I have to say it is really infuriating that all the new buildings with underfloor heating that have been build in the last 20 years lack ACs or even radiators.

Like you have this massive thermal battery just sitting there, there are pipes in this battery and you can only use it for heating half the year.

No body had the intellect to connect these things to a radiator on the roof so you can use the cold nights to lower the temp of these thermal batteries... the additional costs are minimal and you could just add a AC to all of this.

Like .... running a AC at night to bring down the house temp makes also much more sense than trying to mitigate the heat in the middle of a day with 40C.

The German laws already require laughable thick walls that are tons over tons of thermal capacity that just ... sit there and do nothing.

Absolutely flabbergasted...

Put fucking pipes into the walls!
It is not that difficult and expensive!

In fact it is much much cheaper that way if you calculate in a few generations like German houses are supposed and regulated to be build.

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