My grandpa had problems with heat escaping the house very quickly even though he insulated it pretty well. I borrowed my friend's little smartphone-mounted thermal camera and mounted it on a drone and we were able to find all spots in the roof where heat was escaping and after insulating them, my grandpa's coal usage dropped by almost 20%. It's shocking how much heat can escape through seemingly well-insulated roof. Great video!
@@huntsbychainsaw5986 Even though we never even need a heater here (tropical weather) when I heard that brits still used coal to heat their houses, my thoughts is just why?
We used the heat with coal. There are no gas heating mains where I live, so we had to get an oil tank installed. As this was expensive, it took a while for the installation to be done.
I could imagine a tired scientist working odd hours and accidentally falling asleep int he house, only for the other scientists to "haunt" him/her by randomly opening and closing doors.
I'm really glad you did this video. There are many important subjects, like energy efficiency, that unfortunately quite a few simply find boring. Finding something that is widely interesting (even to those who find the overall topic a snore) can really help people think about these topics. I don't know how many people will go away and actually find some energy efficiency methods that suit their house but I'm hopeful.
A new series! I've got a few videos coming up that showcase some brilliant, but not well known, research labs. Normally I'd file them under "Amazing Places", but that doesn't quite feel right, so there's a brand new playlist and a brand new logo. I say "brand new", it's still written in Helvetica, so don't worry too much about change.
Names of fonts and the underlying code can be copyrighted. The look of the font cannot be, which is why there are so many clones of popular fonts. Licensing of fonts varies, and that can control what it's used for. In practice, fonts that come with operating systems and word processing programs are licensed for any use.
I live in an 80 year old house in San Francisco - a lot of homes here are similar in age. It definitely isn't the most energy efficient but we make the best out of it. Better windows, some insulation here, etc. does wonders. I definitely see some business opportunities for this.
Except they can never ever go outside. We could tell them climate change happened and now the weather changes from freezing cold to boiling hot every 30 seconds. That would be a fun show.
When they're simulating winter during the actual winter, then the fridge in that house is a cooled space inside a heated space inside a cooled space inside a heated space inside a cold place.
I graduated this year with a degree in physics from the University of Salford, they let us have a walk around joule terrace and the temperature sensors are so precise they will detect a temperature increase from someone walking into the text environment, awesome stuff. Glad to see it cover on your channel!
Now this is something i literally never heard about anywhere neither the thought of such experiment happening ever came to my mind. I appreciate your content Tom, it not only shows just the exciting things but also those that are quite unique. Have a nice day :)
Good to see people working on this. Old housing has always been a thorn in my eye. They are leaky, poorly insulated and it sucks to live in them in both the winter and summer because it's either too cold or too hot. Sure hope we get some results from this in "the real world" soon.
I can't say for the UK, but updating and improving "old" construction homes (late 1800s, early/mid 1900s) has been a thing in the US for the better part of 3 decades. You can watch episode of "This Old House" from the late 80s/early 90s and they are retrofitting old Boston (where the show originated) homes with improved windows, insulation and the lot. Granted the tech has improved since ~1990, but the intent and underlying methods have been around for a long time. The troubles come in places like Pomona, California (where I used to live) where homes in "Historic Districts" are so overly protected, that doing reasonable upgrades (like replacing metal swing-out windows with wooden or vinyl) is illegal, because the letter of the law requires "like for like", where a metal swing out window has to be replaced with a metal swing out window. It becomes entirely impractical, because no such things are currently made, requiring custom fabrication, which is expensive, and still won't be much improved because of the materials required.
ThaTyger, Similar to perhaps half the Australian housing stock which was built before insulation became readily available. Weatherboard outside, tongue-in groove inside or something like Masonite, no insulation of any kind, multiple windows to let air in during summer - cold as charity in the cooler months.
I ran across your site just today and I must say your post are very interesting, right up my alley as they say, History, geography and science oddities (and those not so odd) I find fun to watch, keep up the good work, nice site.
