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Currently at my grandparents' house in eastern France, with snow on the ground and below-freezing temperatures for the past several days. The entire house is quite chilly and my room on the top floor can't be more than 15°C, maybe even down to around 10°C at night. Can't wait to get back to my 25°C apartment in Vancouver this weekend
Taped up the windows already. All our buildings are made out of solid stone, no wall cavities, no insulation in the 300 year old building and no plans by the landlord to install it. You warm one room and leave the others cold unless you are a millionaire and can afford to heat the whole thing. This building like most here will get an F energy efficiency rating. Just the way it is here.
My rent is £300 a month for a two bedroom 600sq/ft flat but the building is 300 yr old and in original condition, it is still a good deal. You just pay more on heat.
My house up on corbar road was no different. Even after double glaze window and insulation. Got down to 6 degrees afew times in there. In fact it was down to 4 degrees in March/April 2013.
Taped up the windows already. All our buildings are made out of solid stone, no wall cavities, no insulation in the 300 year old building and no plans by the landlord to install it. You warm one room and leave the others cold unless you are a millionaire and can afford to heat the whole thing. This building like most here will get an F energy efficiency rating. Just the way it is here.
My rent is £300 a month for a two bedroom 600sq/ft flat but the building is 300 yr old and in original condition, it is still a good deal. You just pay more on heat.
My house up on corbar road was no different. Even after double glaze window and insulation. Got down to 6 degrees afew times in there. In fact it was down to 4 degrees in March/April 2013.
And no gas furnace, I take it? Even by US standards, electric heat is horribly expensive - I'd be heating room-by-room too if I didn't have gas.
As for my preferred room temp, I like it at 60 (15 C) at night, and I never run the heat more than 64 in the daytime (18 C) - any higher than that, I start to feel discomfort from being "too hot" although it really isn't. Will I be able to achieve the ultimate challenge of keeping my monthly heating bill below $100 this winter? I'm sure as hell gonna try...lol.
My bedroom was at 10.1ºC this morning when I woke up, now I'm in my living room where it's 14.6ºC, 2 meters away from the fireplace.
My house is always below 20ºC, even in the peak of summer heatwaves, because it's made of granite, it's not unusual to have 4ºC in the garage.
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