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Randy D

What causes the interior of a house to always be SO cold in the wintertime, much colder than the temperature outside,

and the exact same house to always be SO hot in the summertime, much hotter than the temperature outside?

Does it have to do with its construction?
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Posted - January 8, 2017
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  • Yes, you got it.. or more precisely, insulation.. A well insulated house will stay warm in the winter and cool in the summer.  
      January 8, 2017 1:03 PM MST
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  • 53531
    Yes, I was thinking that insulation is the key.  Thanks!

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      January 8, 2017 2:11 PM MST
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  • 17620
    It is the key but the reason is that when the temp drops at night it takes much of the night for the indoor temp to drop when you have good insulation.  The reserve is also true.  So  just because the outdoor temp rises 20 degrees in seven hours has little to do with the temp in your home rising.  Raising windows will help. The above statement about a well insulated home is true generally but is not the answer to your question.
      January 8, 2017 2:50 PM MST
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  • It could. An uninsulated house will easily let in the cold and in the winter and fail to keep in the heat, and vice versa in the summer. 
      January 8, 2017 1:09 PM MST
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  • Because you live somewhere where it doesn't get very cold in the winter, so houses are built with staying cool in summer in mind. If houses were like that in Chicago, we'd all be dead.
      January 8, 2017 1:27 PM MST
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  • 53531
    You know, that makes perfect sense, thanks very much!

    :)
      January 8, 2017 2:10 PM MST
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  • 17620
    That worries me.  :)
      January 8, 2017 2:53 PM MST
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  • 53531
    Why?

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      January 8, 2017 11:33 PM MST
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  • 22891
    it might be cause of the way the house is made
      January 8, 2017 2:58 PM MST
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  • 2960
    It is kind of like when the ocean is cold in the summer, but warm in the winter.
      January 8, 2017 3:11 PM MST
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  • It's in the construction.  Either it wasn't insulated and draft sealed well enough, or the type of insulation used was a blown in kind and overtime loose fill insulation settles and leaves gaps at the top and the compressed loose fill has less air space and it lowers the R value of it.  Could also be the acrylic caulk used to draft seal has started to deteriorate.
      January 8, 2017 3:38 PM MST
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  • 53531
    Thanks, this old rig was slapped together in the 1970s.
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      January 8, 2017 11:34 PM MST
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  • I thought you were talking about me there for a min..
      January 8, 2017 11:36 PM MST
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  • 53531
    Hey . . . 



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      January 8, 2017 11:46 PM MST
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  • Ha
      January 9, 2017 10:55 AM MST
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