Its a mere 45 years since professor Randall built 4 highly insulated houses at Salford Uni for the same price as a typical council house. What have we learned since then with 150mm insulated cavities, 300mm roof insulation, triple glazing and heat recovery ventilation. I understand the houses were so well insulated they only needed a low cost gas fire to heat them!
While I love the short form and informative videos like this and a lot of the channel, there are a lot of topics such as this where every now and then you want a 10-20min video explaining in much greater detail and how it can effect me and what I can do to improve my home. I live in a 1940's mid terrace home, rental property, drafty windows, old boiler. It's one of the few videos you do where I would love some more in depth info, not just who is doing the work, but how that work can help me. Just my 2 cents on the matter
Cool Project. I hope they are monitoring the air quality inside the house. Because a lot of these energy efficiency improvement make the houses so airtight you get a build up of damp stale air. This promotes mould which is terrible for our lungs, especially us asthmatics.
Jack up the house and rotate it to have the majority of the windows facing the Equator, thus getting the sun back in the house, orientation is the BIGGEST thing in capturing sun energy, and its starts with planning, a house built the direction blocking naturally sunlight will ALWAYS be wrong.
Having a grad student live their to provide body heat and to run appliances might have cost more than actuators, but wear and tear would be useful data. And grad students need the housing.
Because of the British climate, it almost never rains on a still day, so it's almost always windy. The wind will blow the rain sideways. There are places in the world where overhead cover is adequate to keep somewhere dry. The UK isn't one of them; if it's not covered on all four sides, then the rain will blow in.
In particularly mountainous areas the rain can go up. We have rain that is more like a thick mist which is very easily blown around in a squall. So on hillsides the rain can follow the hillside up. I think it's found effect or similar,
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Could you do a video explaining the differences between calculating winter? Daylight winter (Nov, Dec, Jan) - starts 6 weeks before shortest day (solstice Dec 21st is mid-winter) Meteorological winter (Dec, Jan, Feb) - 3 months of lowest average temperatures Astronomical winter (Jan, Feb, Mar) - starts on shortest day (solstice Dec 21st)
Pretty cool! It looks pretty surreal to see icicles hanging off a house that looks like that (I can't remember any time it's got that cold around here), almost like it's from a post-apocalyptic movie or something.
Every sixth row has the bricks set with their headers [the smallest face] exposed. This is known as "common bond" or "American bond" - it's an unusual bond in a British house!
Isn't the current drama around the TH-cam algorithm about the recent change that it instead prefers daily uploads over all other parameters like video length number of comments etc?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure TH-cam's algorithm mainly focuses on daily upload views now. If you upload everyday but aren't a vlogger you'll be in the recommended section of TH-cam every day it seems.
this seems pretty similar to NIST's Net Zero House, although that's built with modern techniques and has been used to test out various modern energy harnessing technologies etc.
If I worked on this project, I would live in the house and gather subjective data; i.e. a human constantly tweaking the thermostat to react to their subjective experience of it being too hot or too cold in the house
Interestingly the place I live in is in Providence, RI - it was built in 1900 so no insulation whatsoever. And when we moved in it had an ancient oil fired steam system. That was replaced by a modern hot water circulation system a few years back. And I'll tell you a $250 gas bill is better than a $900 bill per month to fill an oil tank. Now if the building owner would just blow some insulation into the walls.
Fascinating. But I'm curious about the foundation. Did they recreate the soil that the house sat on? Would the house shift due to weight and what effect would that have on the efficiency of energy consumption?
0:38 how do you know which will work? I'm little skeptical about this approach. It gives results for one building, but all buildings are different. The size and position of the openings relative to landscape is very important, quality of construction is very important. I think those can outweigh the differences of weather from one year to another. Of course new building materials and structures are carefully measured by the industry, and engineers calculate the heat losses of a planned house. This model might be better for measuring how bad the old structures are.
