If you never lived where it snows and were moving North to where it does snow, what would you have liked to have known? What would you do to prepare?

  • funkyfarmington@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    We DO have double pane windows. Just not in areas that have middling weather. Or construction before 1990 or so. Or in older mobile homes, which we have a lot of. And the houses with double pane windows are often poorly constructed, sometimes in the homes, sometimes in the windows, and often both.

    Energy has historically been very cheap here, so efficiency has never been a priority. That is changing now.

    The videos I’ve seen of northern European windows just seem to have a ton more features than ours.

    • Atomic@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      I see. I think I’m starting to understand. It makes sense when you mention that energy has been very cheap.

      Why spend money on new windows when the difference in the energy bill is just a few bucks.