Baby it’s cold outside. Um, actually, it’s cold inside as well. And apparently it’s not just me who thinks so—everywhere I go, inside every shop, office, government building, I see people wearing their coats while they work. Where is the heat?!
Where is the fantastically-efficient gas central heating? The weather-smart insulation? Where are the cozy fireplaces? Where are the winter-warm shopping malls, buses, restaurants?
We live in an old building, and our apartment is pretty small, so it’s easy to keep it at a reasonable temperature. And we are still able to use an old-fashioned gas bottle heater, which, though bulky, is a cheap way to heat a room.
Best of all, when you run out of gas at 8pm, a simple phone call brings a
delivery within 30 minutes! You gotta love that kind of service.
delivery within 30 minutes! You gotta love that kind of service.
In many newer buildings, these gas bottle systems are forbidden, so occupiers must rely on alternative methods. Split air conditioners are becoming more common, but these can be expensive to run, and annoying to sit under, as the heat bears down on you like dragon’s breath. More often than not, I see the ‘splits’ silent and dormant on the wall. And that great apartment with the panoramic view? When winter comes, those glass windows are like sheets of ice.
But why is POA like this? Why are buildings so ill-equipped to deal with colder weather? It’s not as if this scenario were new. Presumably winters have always been chilly in southern Brazil. Regardless, most new constructions I’ve seen are no better set up—worse in many cases—than the older buildings. Are the engineers hoping for some kind of genuinely warmer global future?
As for me, at this point I’m just hoping for an early spring.
2 comentários:
A few days ago I heard this subject on the radio. No one can understand why we do not have the habit for installing heating system within the buildings. If you go to the RS rural side (where is colder!) is even more difficult to find. People like to suffer?
I see this in every temperate country that I visit, the buildings are never made to adequately handle the winter season. In Canada, where it gets noticeably colder outside, the buildings are made to a much higher standard, so you're actually warm in winter, even more so than inside in a temperate country!
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