• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        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.

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        3 months ago

        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.

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          3 months ago

          I figured that the heating systems would be updated, but overexplaining that would’ve ruined the [attempt at] humor.

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      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

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        3 months ago

        Yes, I was thinking of what it would have been like when they were new and all belching coal smoke across the country.