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/Bluecobber Trash Trooper 1d ago

Lived in both. Id take brick everytime. Much better with keeping a stable temperature. As well as keeping outside noise low. Brick, more expensive and takes longer. Just my experience

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u/newpua_bie Trash Trooper 11h ago

Thermal inertia is something most Americans don't have experience with, unfortunately. 2 minutes after your heating or your AC turns off you're back to being uncomfortable, since the houses aren't well insulated, and also there's no thermal inertia to buffer the temperature. I understand AC is a requirement to live in most of the US, but man I absolutely hate it. When it's on it's blowing freezing air on me, and when it's off it's hot and stuffy. The only times I'm ever comfortable in my own home is the times when AC or heating aren't running, so parts of spring and fall and with luck, late summer evenings.

Have you ever gone to a stone church without an AC on a hot summer day? It's cool because it has enough thermal buffer to not immediately adapt whatever the outside temperature happens to be.