I live in an old brick house with lath and plaster walls. It also was built before air conditioning was a thing.
It does amazingly well in summer. Cool downstairs on all but the absolute hottest days.
Definitely not earthquake proof. If there’s ever an earthquake they should just put a couple tombstones on top of the pile of rubble and leave it be, because there’s no way my wife and I will survive. Not worth someone risking tetanus trying to dig us out.
However, we’re also on the East Coast of the U.S. As I understand it, earthquakes here are on a kind of millennial cycle with lots of time to build up to an apocalyptic level of destruction, so if it happens to be time for one of those, it probably doesn’t matter what I’m living in.
I live in an old brick house with lath and plaster walls. It also was built before air conditioning was a thing.
It does amazingly well in summer. Cool downstairs on all but the absolute hottest days.
Definitely not earthquake proof. If there’s ever an earthquake they should just put a couple tombstones on top of the pile of rubble and leave it be, because there’s no way my wife and I will survive. Not worth someone risking tetanus trying to dig us out.
However, we’re also on the East Coast of the U.S. As I understand it, earthquakes here are on a kind of millennial cycle with lots of time to build up to an apocalyptic level of destruction, so if it happens to be time for one of those, it probably doesn’t matter what I’m living in.