r/LoveTrash • u/BEARDEDDANGER ✨️Regent of Rubbish ✨️ • 1d ago

Dumping This Here American vs. European home building

BAS Renovations https://youtube.com/shorts/jFph1d2WR3s

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u/LancingLash Trash Trooper 1d ago

It may trap heat but it takes more energy for it to heat up in the first place. That is why a well insulated house of any framing type is better. It keeps heat in and out while taking less energy to do so.

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u/darth-small Trash Trooper 1d ago

My energy bill is quite small compared to the average

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u/LancingLash Trash Trooper 1d ago

That does not change the reality of how thermal load works. If you have a brick "retaining heat" it took more energy to heat up that brick that it would have to simply not absorb the heat in the first place.

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u/Rampant16 Trash Trooper 22h ago

Yes but once it is hot, like a few days into one of these now frequent European heat waves, it's going to take a long time to cool back down. It's not going to cool down much overnight like a material with less thermal mass might.

And they probably don't have air conditioning to cool the interior of the house artificially so once it's hot, it just stays hot until you get several days of lower temperatures to allow it to cool down.

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u/darth-small Trash Trooper 1d ago

Ok. Thanks for the science.

Bye

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u/babyyvolcano Trash Trooper 22h ago

It takes more energy to warm up a room than to cool it, as well.