Heating the Home with Plastic
"Nearly 12 percent of Americans say they will need to borrow money to pay winter heating bills; 9 percent will need to use credit cards to be able to afford their heating bills."
What?!!
posted by Howard at 10:48 PM
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The "great room" was a scourge on all American homes, from a heating perspective. "Where's the heat ?" "About 20 feet up there."
Great rooms? Don't get me started!
Oops, too late. You're right -- great rooms are impossible to heat efficiently. Not to mention the terrible acoustics. Not to mention the discomfort that people feel when hanging out in a room so tall. Not to mention the difficulty in decorating such a huge space. Not to mention all the heat-loss through the massive wall of windows invariably set into it. Not to mention how the two-story spaces so effectively transmit sound throughout the ENTIRE house!
So why are houses built with great rooms? Because they're impressive to potential home-buyers. Afterwards come the regrets. I wonder how many people who have lived in a home with a great room go on to buy another house with the same pit of acoustical doom?
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me!
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