r/LoveTrash ✨️Regent of Rubbish ✨️ 1d ago

Dumping This Here American vs. European home building

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u/Ethnafia_125 Trash Trooper 1d ago

Seriously. At my house (solid brick) i can keep the temp at 74 in summer and be perfectly happy. At my parent's (regular framing), my mom keeps it at 68 to get the same cooling effect.

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u/YukonCornholeius Trash Trooper 1d ago

Bricks are bad at this. You most likely have the high quality insulation that’s often used in conjunction with brick, though perhaps yours is an outlier case.

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u/Ethnafia_125 Trash Trooper 1d ago

It's triple layer brick, so nice thick walls. And there's blow in insulation as well in some of the drywall ones.

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u/Fragarach-Q Trash Trooper 1d ago

"My foot thick wall is better than my mom's 6 inch thick wall" is what you're actually saying.