The majority of houses in England, especially in the industrial and rural North, were built pre-world-wars. So, to test on a single layer terraced house of the period really does have the "one size fits all" as an excuse.
retrofit comes with 70's style tv. Dodgy tv presenter's. A shed load of asbestos. Stone chipping on the side. And a shifty looking 70's conservatory with Bucket loads of Subsidence. Nice. Just right for a University Student. LOL
I haven't heard of this house even though I study at the University. In fact I'm going to do a project using a raspberry pi to collect data from sensors around campus and put it on a website.
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My grandpa had problems with heat escaping the house very quickly even though he insulated it pretty well. I borrowed my friend's little smartphone-mounted thermal camera and mounted it on a drone and we were able to find all spots in the roof where heat was escaping and after insulating them, my grandpa's coal usage dropped by almost 20%. It's shocking how much heat can escape through seemingly well-insulated roof. Great video!
I'm honestly surprised people still heat with coal.
@@huntsbychainsaw5986 Even though we never even need a heater here (tropical weather) when I heard that brits still used coal to heat their houses, my thoughts is just why?
We used the heat with coal. There are no gas heating mains where I live, so we had to get an oil tank installed. As this was expensive, it took a while for the installation to be done.
our house
in the middle of a building
our house
Well done!
that's... MADNESS!!
I don't understand...?
madness - our house, that should explain it
Yo dawg. I herd you like houses.
"Rain never falls down. It always comes sideways."
This is the most British pair of sentences ever uttered.
And it's also true.
0:50 So Tom said (paraphrasing) "Let there be light!" and there was light and he grinned, cheekily.
this is all at once one of both the lowest and highest tech of houses. what a glorious dichotomy.
I could imagine a tired scientist working odd hours and accidentally falling asleep int he house, only for the other scientists to "haunt" him/her by randomly opening and closing doors.
Why would it scare them? They'd be asleep.
@@joshyoung1440 fr
Joule Terrace. I see watt they did there
I know, it's shocking.
Hey, that's pretty good!
Amperesting stuff!
I personally think it's re volting.
That's brilliant
I'm really glad you did this video. There are many important subjects, like energy efficiency, that unfortunately quite a few simply find boring. Finding something that is widely interesting (even to those who find the overall topic a snore) can really help people think about these topics. I don't know how many people will go away and actually find some energy efficiency methods that suit their house but I'm hopeful.
A new series! I've got a few videos coming up that showcase some brilliant, but not well known, research labs. Normally I'd file them under "Amazing Places", but that doesn't quite feel right, so there's a brand new playlist and a brand new logo. I say "brand new", it's still written in Helvetica, so don't worry too much about change.
Thanks a lot!
yay! btw youre vids are the best
isn't Helvetica copyrighted by Microsoft?
Will you add the San Francisco Bay model to this playlist? (and maybe even reupload with new logo)
Names of fonts and the underlying code can be copyrighted. The look of the font cannot be, which is why there are so many clones of popular fonts. Licensing of fonts varies, and that can control what it's used for. In practice, fonts that come with operating systems and word processing programs are licensed for any use.
Wow. Salford in a good light. Glad to see we have something
I live in an 80 year old house in San Francisco - a lot of homes here are similar in age. It definitely isn't the most energy efficient but we make the best out of it. Better windows, some insulation here, etc. does wonders.
I definitely see some business opportunities for this.
I want one!
this kind of stuff is why I like your channel scott. Plus, its always nice to see a experiment with such meticulous effort to control for variables.
That gleeful look, from turning on the sun at a snap of the fingers :-)
Imagine a reality tv show with someone living inside that house without knowing it was a testing site.
That 70 year old mason wouldn't be the only person laying bricks
You'd need to do something about the windows, and the door.
Basically the Truman Show
Except they can never ever go outside. We could tell them climate change happened and now the weather changes from freezing cold to boiling hot every 30 seconds. That would be a fun show.
Let's make it happen, internet
That is one very well dressed gentleman.
He is looking extremely dapper.
(Are we sure he's actually a scientist?)
