Posted by CurtisH on February 18, 2021 at 13:27:47 from (98.199.97.12):
In Reply to: Texas houses posted by cjunrau on February 18, 2021 at 11:25:10:
Residential houses in Texas are built for the typical weather conditions for that area. I live south of Houston on the Gulf of Mexico where we usually see one or two light freezes a year that barely last beyond the mid morning hours, but where you are guaranteed to have long hot, humid summers. So the focus from a design standpoint where I live is on the hot weather side where cooling is used during most months of the year.
The house I have now was built in 2016 and is insulated quite well, driven mostly by the desire to cut cooling costs during the warm months of the year. Freeze protection is mostly an afterthought, but they did insulate any water lines running in external walls or in the attic outside of the core attic space. The plumbing is PEX run up in the attic which appears to be the prevalent practice now, at least around here.
The house I grew up in, and the houses of my grandparents, in that same geographical area had zero insulation of any kind. In hot weather you opened the windows or sat outside. In cold weather there was a space heater or two, but for the most part you just wore more clothes, put more quilts on the beds and waited for it to warm up.
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