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In Northern Europe the way new houses are built today is a masonry structure and then that's wrapped with rigid foam insulation on the outside (also under the f
by fy20 4y ago
In Northern Europe the way new houses are built today is a masonry structure and then that's wrapped with rigid foam insulation on the outside (also under the floor and roof, but wrapping the walls is the bulk of it). My city is in the process of retrofitting 50yo Soviet apartment blocks with the same technique, and it works well.
The hard part is not technical or financial, it is convincing someone to change the look of their 250yo stone house.
- danans 4y ago> The hard part is not technical or financial, it is convincing someone to change the look of their 250yo stone house. If one is willing to give up a bit of interior space in order to keep the charming stone exterior, they can also insulate on the interior of the wall, probably with some kind of vapor barrier between the stone wall and the insulation to keep condensation on the cold stone wall away from the interior.
- fy20 4y agoThe tricky part is these houses are probably already small to begin with. In the village I grew up in, there were old houses with ceilings where I (1.80m) couldn't stand up straight.
- danans 4y agoIf the house is old enough that a 1.8m person can't stand up in it, unless it has tremendous cultural/historical value, it should probably be torn down and replaced with a newer building.