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    Rimozione di chimne “senza senso”, la riunione del Consiglio di Kerry sente

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    1. sabhaistecabaiste on

      Can they read evidence instead of just spouting opinions?

    2. Rennie_Burn on

      The point here is to get houses so well insulated and airtight, that it takes a good while before the house starts cooling down…

    3. Wise_Adhesiveness746 on

      They concrete up the chimneys in council houses where I am,

      But people are given the option of whether they wanted the air tightness upgrades or not…..the esb bills would be crippling otherwise as there would be a permanent loss of heat up chimney

      That Ireland electricity network could face such a failure/outages was always an obvious risk that was never spoken about and glossed over

    4. Bill_Badbody on

      >Fresh air was good for people and was what people needed, he also said.

      Because lighting fires in houses notoriously helps with air quality?

    6. timothyclaypole on

      We take lessons from countries with far more extremes of hot and cold. Insulation is the most important factor for keeping houses warm in cold weather. Sufficient insulation means you need very little actual heating, even just having a few human bodies in the place could be enough to raise the temperature and keep it warm enough to be habitable (if not perfectly comfortable)

      The trick is that we need to have options for what happens when power goes out, that doesn’t mean we need gas stoves and open fires, it more likely means houses with solar panels, battery storage, transfer switches to allow the whole house to run from battery and probably vehicle to load arrangements to allow EVs to add their charge to run the house.

      This is all possible today, the only impediment is cost, we have a terrible base of housing stock to upgrade but if we don’t start now it will only get more expensive to do later. Hopefully this intervention in Kerry is just hot air by the usual suspects and that the council won’t have to stop making progress on these upgrades just because of ignorant blow hards.

    7. AhhhhBiscuits on

      We took out our chimney.
      It wasn’t used and took up space.

      Such a messy job. Started from the roof, then attic (the worst part) and the kids room. That was nearly 6 years ago.
      Then finally few months ago, out of the sitting room.
      It has made such a difference in the sitting room.

    8. wasabi_daddy on

      It is nonsensical in case of solid brick, single skin houses which were built untill 1900 or so and need ventilation and open fires to control moisture. Cavity wall houses? Not so much

    9. Diska_Muse on

      I’m an architect and have a soft spot for chimneys – partly from an aesthetic point of view and partly because I love an open fire /.stove in living spaces.

      Traditional Irish vernacular architecture is solidly based around open fires and chimneys in houses – sometimes numerous chimneys and although times have changed and there is less need for them, there is still something intrinsic to them which is part of our heritage, particularly in rural Ireland.

      Many of my clients feel the same and I’ve designed dozens of houses in recent years that have chimneys.. all A rated houses too.

      I’m definitely not a fan of seeing them removed from buildings particularly when they can be kept and the carbon output from the dwellings can be reduced by other methods.

      Sometimes, ripping up the old to make way for the new is not always the best step forward.

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