His tie's wonky. Definitely studies something.
Big_Adam_2050 truly snazzy
You're talking about Tom, right?
@@klaxoncow He's got a PHD in lookin' fresh
This was one of the best videos yet. Absolutely fascinating.
So did you have an energy efficient tea from the energy efficient kettle in the energy efficient house?
He had ice tea
IgWannA2 but iced tea is less energy efficient than hot
And also a less accomplished rapper than ice cube.
He was a more accomplished actor, though.
The picture in the thumbnail really shows you from your best side Tom
How do you not have more subscribers? This is one of (if not the best) channels on TH-cam.
Aquatic Llamas algorithms
It's not very entertaining to children?
"Joule Terrace" that had me smiling, well done chaps
When they're simulating winter during the actual winter, then the fridge in that house is a cooled space inside a heated space inside a cooled space inside a heated space inside a cold place.
Every single video you post has been very interesting to me. Keep up the good work Tom!
I graduated this year with a degree in physics from the University of Salford, they let us have a walk around joule terrace and the temperature sensors are so precise they will detect a temperature increase from someone walking into the text environment, awesome stuff. Glad to see it cover on your channel!
I study Climate and Energy so I find this extremely interesting. Thanks for the video Tom! :)
Now this is something i literally never heard about anywhere neither the thought of such experiment happening ever came to my mind. I appreciate your content Tom, it not only shows just the exciting things but also those that are quite unique. Have a nice day :)
Good to see people working on this. Old housing has always been a thorn in my eye. They are leaky, poorly insulated and it sucks to live in them in both the winter and summer because it's either too cold or too hot. Sure hope we get some results from this in "the real world" soon.
I can't say for the UK, but updating and improving "old" construction homes (late 1800s, early/mid 1900s) has been a thing in the US for the better part of 3 decades. You can watch episode of "This Old House" from the late 80s/early 90s and they are retrofitting old Boston (where the show originated) homes with improved windows, insulation and the lot. Granted the tech has improved since ~1990, but the intent and underlying methods have been around for a long time.
The troubles come in places like Pomona, California (where I used to live) where homes in "Historic Districts" are so overly protected, that doing reasonable upgrades (like replacing metal swing-out windows with wooden or vinyl) is illegal, because the letter of the law requires "like for like", where a metal swing out window has to be replaced with a metal swing out window. It becomes entirely impractical, because no such things are currently made, requiring custom fabrication, which is expensive, and still won't be much improved because of the materials required.
ThaTyger, Similar to perhaps half the Australian housing stock which was built before insulation became readily available. Weatherboard outside, tongue-in groove inside or something like Masonite, no insulation of any kind, multiple windows to let air in during summer - cold as charity in the cooler months.
One of the coolest things I have seen. Literally.
I'm a student who works in the labs on the floors above this house! Awesome to see Tom was here
Wait, there's stuff above this house?
Richard Emms Its on the bottom floor of the Cockroft / Bodmer labs
I LOVE YOU SCOTT. I DON'T NEED UNI. I JUST NEED TOM!
I ran across your site just today and I must say your post are very interesting, right up my alley as they say, History, geography and science oddities (and those not so odd) I find fun to watch, keep up the good work, nice site.
Its a mere 45 years since professor Randall built 4 highly insulated houses at Salford Uni for the same price as a typical council house. What have we learned since then with 150mm insulated cavities, 300mm roof insulation, triple glazing and heat recovery ventilation. I understand the houses were so well insulated they only needed a low cost gas fire to heat them!
amazing to see how far a university would do to do their experiment.
I really like the built for science series, I hope it continues!
Did students ever have a house party in it?
A housewarming party ^.^
Miren Summers some times they spend a week living in it, so there probably has been a party for "research" reasons
Before it was moved, there's a good chance!
Terraced house in Salford? Almost certainly.
