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Old 09-03-2023, 20:12   #2113
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Re: The energy crisis

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Originally Posted by nomadking View Post
Apart from those in the colder, northern end, how much of Scandinavian houses of the past, were well insulated? They have plenty of trees to burn.


In the past, the whole house was rarely heated. People gathered in 1 or 2 rooms.
Well, when I lived in West Berlin in the 70s and 80s, the flats we were in in RAF Gatow (which had been built in the 50s) had triple glazing, between floor insulation, wall insulation, and thick insulated doors at the entrance to the building and the individual flats, and when I visited colleagues in other parts of West Berlin, that seemed standard…
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