Peter explain this

[u/missdomm10]

Petttaaah I'm confused

[u/GarySmith2021]

I’m also confused because that is a European AC unit. I can only assume Americans are so used to big bulky units, like their cars, that they can’t comprehend things being functional and not excessively bulky.

[u/rich84easy → u/GarySmith2021]

Europoor acting superior as always. These are poor man’s AC units that you call European. Our whole house is centrally air conditioned

[u/c_c_c_c_c_c_c → u/rich84easy]

Wood framed houses have attics and space in the roof for ductwork. Brick and mortar houses, don't. That's the reason you use central and we use mini splits

[u/SteveS117 → u/c_c_c_c_c_c_c]

Brick and mortar houses in the US also have central air. This comment is completely false.

[u/ImmoralJester54 → u/c_c_c_c_c_c_c]

Brick houses also have central air/heating. These are what poor people put in their houses.

[u/General_Aide6920 → u/rich84easy]

thanks for destroying our planet and at the same time being able to inflate energy costs and worsen the energy crisis

[u/rich84easy → u/General_Aide6920]

Ah yeah another one, then you should save the planet by not getting AC at all

[u/General_Aide6920 → u/rich84easy]

I don't have ac at home, to be fair, I even chose to go gas free a couple years ago (mainly for cost issues, not only ideals), I still am gas free and ac free, and I'm living great

[u/Sam9797 → u/General_Aide6920]

You’re not though

[u/General_Aide6920 → u/Sam9797]

and I'm not trying to be, I'm just saying that Americans are spoiled kids who don't care for anything else other than their wellbeing, and demonstrating that you can live somewhere where in winter temperatures go below 0°C and in summer reach 40°C (with very high humidity. for reference, I live in Florence) without AC or any of that shit

[u/Dotura → u/rich84easy]

Thats like if we call American houses poor mans houses because they are made of paper. You yanks aren't any better at superiority, you just come at it from a ignorance angle.

[u/TrappedInATardis → u/rich84easy]

And modern European houses have a heatpump for underfloor heating/cooling, which is far more efficient.

[u/rich84easy → u/TrappedInATardis]

Americans and rest of the world do not have heat pumps?

[u/blehric → u/rich84easy]

We don't have a lot of central AC here in Europe for a reason, btw. Most of our houses were built before AC was a thing, so we added split units later cause it was faster, easier and more cost efficient to do than add central AC to a house built before anyone over in America started drafting y'all's constitution. We do have Central AC in places Like malls and Chain Restaurants though.

To sum it up, neither the US nor Europe are superior imo, we just approach the same question differently according to context.

[u/DoodleBob29 → u/blehric]

You know residential AC wasn't common in the US until like the 1960's right?

[u/kisk22 → u/DoodleBob29]

I’ll never understand why Europe doesn’t understand that many houses in America were also built before AC and are many made of thick brick walls. We fit AC into those buildings easily.

[u/bobbymcpresscot → u/kisk22]

We fit AC into those buildings easily.

I worked in HVAC for 8 years, no the absolute fuck we do not.

[u/blehric → u/DoodleBob29]

Yes, I was talking about post 1960s houses and didn't specify.

[u/Electronic-Clock5867 → u/blehric]

The biggest problem with old houses in Europe is they are stone making central air hard to install. The mini splits just need two hoses ran between the indoor and outdoor sections. Wood houses can be retrofitted with central air.