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A building loses heat and coolness through the walls to the outside. In a house you have 5 sides to lose heat and coldness thru. In an apt like mine, I have only one side exposed to the outside. I have a common hallway on one side, and other apts on the other sides. So even if I don't turn on my Heating/cooling systems, I can basically not lose much due to everything outside my walls being in the 70's.
A building loses heat and coolness through the walls to the outside. In a house you have 5 sides to lose heat and coldness thru. In an apt like mine, I have only one side exposed to the outside. I have a common hallway on one side, and other apts on the other sides. So even if I don't turn on my Heating/cooling systems, I can basically not lose much due to everything outside my walls being in the 70's.
A building loses heat and coolness through the walls to the outside. In a house you have 5 sides to lose heat and coldness thru. In an apt like mine, I have only one side exposed to the outside. I have a common hallway on one side, and other apts on the other sides. So even if I don't turn on my Heating/cooling systems, I can basically not lose much due to everything outside my walls being in the 70's.
Congratulations. You've discovered one way of justifying apartment living.
A building loses heat and coolness through the walls to the outside. In a house you have 5 sides to lose heat and coldness thru. In an apt like mine, I have only one side exposed to the outside. I have a common hallway on one side, and other apts on the other sides. So even if I don't turn on my Heating/cooling systems, I can basically not lose much due to everything outside my walls being in the 70's.
And watermelons are bigger than blueberries. Your point?
Congratulations. You've discovered one way of justifying apartment living.
Except this isn’t always the case. Apartment complexes don’t always update or maintain their HVAC units, so you can end up with wildly inefficient systems. In a home, you can update/maintain it as you see fit. I just moved out of an apartment in Chicagoland that was ridiculously expensive to heat/cool because it had inefficient windows, had an HVAC that was not maintained at all, and appears to be from when the building was built in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s. I spent more to heat/cool the apartment as my parents in Florida spent to heat/cool a place twice the size, with walls of windows and an electric water heater. It did an awful job dehumidifying, so I had to use a dehumidifier most of the time. FWIW, I was living in a downstairs, interior unit, so it should not have cost that much to cool the unit.
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