Comment on Wait, my body's own heat is enough? Always has been.

BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Nothing wrong with wood as a construction material. The key factor is the insulation.

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• fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is… Uninformed.

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• dafo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  looks around at countless houses made from wood I guess northern Sweden, which gets below -30°c every year, lost its European status.

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• Fosheze@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You do realize that there’s insulation in those walls right. That’s the whole point of wood frame construction; you stuff the gaps between studs full of several inches of insulation. Besides, most of a homes heat loss isn’t through the walls anyways. It’s through any openings in those walls (windows, doors, etc) and through the roof.

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  • el_abuelo@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Isn’t the whole point of woodframe construction to use wood?

    Europeans still have insulation in the wall cavity.

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    • MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Isn’t the whole point of woodframe construction to use wood?

      Well, no. Not as such. The point was to not use brick. Wood was just very useful, cheap, and could be made uniform. Very similar to brick if near a brick factory. Cheaper if not near cheap but heavy bricks.

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  • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    More insulation, double or even triple glassed windows. My in-laws have half the insulation on the walls compared to my parents, roof wise my parents got 2.5 ft insulation

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• IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Such ignorant shit Image

  ./confidentlyincorrect

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• cheers_queers@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  nobody can afford that here lol

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  • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Stop with this nonsense. This is the financial illiteracy that is being pointed out how Democrats lost because of the “economy”.

    Housing purchasing went up in price for a short while but stopped increasing so rapidly. More Gen Z owns their home by 30 than millennials. The rate is on par with gen x.

    Most people in this country can afford a house and the upper third can afford very very nice houses.

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    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well good for them. I sure as fuck can’t.

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      • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Will clearly you represent everyone and nobody all at once.

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    • Adm_Drummer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Source?

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      • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        economist.com/…/generation-z-is-unprecedentedly-r…

        You can dig the direct numbers out from opm as well.

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• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Wood is a better insulator than brick actually. Sitting outside in the winter on a wooden bench would feel warmer than on one made of brick even if they are at the same temperature.

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• BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It does not have to be brick and mortar. The house with the best insulation I know is made of wood and straw bales.

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