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Wandering about your house naked and buildings
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I like to plod about naked in the house.
It feels like freedom.
Sadly there are complications for this indoor naturist lifestyle, namely neighbours (howdy neighbour!) and more importantly: IT IS COLD. Esp. on foots.
Then I see online these houses called Passive Houses. They are totally warm all year around, no drafts of cold air, floors warm to the touch. Install some smart windows that can be turned off and you're set.
I'm sold. This is the future. What do you chaps think? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I love it!
Sadly the family that came to view my house on Friday took rather a dim view of it...."
That must be the creeping fascism my younger cousin keeps talking about. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Id love underfloor heating.I Get a glimpse of it when I step on a bit of the floor that has a central heating pipe run under it. "
Extrasensory perception! 
I have a nice Japanese robe (it's longer than normal) and a pair of comfy LL Bean slippers so this winter hasn't been so bad.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Id love underfloor heating.I Get a glimpse of it when I step on a bit of the floor that has a central heating pipe run under it.
Extrasensory perception!
I have a nice Japanese robe (it's longer than normal) and a pair of comfy LL Bean slippers so this winter hasn't been so bad.
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No carpets  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Id love underfloor heating.I Get a glimpse of it when I step on a bit of the floor that has a central heating pipe run under it.
Extrasensory perception!
I have a nice Japanese robe (it's longer than normal) and a pair of comfy LL Bean slippers so this winter hasn't been so bad.
No carpets "
Check out those cork floors, now those are sexy during the winter - soft underfoot, warm, easy to clean, even noise insulating.
Usually I don't like the generic cork floor but some of them look really good, nice swirly affects. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I'm never dressed at home
Dont see the point ...
Dressing gown if it's chilly "
Because I am a natural contrarian and because my rental's insulation is terrible, sometimes (as in right now) I'll put on some flexible soft gym clothing, pants and jacket when I am in bed.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I like to plod about naked in the house.
It feels like freedom.
Sadly there are complications for this indoor naturist lifestyle, namely neighbours (howdy neighbour!) and more importantly: IT IS COLD. Esp. on foots.
Then I see online these houses called Passive Houses. They are totally warm all year around, no drafts of cold air, floors warm to the touch. Install some smart windows that can be turned off and you're set.
I'm sold. This is the future. What do you chaps think?"
sounds perfect, where can I try one out ? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I'm happy naked but always wear slippers. I do the cleaning naked and then dress after my shower.
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A lot of men including me get off watching naked women accomplishing domestic tasks like cleaning/cooking. There's a bunch of videos on the major porn sites which prove it.
It's somehow relaxing and sexy at the same time, even AMSR-like. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"How do they make a house draft proof?
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Several techniques. You can use a smoke pencil or even just a lit fag to find air currents moving in your house, and detect where you need to put weather/draught striping.
Insulation just keeps temperature more stable for longer, the vast majority of the loss of heat in your house is down to changes in air flow so if you can seal the gaps and cracks you can save 90% of your energy bills like the Passive Houses do. It's not a small task though, for most houses a retrofit is a major project.
When they build a modern house today they have a plastic liquid called 'fluid applied membrane' which coats the entire exterior of the house, over the wooden sheathing or the concrete blocks. This prevents any air flow through materials.
Then there's a bunch of tricky details with windows and doors mostly.
Myself I like a related tech called PCM or phase change material - it is a material that acts as a thermal battery. So you have suns_ine pushing IR aka heat into your house during the day but want a nice warm house at night, and the PCM is opposite the windows (in the walls) and it is slowly releasing the heat captured during the day. Very neat trick. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"And. How can you turn off a window?"
If you google 'smart glass' or 'smart film' you'll see examples of it in use.
The window glass/film comes in two versions, opaque or transparent. When an electrical current is applied to the glass/film is shifts properties such that the window is opaque or transparent.
High end conference rooms have them, as do some night club toilet doors, but it's readily available for installing in your house, the installation would need to be carefully thought about though. You can usually turn the windows on or off with a light switch or smartphone or computer. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"How do they make a house draft proof?
Several techniques. You can use a smoke pencil or even just a lit fag to find air currents moving in your house, and detect where you need to put weather/draught striping.
Insulation just keeps temperature more stable for longer, the vast majority of the loss of heat in your house is down to changes in air flow so if you can seal the gaps and cracks you can save 90% of your energy bills like the Passive Houses do. It's not a small task though, for most houses a retrofit is a major project.
When they build a modern house today they have a plastic liquid called 'fluid applied membrane' which coats the entire exterior of the house, over the wooden sheathing or the concrete blocks. This prevents any air flow through materials.
