Is this sarcasm ? because sounds like sarcasm.
If Grok generating naked images of children is your ideea of free speech no wonder nobody takes a stand against Trump and Co., you somehow managed turn your common sense to dust...
If you think house prices are a joke now, just wait 2-3 years.
I'm actually a structural engineer with a passion for passive houses and went into programming 8 years ago. I designed and built a lot of houses and I know what you're talking about.. the house builders chase profits disregarding any laws.
IMHO the best thing is to buy a lot and build yourself the house, this way you are sure that you get what you want.
House prices per sqm in Romania based on average net earnings per month is lower than ever, lower than 2014 when price per sqm were at the lowest after the 2008 financial crisis.
Why don't you consider buying the house with a bank loan? it's the best decision to do so even if you have all the money... if you talk with a financial consultant you'll see why.
Housing prices are not out of control, we are lagging years behind other European countries in regard with house prices.
If you look on the numbers you will see that this is actually a good time to buy a house in Romania.
Whatever you thought you learned from wikipedia, forget it. The trick is not to use GM graft commercial varieties from ordinary grocery supply chains. If possible, get a graft from a mature noncommercial tree because it will produce fruit much faster than waiting 7 years or so to get fruit starting from a pit. Commercial pits can grow into trees, but their yields are bad because of evolutionary and GM pressures. As an experiment for kids, growing commercial pits
is fine but it will be more of a decorative and science project than a microfarming hack.
Just yesterday my father's Philips CPAP was replaced after more than a year of complaints to Philips Romania.
Thanks to HN I read an article that said Philips put a lot of money aside for Respironics issues and this made me investigate further.
If it wasn't for HN I wouldn't have found out and most probably Philips Romania would have ignored the issue, so thank you HN!
After the NYT article [0] I purchased (rented) my own domain, created a cloudflare account and started using their email routing to forward all the email to my gmail address. I also configured gmail to allow me to send emails from the new email address.
As I have a small child and use a lot the telemedicine services I do have a fear that I will be blocked soon.
A drawback to this is that cloudflare does not allow you to forward to multiple email addresses.
You need a separate hot water tank and a 3-way valve, when hot water is requested the hot water from heat-pump will get diverted into the hot water tank (puffer).
1. I would start by lowering the ceiling and insulating it. For ceiling if you insulate it using mineral wool, or glass wool... the vapor barrier [0] is critical and must be placed continuously on the warm part. Also this membrane (preferably containing aluminum so that you get back some of the heat) must be glued to the walls using special glue [1]
2. I would change the windows, with at least triple pane. The windows must be mounted correctly (see RAL montage) and also must be placed aligned with the outside face of the wall.
3. I would take out the floor, and do hydronic underfloor heating with EPS150 or XPS as insulation substrate.
what price do you think we're looking at for each of these? lowering the ceiling is a bit of a bummer from a looks perspective. underfloor heating sounds wonderful.
You're welcome!
I live in Europe (Romania) and to be honest I would not know what to expect in terms of costs.
You lose at least 25% of your energy trough the roof, this can even go up to 30-35% if the ceiling is cracked or air is able to circulate freely trough it.
I want to also to highlight the importance of the building airtightness (Air Changes per Hour) on the energy consumption needed for heating.
I saw an example at some point in one of PassivHaus presentation and it was like this:
0.3 ACH -> 1.74 kWh/m2year (for a 100 sqm house means, 174 kwh per year for heating)
0.6 ACH -> 3.49 kWh/m2year (PassivHaus limit)
1.0 ACH -> 5.81 kWh/m2year
1.5 ACH -> 8.72 kWh/m2year (Low energy house limit)
4.5 ACH -> 26.5 kWh/m2*year (typical house)
This is for the same house with the same insulation. Of course you cannot achieve this kind of airtightness without careful planning and using a lot of self-adhesive tape (SIGA, ROTHOBLASS and other manufactures that can guarantee its effectiveness up to 50 years)