While I love the short form and informative videos like this and a lot of the channel, there are a lot of topics such as this where every now and then you want a 10-20min video explaining in much greater detail and how it can effect me and what I can do to improve my home. I live in a 1940's mid terrace home, rental property, drafty windows, old boiler. It's one of the few videos you do where I would love some more in depth info, not just who is doing the work, but how that work can help me.
Just my 2 cents on the matter
Nothing is more gangster than making it rain for science. Good show.
Its a really interesting place. I went to Salford university and went in that house a few times
Cool Project. I hope they are monitoring the air quality inside the house. Because a lot of these energy efficiency improvement make the houses so airtight you get a build up of damp stale air. This promotes mould which is terrible for our lungs, especially us asthmatics.
Add a dehumidifier and an heat exchanger airbrick. Sorted.
I love this channel! The awesome side of TH-cam right here !
Am I the only one that really wants to see a video on the differences in brick laying?
Jack up the house and rotate it to have the majority of the windows facing the Equator, thus getting the sun back in the house, orientation is the BIGGEST thing in capturing sun energy, and its starts with planning, a house built the direction blocking naturally sunlight will ALWAYS be wrong.
tom scott found himself a new home
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I'd watch it :) I'm gonna love this series!
Great idea for a new series. Very interesting so far.
I go pass the uni pretty much every day on the bus. I had to idea this was in there. Pretty interesting! Thanks Tom :-)
This is every building energetics engineer's wet dream.
It's amazing but I have to admit, you only make good videos. Thanks for your work!
Having a grad student live their to provide body heat and to run appliances might have cost more than actuators, but wear and tear would be useful data. And grad students need the housing.
'Rain never falls down, it always comes sideways'. Baffled.
Because of the British climate, it almost never rains on a still day, so it's almost always windy. The wind will blow the rain sideways. There are places in the world where overhead cover is adequate to keep somewhere dry. The UK isn't one of them; if it's not covered on all four sides, then the rain will blow in.
Yeah, our rain comes in on the winds.
In particularly mountainous areas the rain can go up.
We have rain that is more like a thick mist which is very easily blown around in a squall. So on hillsides the rain can follow the hillside up. I think it's found effect or similar,
Awww, now you got me interested in development of bricklaying techniques during the past 100 years (1:39).
This is my university :D it is a really cool place, they even let undergrad physics students like me do projects in there if we want
Very cool stuff! Glad somebody recommended this channel!
Went here a year back for a tour, walked past the place and was like "Wait a sec, i've seen this from a video"
Never knew this sort of thing existed, another great video Tom.
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Good you pointed that out. I was too. :(
N0616JC Productions you need to hit that bell icon in TH-cam's App to be notified to your phone. I did this years ago knowing TH-cam's algorithms would eventually descend into this kind of garbage
This is one of the coolest things I did not know...
"We have a wind machine"
Turns on fan
Could you do a video explaining the differences between calculating winter?
Daylight winter (Nov, Dec, Jan) - starts 6 weeks before shortest day (solstice Dec 21st is mid-winter)
Meteorological winter (Dec, Jan, Feb) - 3 months of lowest average temperatures
Astronomical winter (Jan, Feb, Mar) - starts on shortest day (solstice Dec 21st)
Tom that's really awesome.
Pretty cool! It looks pretty surreal to see icicles hanging off a house that looks like that (I can't remember any time it's got that cold around here), almost like it's from a post-apocalyptic movie or something.
I like this concept for a series, looking forward to the next video!
So cool. It makes you happy to have science. :)
What was different about the brick laying?
I think it was the course pattern, I'm not sure.
I'd like to know, too.
Victorian homes were solid wall construction, more modern homes have twin walls with a gap to prevent damp getting through.
Dougstillation true, but there's likely more to it than that.
Every sixth row has the bricks set with their headers [the smallest face] exposed. This is known as "common bond" or "American bond" - it's an unusual bond in a British house!
Oh wow, I went here a few years back! It's really, really interesting aha.
That is really cool! Looking forward to more videos in this series :D
Always wondered what that energy house thing was on my campus aha, have a lecture opposite it...
