PugJesus@piefed.socialM to InhabitedBeauty@piefed.socialEnglish · 3 months agoEdinburgh, Scotlandmedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square23linkfedilinkarrow-up1189arrow-down13
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minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 months agoOld buildings with lack of central heat go brrrrr. (I assume)
minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 months agoI know those. Auntie Alice used to live in such a house. Large house (with a servants flat at the top, actually, which was where her MIL lived years ago), no insulation, drafty, single-pane windows and installations that look rather pre-war to me.
minus-squarebstix@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoCould be any kind of vents. The entire city has had a ban on chimney smoke since 1995. The old chimneys are kept for architectural preference.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoI figured that the heating systems would be updated, but overexplaining that would’ve ruined the [attempt at] humor.
minus-squareKSP Atlas@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoThere’s chimneys like that EVERYWHERE in Scotland You can only really avoid them if you go to one of the new towns and even then there’s a few
minus-squareCompactFlaxlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoYes, I was thinking of what it would have been like when they were new and all belching coal smoke across the country.
The sheer number of chimneys.
Old buildings with lack of central heat go brrrrr.
(I assume)
I know those. Auntie Alice used to live in such a house. Large house (with a servants flat at the top, actually, which was where her MIL lived years ago), no insulation, drafty, single-pane windows and installations that look rather pre-war to me.
Could be any kind of vents. The entire city has had a ban on chimney smoke since 1995.
The old chimneys are kept for architectural preference.
I figured that the heating systems would be updated, but overexplaining that would’ve ruined the [attempt at] humor.
There’s chimneys like that EVERYWHERE in Scotland
You can only really avoid them if you go to one of the new towns and even then there’s a few
Yes, I was thinking of what it would have been like when they were new and all belching coal smoke across the country.