Magdalena: Since when??? What sort of weird building techniques are you using to bring about such results? I mean seriously - I have lived in brick (and similar) houses all my life and have never felt cold in winter or hot in summer. Contrariwise, to be exact.
In London? You're not cold in winter? My wife is from West London and when visiting in January it was plenty cold with a space heater for heat. Summers are cool and rainy, so no you wouldn't be hot.
Traditional brick homes in the States do not have insulation in the walls. Usually brick exterior with two by four studs and plaster walls. Without central forced air and plenty of vent fans in bathroom and kitchen moisture forms on inside of walls and frost on windows in winter. Modern Masonry buildings have walls built with hollow concrete blocks with foam insulation inside and central forced air and vent fans so they eliminate the moisture problems but wood frame is still preferred do to ease of construction.
cjj: You have to pump warm air through the walls all the time - to carry the internal moisture with it. Otherwise the walls rot in place.
no they don't rot in place unless they're built wrong.
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