Everyone Laughed When He Boarded Up His Porch For Winter — Until His Cabin Got 20 Degrees Warmer скачать в хорошем качестве

Everyone Laughed When He Boarded Up His Porch For Winter — Until His Cabin Got 20 Degrees Warmer

In eighteen sixty-eight, when Acadian settler Jean-Baptiste Leblanc nailed thick planks across his entire wraparound porch each October, his New Brunswick neighbors thought he was "ruining a perfectly good galerie." While their cabins took the full brunt of winter winds hitting log walls directly, Jean-Baptiste had created a sacrificial thermal layer—his enclosed porch trapped still air that insulated his home like a giant winter coat. The howling winds struck his porch boards instead of his house walls, while the dead air space between maintained a steady buffer zone that kept interior temperatures twenty degrees warmer than exposed cabins. When spring came and neighbors compared their firewood consumption—Jean-Baptiste using half as much while staying far more comfortable—every homesteader quietly began measuring their porches for winter boarding.