I've been in Poland for a couple of weeks and I noticed something interesting about the way the people heat their homes. I had never thought of this before. Typically, at my house, I ask people if they're too hot or too cold, to tell me or learn how to adjust the thermostat. I get annoyed when the heat is running and someone opens a window to get some fresh air. I don't mind the fresh air, but I do mind heating the outdoors.
Apparently, in Poland, you can not control the heat in your building, so people open the windows when they're hot. This seems to carry on into single family homes as well. This explains a lot when I hear people complain about the high cost of heating buildings.
Perhaps, instead of forcing people to replace fossil fuel furnaces with heat pumps, they update the building heating systems so people can actually control the temperature of their sections so they can open windows and turn the heat off. However, habits are hard to break.
I've been in Poland for a couple of weeks and I noticed something interesting about the way the people heat their homes. I had never thought of this before. Typically, at my house, I ask people if they're too hot or too cold, to tell me or learn how to adjust the thermostat. I get annoyed when the heat is running and someone opens a window to get some fresh air. I don't mind the fresh air, but I do mind heating the outdoors.
Apparently, in Poland, you can not control the heat in your building, so people open the windows when they're hot. This seems to carry on into single family homes as well. This explains a lot when I hear people complain about the high cost of heating buildings.
Perhaps, instead of forcing people to replace fossil fuel furnaces with heat pumps, they update the building heating systems so people can actually control the temperature of their sections so they can open windows and turn the heat off. However, habits are hard to break.
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