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    1 year ago

    Be careful which direction big windows face. If they get the afternoon sun in summer it becomes more difficult and expensive to keep your house a comfortable temperature

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      The house I grew up in had northwest facing windows, I’m still scarred by the memories of furnace-like conditions over summer. It’s probably a large part of my interest in sustainable design, I know how terrible badly designed houses can be!

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        1 year ago

        Same. Some of them would be fine if just built the other way around… but gotta squeeze as many as possible into a lot, sun direction be damned. The people who profit aren’t the ones who have to live with it 🙃

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          This was the 80’s in a new suburb - the relevant factors in siting the house was which way was facing the street. The main priority behing the design in general was many rooms you could pack in for the lowest cost possible. I don’t think we’ve improved a lot since then, but at least insulation has become standard, not an add on sold by a dodgy door to door salesman.