My God... its full of radiators

[RLeeErmey]

Doesn't anyone have furnaces or central air?

[MizMeow1]

The game is made from a European company. Radiators are used there for the most part, unlike here in the US. If you're not doing the jobs and are just flipping houses, you can sell them if you'd like. I never use them because they take up too much room, although I don't mind the new vertical ones. I did pick up a wall thermostat in the Workshop. I put that on my walls now for the central heating/air that I'm used to in most US homes.

[RLeeErmey]

Still kinda sad no duct work no condensers, no vents, insulation?

[MizMeow1]

No, nothing like that. I'd say that overall this game is more in the line of decorating houses. You can move interior walls and, of course, move rooms around. Fairly recently, they changed the game so that we can move windows and exterior doors. And, in the bathroom, you need to install a sink while the kitchen sinks do not need installation. You install a washing machine, toilets, showers, and radiators. Those are all pretty simple, though, and nothing along the line of duct work, etc.. I haven't had a chance to check it out, but I guess they have a new game out called Builder Simulator (I believe it is) and that is more about building houses, so it may have more of installing the items you are talking about. I know, too, that they are working on House Flipper 2 which, I believe, will involve more in the lines of building houses than this game does. I don't think (at least I haven't heard) that we have a whole lot of information on it yet to know how much detail it will have, so it may have more of what you are talking about. This game, though, doesn't have any of this.

[RLeeErmey]

Probably should have done building simulator then. Interior decorating is not my thing lol

[derekanthony_vtuber]

there are mini- split type air conditioners that you can hang on the wall, and also there is a mini- split outdoor unit you can put outside (and yes the fan works on it ) , there also may be hvac items in the gallery . i actually found a couple of ac condensing units and a package unit that i use in some of my builds

[Underdawg]

Originally posted by MizMeow1:

No, nothing like that. I'd say that overall this game is more in the line of decorating houses. You can move interior walls and, of course, move rooms around. Fairly recently, they changed the game so that we can move windows and exterior doors. And, in the bathroom, you need to install a sink while the kitchen sinks do not need installation. You install a washing machine, toilets, showers, and radiators. Those are all pretty simple, though, and nothing along the line of duct work, etc.. I haven't had a chance to check it out, but I guess they have a new game out called Builder Simulator (I believe it is) and that is more about building houses, so it may have more of installing the items you are talking about. I know, too, that they are working on House Flipper 2 which, I believe, will involve more in the lines of building houses than this game does. I don't think (at least I haven't heard) that we have a whole lot of information on it yet to know how much detail it will have, so it may have more of what you are talking about. This game, though, doesn't have any of this.

You can pick up light switches, outlets, etc and place them anywhere without rewiring(not to mention working on outlets without shutting off the breaker) so I would not expect ductwork, but yeah it would be nice to have central heating and air conditioning as an option for homes that are big enough for it.

[Specific Beef]

Originally posted by SGT R Lee Ermey:

Probably should have done building simulator then. Interior decorating is not my thing lol

There's something called Dreamhouse coming, which is like a luxury home UE5 take on the idea. Construction is a bigger feature, and it seems to focus entirely on modern designer homes. It's been stuck in development a long time, but they did just show a new trailer during not-E3 so maybe it's coming next year.

[Gran]

Originally posted by MizMeow1:

The game is made from a European company. Radiators are used there for the most part, unlike here in the US. If you're not doing the jobs and are just flipping houses, you can sell them if you'd like. I never use them because they take up too much room, although I don't mind the new vertical ones. I did pick up a wall thermostat in the Workshop. I put that on my walls now for the central heating/air that I'm used to in most US homes.

Here in the UK if we didn't have radiators we'd freeze lol
Air con, well in the north in the summer months we probably wouldn't get to use it. It doesn't really get hot enough. I fill my houses with radiators in game, have to keep my buyers warm. I love the vertical radiators. Thinking of putting them in my RL home :)

[Lailantie]

I'm also from Europe and I've had radiators all over the place in all apartments or houses I lived in, my whole life. I found it rather strange that in the Sims 4, you place one little circular thing on one wall and the whole house is warm :)

[Gran]

Originally posted by Lailantie:

I'm also from Europe and I've had radiators all over the place in all apartments or houses I lived in, my whole life. I found it rather strange that in the Sims 4, you place one little circular thing on one wall and the whole house is warm :)

Now wouldn't that be great Just think of the space it would save. We're waiting for the builder to start work on our home and struggling to find places for the radiators.

[Meadow]

Originally posted by Luxury Malcolm:

Originally posted by SGT R Lee Ermey:

Probably should have done building simulator then. Interior decorating is not my thing lol

There's something called Dreamhouse coming, which is like a luxury home UE5 take on the idea. Construction is a bigger feature, and it seems to focus entirely on modern designer homes. It's been stuck in development a long time, but they did just show a new trailer during not-E3 so maybe it's coming next year.

A new trailer for Dreamhouse: The Game?? I haven't seen that... do you have a link?

[RLeeErmey]

Originally posted by Lailantie:

I'm also from Europe and I've had radiators all over the place in all apartments or houses I lived in, my whole life. I found it rather strange that in the Sims 4, you place one little circular thing on one wall and the whole house is warm :)

We had radiators too. Hot water heating was very common here but also phased out and replaced by forced air where you only need to burn when you need the heat.

[sloppydoll1948]

Boy glad I live in the USA even with all its problems.. but I would love to visit all the countries Love England and Ireland and Scotland, Had a friend from Scotland She told me about Haggis lol Thank Heaven for Mc Donalds lol

[Gran]

Originally posted by sloppydoll1948:

Boy glad I live in the USA even with all its problems.. but I would love to visit all the countries Love England and Ireland and Scotland, Had a friend from Scotland She told me about Haggis lol Thank Heaven for Mc Donalds lol

Up until a year and a half ago we lived in central France. There weren’t many houses with central heating. You had to keep the shutters closed in the summer to keep the heat out and closed in the winter to keep the heat in lol. It made a little dark and dismal. The house had been a flour mill on the river and was built in 1575. To be honest I don’t think much had been done to it lol unfortunately my health brought us back to the UK. Here our home has radiators and I’m so pleased of them lol they are much better than huddling around a wood-burner lol

[jannetin82]

Water heating is rather common in Europe.
Where I live, 90% of houses have radiator under each and every window.

But for now, it's the cheapest form of heating the houses.

Sure there are few a bit more modern, and few bit more expensive buildings that have other forms of heating.

Especially urban areas are heated by adjacent power station coolant water.
Electric Power plants, Data centers, among other things generate notable amount of excess heat, which needs to be cooled somehow.
Use water as coolant. great.
Now we have millions of gallons of steam. We can let it just go... Sure.
Or we can keep int condensed as water. Well now we have millions of gallons of ~500(Celsius) ~950(Fahrenheit) degree water...
What do we do with that?
Let's run it trough those 300 city blocks as source of heat. and it's just about boiling hot when it comes back.

but we do have only couple months that we see in over 35C (95F) and couple months when we might reach up to -40C (-40F)