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mircea_popescu: for THAT arrangement, new ducts will run you 3-400 bucks and you're done.
mircea_popescu: anyway, "<mircea_popescu> asciilifeform cheapo scheme above, cheaper to replace the ducts." denotes that in the "central air" image i linked, the ducts exist in the attic as free standing tin foil. they're connected to a grate in the roof of rooms.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey, depends. sometime "tear the whole shit down" is cheaper than fix. besides, if i'm going to pour concrete in my kitchen, i'd much rather pour the whole floor plane.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if pressed enough, can do with own face!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cheapo scheme above, cheaper to replace the ducts.
mircea_popescu: last time i took over a place, ~50 girl-hours went into scrubbing surfaces.
mircea_popescu: and this is with free female labour to paint walls and scrub surfaces clean, and with paint, solvent and detergent included in the figures for the items (which alsoinclude transport etc)
mircea_popescu: just proper fridge (1k at the very least) ; proper stove (about 500, fittings et all) ; dishwasher (another 500) touches your 2k. this includes no cabinets or other furniture, no retiling the walls, no holy shit expenses such as redoing the floor, fixing holes in walls or adding a section of roof etc.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo even easier in autoclaved cellular concrete, w/e they call it in anglolands
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, jews from bukovina. first pass, the nazis. 2nd pass, the russians
mircea_popescu: so they'd blow up a ceiling in the entryway to make the house "look" tall, and so on.
mircea_popescu: high end stuff such as oak (we didn't count oak parquet as anything. we did peach, and cherry, and nut tree for the up end) costs to put in 1/5 of what it gets priced in as.
mircea_popescu: phf but for the floors, this is actually what the smart "fixers" do.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes if memory serves, they cost ~2-3k a pop, which is to say about the same as a hundred vinyls or so.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform irani imports, "persian carpets" in romania. the shit that was common middle class in my parents' house and is now untold luxury omfg.
mircea_popescu: parquet, area carpets, women with carpet beaters a few times a year.
mircea_popescu: to slowly resettle it out of historic east coast districts.
mircea_popescu: (yes, the deep reason amored truck is "needed" is exactly this : moving the injuns around will require some caterpillaring.)
mircea_popescu: apparently, they want them back so bad, it's even worth destroying the police over it.
mircea_popescu: people want the houses of the grandfathers back, can't built them anymore.
mircea_popescu: yep. kinda what's driving the entire resettling of the injuns.
mircea_popescu: it's a war, after all. i count their "innocent victims" even as they count mine.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the usg counts "corruption" against me. i don't.
mircea_popescu: will end up costing 100x more before i even get my sleeves pulled up.
mircea_popescu: so let's hear it, brick and termopan window vs vinyl siding and shit on a stick.
mircea_popescu: since we're doing externalities, let's do the whole shebang, not like i'm a fucking redskin and the oh-so-clever ustard is going to get to count MY externalities and just mine.
mircea_popescu: or for that matter the disadvantage of porthole + neon light "for energy efficiency" ?
mircea_popescu: incidentally asciilifeform anyone bothered to run the "fire hazard cost" "amortized over lifetime of house" for the shitty wood-glass napalm mix ?
mircea_popescu: this window insulates better than anything full brick or below.
mircea_popescu just did the calc, ~800 bucks for 3.55 x 2.0 meter window, 24mm float glass x2 with argon filling.
mircea_popescu: ttp://calculator.fereastracora.ro/calcul-pret-termopan
mircea_popescu: yes, and it makes me want to put the drink down and leave.
mircea_popescu: it's a 20sqft slab whose main purpose is to allow the master bedroom to have proper windows.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform usually this is done for the 2 rooms (of 4) that have "a balcony"
mircea_popescu: for one thing, they were wood rather than plastic frame then
mircea_popescu: bitch, i grew up in a land where the window is an entire wall and it opens out all the way
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they have these tiny shits, more insult than window. and then IT ONLY OPENS HALFWAY.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, i dunno that i loathe anything us as much as THE MOTHERFUCKING WINDOWS.
mircea_popescu: usually done for warehouses (originally, a thing from positive pressure clean rooms)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, central air is when you have a huge tube and the conditioning happens entirely outside.
mircea_popescu: unlike central air, you move freon gas around rather than air. so no huge tubage.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a split unit is this thing where the compressor and hot phase sit outside, for instance on roof, and cold head inside.
mircea_popescu: just thinking about "window ac", wtf is this "feel good" nonsense. it clearly doesn't solve the problem, it just what, gives you the impression of a cool breeze ?
mircea_popescu: there's a space between "window ac" and "central air". you can get a proper split unit installed.
mircea_popescu: now you know where Guo Boxiong's truckful comes from. it's a dropplet of the rain falling on all things from the comrade xi's fountain.