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Yeah, I noticed they mentioned needing heating for about that long. But, really, they didn't explicitly call that winter. Nor should they.
No need to be pedantic, it's cold 9 months in a year, and that's the point we are trying to make here.
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I am a little confused about this fear people have of mold and mildew in their houses. Up until very recently people's houses weren't far off from the outside environment. Generally in the summer the best they did was keep the rain out and provide some shade. Houses weren't uninhabitable mold pits back then, why would they be now?
There is some additional risk with modern homes being much better sealed than old homes which always had some air moving through it. If you don't have a proper HVAC system and use like electric heaters instead of forced air, humidity levels can build up and slowly absorb into materials if you don't have enough airflow, and you likely won't notice, unless maybe the dew point gets high enough that all of a sudden every…
I’ve seen this turn into a problem with big renovation of old residential structures twice. My personal takeaway was make sure your envelope and HVAC are of roughly equivalent quality and era.
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No need to be pedantic, it's cold 9 months in a year, and that's the point we are trying to make here.
Then write that. Saying winter lasts 9 months is nonsense and nonsense in journalism should be pointed out, though not as aggressively perhaps.
This house was the subject of a Kirsten Dirksen video in 2015: https://youtube.com/watch?v=30ghnDOFbNQ
I wonder how much money it would cost to figure out whether you are allowed to build such a construction in Germany at all.
This reminds me of an apartment complex I saw last year, also in Sweden (north of Stockholm, in Norrtälje). Hard to see inside, but it's practically tropical, with palm trees and flowering plants, and all doors of resident's apartments let out into the garden. https://goo.gl/maps/C7QAYeFm4bc9X28r9
There's an entire year-round indoor beach with bungalows and a small forest near Berlin: https://www.tropical-islands.de/en/ Better photos e.g. here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236995/The-worlds-... I'm sure it needs plenty of energy, but I'd also bet the glass dome plays its role. Found it online when was again thinking about how to live through the northern winter.
So much that it has its own power plant, as far as I know.
Environmental issues aside, pretty cool to stand there in swimming trunks when it's -10 outside and there's half a metre of snow against the glass walls though.
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There's an entire year-round indoor beach with bungalows and a small forest near Berlin: https://www.tropical-islands.de/en/ Better photos e.g. here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236995/The-worlds-... I'm sure it needs plenty of energy, but I'd also bet the glass dome plays its role. Found it online when was again thinking about how to live through the northern winter.
> I'm sure it needs plenty of energy So much that it has its own power plant, as far as I know. Environmental issues aside, pretty cool to stand there in swimming trunks when it's -10 outside and there's half a metre of snow against the glass walls though.
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Then write that. Saying winter lasts 9 months is nonsense and nonsense in journalism should be pointed out, though not as aggressively perhaps.
No, its far from nonsense, it makes the article more fun and interesting or maybe the author has different definition of winter. They are not writing formal academic paper.
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I think you've been here long enough to know that a phrase like "automatically and without exception" is likely a poor interpretation of what the parent poster meant with "standard household activity". I was born and raised in Florida. In Miami I lived in a 1950s house designed w/o A/C and with effectively no insulation. In Tallahassee I lived in a 1970s house designed for A/C. But we didn't have money, so we didn't…
I think you've been here long enough to know that a phrase like "automatically and without exception" is likely a poor interpretation of what the parent poster meant with "standard household activity". I'm damned if I do, damned if I don't. It doesn't matter how I phrase it, people will have a problem with my real point and will have a problem with me giving first-hand testimony from my life. So I tried to avoid that…
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I think you've been here long enough to know that a phrase like "automatically and without exception" is likely a poor interpretation of what the parent poster meant with "standard household activity". I'm damned if I do, damned if I don't. It doesn't matter how I phrase it, people will have a problem with my real point and will have a problem with me giving first-hand testimony from my life. So I tried to avoid that…
I'm a male with a literally randomly-selected username and have stopped posting here because of just the kind of thing you cite. It feels too much like school...it's this project to figure out what to say that people will like; fail to please the mob and out come the vultures. Life's too short and full of more wonderful adventures than that. And the payoff from getting it right just isn't there to justify the downsid…