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AC heating isn't exactly cheap. I'm in Australia and it costs me around 300 aud a month in winter to keep the house around 21 about half of every day. I often wake up to a house that's between 4 and 10 degrees celcius. I have rooftop solar too. Heating in general is expensive.
Until gas prices went nuts it made way more sense to use gas for heating. We didn't even bother with AC prior because even when it hits 50C I'm cruising, a cold shower and a nap sets you right if you're used to it.
Yeah, I lived in a double brick 2 storey terrace house in NSW, and it was difficult to control the temperature without spending a lot of money.
Well, as one of the end houses anyway. For the terrace houses sandwiched between the others, they have the benefit of having very little surface area exposed to the elements
I always assumed the verticality of terrace houses would allow for evaporative coolers to work, but I never did get a chance to try.
I was thinking about thermal isolation when I mentioned the fascades.
Some buildings need very little energy to stay at comfortable temperatures.
True, building codes are hard to change because moneied interests like building shitboxes and like the entire landlord philosophy is spend nothing take everything.
Everyone should be building passive solar homes where possible though
They are building new buildings like this but those are getting talked to shit. Too blocky, concrete desert (bushes and lawns next to every building but who's counting). Then you walk inside and it has 25° during the hottest day of the summer even though the floor cooling hasn't even been connected yet.
Vexing.
My dream is a concrete home half dug into the earth with bushfire shutters. Would be pretty chill being comfortable year round and not having to evacuate every couple of years.
People whinge about functional houses a lot.