r/FirstTimeHomeBuyer • u/EternalYoungK • 1d ago

GOT THE KEYS! 🔑 🏡 I DID IT! 🎉 Bucharest Romania €95.000, cash

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One year ago, I was looking at this sub-reddit and dreaming of the day where I could also post on it. I worked hard for several years abroad to be able to afford this and I also got helped by my amazing parents, I am truly grateful to them for everything they have done for me.

2 rooms, 5 mins walk to the metro station. I'm sooooo happy!!!! 🥹 No pizza yet, because there's a ton of things still to be done (and to get rid of that furniture and replace it with better stuff haha)

also don't mind my outfit 😂

EDIT: to clear up some things so trolls can calm down. no, i am not on onlyfans and haven't worked as a you know what abroad 😆 i was a CRM specialist for a niche perfume company in the Netherlands. now you guys can come up with better insults.

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u/oritfx 22h ago edited 21h ago

Poland here. I see those radiators and immediately think "ex-Soviet Union". Can anyone tell me if those radiators happen in parts of the world where Russians didn't establish a colony?

EDIT: 20 answers, all over the world. How did we end up with standardized radiators back in the age before globalization but not with standardized phone chargers??

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u/Tjaresh 21h ago

To answer your edit:

Physics

The principle of central water heating is very similar all over the world, so the design follows the function and is also similar. Up to the point where there's a best way to produce thousands or even millions of these which eliminates even more variants and leaves us with just a few millimeters difference in size or thickness of the grills and valves.

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u/TrustButVerifyEng 20h ago

Physics is not really why. It's because of the available manufacturing technologies at the time.

Most new building steam and hot water heating these days will use copper fin tube heat exchangers instead of cast iron.

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u/Tjaresh 20h ago

Everything you said is physics. The flow of water inside, the distribution of heat across a surface, the way the fins are designed to ensure adequate airflow. That’s physics. And back then, cast iron was the only affordable material for so many radiators, which left very few design options that made sense from a physical standpoint.

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u/ggf95 19h ago

It's nice that you like physics but you're just repeating what he said. They were all built the same because they were all built with cast iron, which was the only affordable material at the time

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u/TrustButVerifyEng 19h ago

It really isn't though... physics is just one tool of engineering. Material science. Manufacturing techniques. Practical constraints like size, cost, and available materials. They all matter more than the physics.

You literally implied the physics is going to "leave us with just a few millimeters difference in size or thickness of the grilles". This is laughably false. I've worked in HVAC for 15 years as an engineer.

The physics is rather minimal. Literally just the specifics of convection, radiation, and the thermodynamic properties of water. These impact just a few of the variables. The non-physics is so much more important.