23, 2023 20:53
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No, also unlikely to need much heating in mid summer
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Jaded Burnout posted:wires what the gently caress are they for?
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3.6 roentgen, not great, not terrible
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"A quick and easy build"
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