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250sqm, 30cm thick brick for load bearing + perimeter walls, 30cm rockwool continuous external insulation, aluminium frame triple pane windows, glazured roof ti

250sqm, 30cm thick brick for load bearing + perimeter walls, 30cm rockwool continuous external insulation, aluminium frame triple pane windows, glazured roof tiles, floor heating + wood stove backup, 15kwp solar panels installation, deep well backup, etc. Keep being smug, it just proves my point, Americans still think Arabs live in tents in the desert, Chinese live in the jungle and eastern European build houses out of cow dung and straw. Enjoy your 1m+ stick and cardboard mcmansion that won't last two generations

barbacoa 2mo ago
>250sqm, 30cm thick brick for load bearing + perimeter walls, 30cm rockwool continuous external insulation, aluminium frame triple pane windows, glazured roof tiles, floor heating + wood stove backup, 15kwp solar panels installation, deep well backup, etc. Even in Mississippi what you describe would not qualify as a "top of the line house". In fact that would be pretty average working class home. The kind of homes a lawyer or doctor could afford to buy in low cost area like mississippi can easily be 2 or 3x that size and resemble small castles. Think elevators and wrap around double staircases.
- toasty228 2mo ago
  Sure buddy, last time I was in the states I witness your glorious single pane sliding windows that weren't even air tight and shitty vinyl flooring that we don't even install in social housing here, that was in a multi million dollar house in Berkley btw. Oh and I forgot, it passes passivhaus requirements
  - barbacoa 2mo ago
    Berkley is defiantly not representative to most of the USA. They have strange regional politics that restricts most residential construction.
- hdgvhicv 2mo ago
  American houses are made of paper. They need reroofing so often the cost always comes up in discussion of house ownership.
  - stufffer 2mo ago
    Europeans think they have it hard worrying if their elderly family will die from the summer heat, but they will never know the pain of maintaining a 10 ton, 4 zone HVAC system for your mcmansion.
    - dismalaf 2mo ago
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      - cindyllm 2mo ago
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      - hdgvhicv 2mo ago
        It’s the US that arrests people for mean tweets. When you have 3 days a year when temperatures reach 25C inside I’m not sure why you would bother installing AC. As that is changing, AC is becoming more popular.
    - hdgvhicv 2mo ago
      My friend’s inflaws have an old house in France. They’ve just had an air-air AC system installed, are you saying AC isn’t available in Europe?
nozzlegear 2mo ago
> Keep being smug, it just proves my point, I wasn't trying to be smug, sorry it came across that way.
stephenitis 2mo ago
How much did it cost?
- toasty228 2mo ago
  About $100 per sqf, using literally the best material I could find for the envelope and most things, the tiles will last hundreds of years, the insulation is 50% thicker than most builds in the area, the windows are top of the line passivhaus certified, etc.. The only thing I couldn't get was hardwood floor but this was mostly due to the heating floor

barbacoa 2mo ago

>250sqm, 30cm thick brick for load bearing + perimeter walls, 30cm rockwool continuous external insulation, aluminium frame triple pane windows, glazured roof tiles, floor heating + wood stove backup, 15kwp solar panels installation, deep well backup, etc. Even in Mississippi what you describe would not qualify as a "top of the line house". In fact that would be pretty average working class home. The kind of homes a lawyer or doctor could afford to buy in low cost area like mississippi can easily be 2 or 3x that size and resemble small castles. Think elevators and wrap around double staircases.

toasty228 2mo ago
Sure buddy, last time I was in the states I witness your glorious single pane sliding windows that weren't even air tight and shitty vinyl flooring that we don't even install in social housing here, that was in a multi million dollar house in Berkley btw. Oh and I forgot, it passes passivhaus requirements
- barbacoa 2mo ago
  Berkley is defiantly not representative to most of the USA. They have strange regional politics that restricts most residential construction.
hdgvhicv 2mo ago
American houses are made of paper. They need reroofing so often the cost always comes up in discussion of house ownership.
- stufffer 2mo ago
  Europeans think they have it hard worrying if their elderly family will die from the summer heat, but they will never know the pain of maintaining a 10 ton, 4 zone HVAC system for your mcmansion.
  - dismalaf 2mo ago
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    - cindyllm 2mo ago
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    - hdgvhicv 2mo ago
      It’s the US that arrests people for mean tweets. When you have 3 days a year when temperatures reach 25C inside I’m not sure why you would bother installing AC. As that is changing, AC is becoming more popular.
  - hdgvhicv 2mo ago
    My friend’s inflaws have an old house in France. They’ve just had an air-air AC system installed, are you saying AC isn’t available in Europe?

nozzlegear 2mo ago

> Keep being smug, it just proves my point, I wasn't trying to be smug, sorry it came across that way.

stephenitis 2mo ago

How much did it cost?

toasty228 2mo ago
About $100 per sqf, using literally the best material I could find for the envelope and most things, the tiles will last hundreds of years, the insulation is 50% thicker than most builds in the area, the windows are top of the line passivhaus certified, etc.. The only thing I couldn't get was hardwood floor but this was mostly due to the heating floor