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This is pretty normal for houses in Europe which often have masonry walls, but I can understand how it could be strange for North Americans. I'm in the process
by fy20 4y ago
This is pretty normal for houses in Europe which often have masonry walls, but I can understand how it could be strange for North Americans.
I'm in the process of building a house - it has windows and is nearly fully insulated, but there is nothing done inside yet (the floor is sand). In September we had a cold patch of 10C maximum for a few days, and on the last day I went to see how warm it was inside the house. The masonry on the south wall was 17C, and on the north 15C - and that was with some windows open upstairs. Masonry takes an awfully long time to respond to temperature changes.
- SigmundA 4y agoI have masonry walls in FL, US but with little insulation since my house was built in the 1950's. Masonry is pretty common in the US especially on the first floor. My house has a lot of thermal mass so the sun will shine all day on the block walls and heat it up and it takes a while to cool back down at night. It does smooth out the temp swings, but bottom line my air conditioner must remove the BTU's that make it into the house, and it's a lot. Obviously having much more insulation helps, and ideally you would want the thermal mass inside the insulation, so insulation on the outside of blocks. Then in a cold climate you need the irradiance from the sun to go through windows and heat the interior having the interior thermal mass absorb the heat while minimizing temperature rise.