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How would that work? Average temperature in the UK is about 15 C. If your house is at 24 C, this would mean you are constantly leaking heat into the ground from
by Gravityloss 5y ago
How would that work? Average temperature in the UK is about 15 C. If your house is at 24 C, this would mean you are constantly leaking heat into the ground from the bottom...
I guess one can consider the cube of earth an insulator, it's got a lousy insulation value per meter but it makes it up in thickness.
- arethuza 5y agoDon't think 15C is correct - looks more like 8.5C to 11C in England and 7C to 9C in Scotland. http://projectbritain.com/weather/average.htm http://projectbritain.com/weather/average.htm
- a_square_peg 5y agoYou can look up ground temperature for your location here - https://weatherdownloader.oikolab.com/downloader https://weatherdownloader.oikolab.com/downloader. Layer 4 is between 1m to 3m depth beneath the surface.
- arethuza 5y agoApologies, I didn't appreciate you meant average temperature underground - that is definitely much warmer. We have a ventilation shaft for an old limestone mine near our house and on a cold day the warm air rising from it is very noticeable.
- a_square_peg 5y agoI wasn't the commenter so no worries about apologies... just wanted to point out where you can find this information. :)
- Gravityloss 5y agoSorry, I was wrong indeed, thanks for the correction