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|    Lynn McGuire to Jay Morris    |
|    Re: xkcd: Truly Universal Outlet    |
|    10 Jan 26 19:31:30    |
      XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips       From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com              On 1/10/2026 6:01 PM, Jay Morris wrote:       > On 1/10/2026 3:12 PM, Thomas Koenig wrote:       >> Sounds like a_really_ huge air conditioning unit, but I know that       >> building insulation is almost unheard of in the US.       >       > And this is based on?       >       > My last three houses, from 1996, have all been around R-20 in the walls       > and R-30 in the ceilings.              When I bought my latest house in 2019, a house built in 1998 with single       pane windows, I replaced the single pane windows with triple pane       windows with a clear plastic insert in them for sound reduction. The       new windows dropped my electric bill by 40%.              Lynn              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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