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xkcd #3099: Neighbor-Source Heat Pump

Title text:

The installation of the pipes on the inside of the insulation can be challenging, especially when the neighbor could come home at any minute.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3099/

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[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 59 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

This was one of the best parts of apartment living

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 hours ago

Ground floor apartment here. Winter is hell, the storage area in the basement below us is unheated, so the apartment feels like Siberia. Summer is glorious though, nice and cool even in the middle of the most brutal heatwave.

[–] Goretantath@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago

Except for when the people below you are ancient and run the heater in the SUMMER..

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 15 points 13 hours ago

Same. We live between two floors. Heat rarely is put on, because stove, fridge and dishwasher are enough to supplement what the sandwiched apartments floors already provide

[–] duhbasser@lemm.ee 10 points 13 hours ago

Yea for real. I live on the middle-ish levels (10-17th floors) and never use the heat. Winter time, my apartment gets heat from the lower areas and sun is hitting my windows from sun rise to sun down, so I actually have to turn on the A/C in the winter cause it’ll get to 75-78. Summer time, the sun is higher up in the sky so it doesn’t shine directly into the apartment so the A/C gets a break.

That all said, fucking Spring and Fall are a bitch cause the sun is shining directly into my eyes, so I gotta shift around during the day and I gotta adjust the A/C like every hour, cause I’m too hot or too cold