To: Crocodile who wrote (816 ) 11/27/2002 10:32:16 PM From: marcos Respond to of 1293 The term 'comfort' as applied by building designers to room temperature can be described as 'lack of sensation', i.e. 'no feeling of coolness' and 'no feeling of overwarmth' ...... 'no feeling' - and that's the goal ... ! ... in this house we heat with wood, make a fire when we feel cold, then the fire makes us feel heat, so we open the door and in this season we feel cold again in maybe twelve minutes or so .... all the way through there are periods in which we feel .... as a bonus, we get to feel smug about paying maybe eight loonies per annum for chain saw gas and oil instead of paying thousands to some rapacious a-rabs blue-eyed or otherwise to make the house warm in an inhumanly consistent manner in order to evade the exercise of our very human capacity to feel Near our other house, there is a lodge where the top-notch room is reputed to cost usd400/night .... we built our other house for an all-up cost of four nights in this room ..... mind you, it's smallish, designed to be added to later as is local custom, and we have an uncle who is a builder and worked largely for beer and hot roast pig, we got a deal on the block and roofing involved due to a fantastically corrupt local priísta game prevalent at the time, but still .... you know what we don't have that the 625 loonies per night room has - hot running water .... like, you really need some of that in the tropics, lol ..... and i'd be surprised if any lodge anywhere at any price has the mango, lime, sour orange trees we have ... room service? - sure, just intimidate some kid to go get you something, or bribe him/her with a future movie experience on a trip to town, whatever, just make sure that in the process he gets to be human, and feel