Andrew Sudds, who with his wife, Kristin Conley, paid $600,000 for a former Lutheran church in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood last year, says it is virtually impossible to keep the room where he they sleep warm. The roof isn't insulated, making it hard to heat the 3,500-square-foot space with a 39-foot ceiling.
安德鲁·萨兹(Andrew Sudds)和他的妻子克里斯汀·康利(Kristin Conley)去年花了60万美元买下芝加哥洪堡公园(Humboldt Park)社区的一处住所,其前身是一座路德教会教堂。萨兹说,想要让他们的卧室保暖几乎是不可能的。房顶没有做隔热层,因此这套面积3,500平方英尺(约合325平方米)且天花板高39英尺(约合12米)的房子想要保持暖和很不容易。
'We don't keep the heat running, otherwise we'd owe thousands of dollars in heating bills,' says Mr. Sudds, an information-technology specialist for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois. 'But even if we did, the heat would just rise and escape through the roof. The fact is that this structure wasn't built for continuous habitation.'
萨兹是伊利诺伊州健康保险公司蓝十字蓝盾(Blue Cross Blue Shield)的IT专家,他说:“我们没有让暖气一直供着,否则一年单是取暖费就要数千美元。但就算我们成天开着暖气,热量还是会通过房顶耗散。事实是,这样的建筑结构本来就不是为长期居住设计的。
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