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Originally Posted by tvp2003
I’m curious — what do you attribute that to, especially as it relates to Calgary? Different materials? Different building designs/codes/techniques? Better (or worse) workmanship? All of the above?
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We've been sealing houses up tighter and tighter for energy reasons, and with anything you are making a trade off where there are plus's and minus's. Plus's mainly being energy efficiency, consistency of temp., cleanliness.... Where is the older houses are more expensive to heat, drafty, dusty... But in the trade off the newer house is higher maintenance, you need to vent moister properly, keep exhaust clean... Problem the higher maintenance newer houses, is your average person doesn't know how to keep it up.
No too difference from car's these days, lots of complicated stuff to up keep to the point you don't really have back yard mechanics taking care of their cars anymore (at least not in the scale we used to), but their safer and use less gas.