Then there's a bunch of tricky details with windows and doors mostly.
Myself I like a related tech called PCM or phase change material - it is a material that acts as a thermal battery. So you have suns_ine pushing IR aka heat into your house during the day but want a nice warm house at night, and the PCM is opposite the windows (in the walls) and it is slowly releasing the heat captured during the day. Very neat trick."
I think a bit of draught is a good thing. It takes away the nasty chemicals that lead to sick building syndrome. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I would love a non drafty home."
It won't work miracles but you can get surprisingly far with weather stripping, a can of closed cell spray foam from the builder suppliers and a smoke pencil.
Air requires a place to come from and a place to go to. So if you only block one hole the heat will have to move through the air itself instead of hitching a ride on a moving air flow. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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I think a bit of draught is a good thing. It takes away the nasty chemicals that lead to sick building syndrome."
You're right, indoor air pollution is a serious issue for health, but.. you're wrong that you should have draughts.
You should install a HRV or ERV instead, this is just a very efficient fan which is capable of taking out the dirty air in your house, extracting the heat out of the dirty air, and putting the heat back into the clean air.
HRV/ERV save money and not a small amount of it, also preventing mold issues in brit/irish hosues but of course nobody's heard of them here for some reason. There's a german company that makes one called "Lunos" that lasts 20-25 years and costs about 3000 euros, which is fine because A: you could live longer with cleaner air and B: you'll save money long term, hundreds of pounds a year at least.
For instance if you have a HRV, passive house levels of insultion and so on, you can literally pay 100 pounds per year for a whole house's heating bills. There's a large house I saw the other day that paid 70 euro in heating for the year.
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"I would love a non drafty home.
It won't work miracles but you can get surprisingly far with weather stripping, a can of closed cell spray foam from the builder suppliers and a smoke pencil.
Air requires a place to come from and a place to go to. So if you only block one hole the heat will have to move through the air itself instead of hitching a ride on a moving air flow."
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"And. How can you turn off a window?
If you google 'smart glass' or 'smart film' you'll see examples of it in use.
The window glass/film comes in two versions, opaque or transparent. When an electrical current is applied to the glass/film is shifts properties such that the window is opaque or transparent.
High end conference rooms have them, as do some night club toilet doors, but it's readily available for installing in your house, the installation would need to be carefully thought about though. You can usually turn the windows on or off with a light switch or smartphone or computer. "
Alternatively you could just have some curtains  |
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By *ineMan
over a year ago
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Passive houses are not that hard to build. All the tech exists and has for years. And off grid solar etc can actual reduce bills to nil and produce an income.
The fundamental problem is cost and the fact that commercial developers build down to a price to maximise profits.
So passive houses and eco houses are usually the preserve of self builders where they can get more bang for their buck by recovering VAT and using the cost savings of self build to install a range of passive self generation and other tech at the same overall cost as buying from developers. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I like to be naked but with my son at home I can't much the garden is overlooked, that's why I go on naturist holidays (I need people to meet up at there's so I can get naked more) |
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"How do they make a house draft proof?
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There's a whole host of techniques they use - the relevant standards are known as BREEAM. Very good or outstanding BREEAM performers tend to be one offs rather than mass produced - most UK homebuilders don't give a toss about BREEAM as most customers don't ask about it.... |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I like to plod about naked in the house.
It feels like freedom.
Sadly there are complications for this indoor naturist lifestyle, namely neighbours (howdy neighbour!) and more importantly: IT IS COLD. Esp. on foots.
Then I see online these houses called Passive Houses. They are totally warm all year around, no drafts of cold air, floors warm to the touch. Install some smart windows that can be turned off and you're set.
I'm sold. This is the future. What do you chaps think?
sounds perfect, where can I try one out ?"
Didn't see your post there.
There exist passsive houses you can rent to try out for a month, passive hotels, passive house visits - you just need to contact your local 'passive house association', there's a few around. It's a geek club/cult. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Passive houses are not that hard to build. All the tech exists and has for years. And off grid solar etc can actual reduce bills to nil and produce an income.
The fundamental problem is cost and the fact that commercial developers build down to a price to maximise profits.
So passive houses and eco houses are usually the preserve of self builders where they can get more bang for their buck by recovering VAT and using the cost savings of self build to install a range of passive self generation and other tech at the same overall cost as buying from developers."
Yarp, all that is accurate. I want to build my own, now that I know something about what is going on I wouldn't trust anybody else to do it for me. Or hire some people for some things, but with very specific instructions and materials.
It's not easy to find people who can snap out of the 'production build' mentality though, craftspeople of every sort are rare and should be paid more. |
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