So I moved into my new house a while back. It’s relatively old as fuck and built with wood. And jesus it gets cold in here. Like, I knew it’d be colder on average than a concrete house, but god damn. It was just below freezing outside yesterday, and the inside temp dropped to like 14°C in one of the rooms. Tossed a few logs on the fire (extremely cozy, an impeccable vibe) and turned on a space heater in the bedroom, so it was alright by bedtime. I was hoping I wouldn’t have to use the space heaters at all before we get an AC heating thing machine installed, but the process is taking forever. Once we get that installed I’m gonna make a bunch of temperature/humidity sensors with whatever microcontroller is the cheapest and place them around the house and make a bunch of scripts to adjust the temperature automagically. It’s gonna be sick. It’s a lot of effort compared to living in an apartment building, but one million percent worth it to never have to deal with landlords again.
Oh yes, it is indeed extremely god damn leaky, especially on the top floor where the bedrooms are. There no doors between any of the rooms either for some reason (previous owner not a fan of privacy???), so I think the draft goes right through the whole floor. The previous owner had a guy come over with a heat-sensing camera and identify the leakiest spots, so we’re gonna plug them up with some bullshit when we have time. We’re gonna have to redo the insulation there anyway at some point in the near future (some earlier owner has fucked up the insulation between the outer roof and the inner ceiling, it’s not ventilated properly so the condensation water could/will soak into the insulation), so we’ll deal with it “properly” then.