Tom, longer videos. It's ok, TH-cam wants you to make them long.
Longer videos would be more work, especially to keep the quality level the same, and that would mean fewer video's, which would be :(
Isn't the current drama around the TH-cam algorithm about the recent change that it instead prefers daily uploads over all other parameters like video length number of comments etc?
***** No its worse. It was both viewed min and return viewership.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure TH-cam's algorithm mainly focuses on daily upload views now. If you upload everyday but aren't a vlogger you'll be in the recommended section of TH-cam every day it seems.
This is fascinating! Great video, per usual!
this seems pretty similar to NIST's Net Zero House, although that's built with modern techniques and has been used to test out various modern energy harnessing technologies etc.
Joule Terrace - that's actually pretty funny...
Tim E I wonder, does Chris live there?
As in all jokes, there's a bit of truth in there, too--James Prescott Joule was actually born in Salford!
This was so cool, I had no idea about this place!
"We've got wind machines"
*Cuts to shot of large fan*
a house in a house! ... it's a russian doll house!...
It's a russian house!
That is some of the best wordplay I've seen. Props to you! xD
Someone really should put a dollhouse in that house, just for that proper Twilight Zone feeling.
I like to imagine there's a row of houses somewhere in Greater Manchester with a gaping hole in the middle where the house used to belong
This is brilliant!
If I worked on this project, I would live in the house and gather subjective data; i.e. a human constantly tweaking the thermostat to react to their subjective experience of it being too hot or too cold in the house
Interestingly the place I live in is in Providence, RI - it was built in 1900 so no insulation whatsoever. And when we moved in it had an ancient oil fired steam system. That was replaced by a modern hot water circulation system a few years back. And I'll tell you a $250 gas bill is better than a $900 bill per month to fill an oil tank. Now if the building owner would just blow some insulation into the walls.
Well that's awesome!
I love your videos Tom Scott :)
Loved the smile at the end haha
Wow!
Amazing vid!
Love it!
Fascinating. But I'm curious about the foundation. Did they recreate the soil that the house sat on? Would the house shift due to weight and what effect would that have on the efficiency of energy consumption?
Love it! Great video!
hi tom i love your science Experts
I'm a Salford graduate myself. Manufacturing Engineering, 1998 I think.
Very interesting video, though too short as usual.
I like videos of this length, actually. They are short, sweet and to the point.
Don't you feel the need to know more?
Yeah, sure. That's why there's a link in the description for more information.
Dude, I love you
'Joule Terrace'
No matter the research, always keep a sense of humor about it :)
Very interesting!
0:38 how do you know which will work? I'm little skeptical about this approach. It gives results for one building, but all buildings are different. The size and position of the openings relative to landscape is very important, quality of construction is very important. I think those can outweigh the differences of weather from one year to another. Of course new building materials and structures are carefully measured by the industry, and engineers calculate the heat losses of a planned house. This model might be better for measuring how bad the old structures are.
Which is exactly what it is for: Not for testing new models, but for testing improvements to Victorian houses.
The majority of houses in England, especially in the industrial and rural North, were built pre-world-wars. So, to test on a single layer terraced house of the period really does have the "one size fits all" as an excuse.
You missed a perfectly good Truman Show reference vis a vis "Cue the sun".
Like number 42! Sweet, anyway that's a beautiful house in & of itself, what a neat thing!
That's pretty cool.
retrofit comes with 70's style tv. Dodgy tv presenter's. A shed load of asbestos. Stone chipping on the side. And a shifty looking 70's conservatory with Bucket loads of Subsidence. Nice. Just right for a University Student. LOL
Conservatory? On a terrace? Have you gone _quite_ barking?
ayyyy!! I'm Studying Computer Science at UoSalford
I haven't heard of this house even though I study at the University. In fact I'm going to do a project using a raspberry pi to collect data from sensors around campus and put it on a website.
I don't know why, but after you closed that door behind you, I expected some sort of gag where you got locked out.
Big up Manny