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▲ 17 r/buildingscience

Architect may have messed up but I want to be sure. Advice needed on brick house and potential remedies.

I live in a country with very warm and dry weather. I commissioned an architect to build my house and she suggested that we build a house with clay bricks as that would protect from the heat and keep the house cool.

I trusted her judgement and built the house.

It's a single story independent house with the same clay bricks used for both interior and exterior walls. The exterior walls are 2 bricks thick.

The issue is the house is unbelievable hot. In the evenings, the outside is much more cooler than the inside of the house, despite there being good ventilation.

I wanted to understand the science behind the clay bricks, as to whether the provide the insulation that my architect said they would provide, and any potential remedies I could use. One solutions I think is covering the terrace with a roofing so that there is no direct sunlight.

u/NameisPond-FishPond — 2 days ago
▲ 37 r/bangalore

Last month my garbage collectors came to my door and asked for 500 per month. I was paying 100 per month, similar to what my neighbors are paying. I have a dustbin at my gate, but dry and wet were being put together, although in separate packets.

They said since they have to segregate, they need 500. After pushing back, I agreed for 300 per month, on the condition that they come daily.

I also bought a new dustbin to segregate wet and dry waste.

After paying them, they still came only 1-2 times per week.

This month I refused to pay them, showed them the segregated waste. They still asked for money and things got heated. No abuses but raised voices. Now they are not collecting the garbage.

Where can I file a complaint for this blackmail, and how do I resolve this?

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u/NameisPond-FishPond — 7 days ago