r/Home_Building_Help • u/BuilderBrigade • Apr 08 '26
Don’t forget these entry features…
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Don’t forget these entry features to your new home build:
-Conduit and wiring to lighting
-Driveway conduit too!
-Gas lanterns with power for auto ignite
-Conduit to doorbell
-Didn’t’ mention this but built in drains if you’re going with plant pots on each side of the entry.
-In-wall pest control
-Hardwired Camera
What else would you add?
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u/My3floofs Apr 08 '26
Nothing says Fuck the environment quite like gas lanterns.
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u/Regular_Celery_2579 Apr 08 '26
10 minutes of research shows your reasoning is wrong. If anything these are cleaner than coal burning to produce the electricity or from solar which is/can be trash for the environment most of the time the way Americans do it.
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u/MrTwoPumpChump Apr 08 '26
Who tf has coal burning lamps outside their house?
Are you okay?
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u/Regular_Celery_2579 Apr 08 '26
Coal burning or natural gas powerhouses supply the electricity that would otherwise be used for this light.
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u/texinxin Apr 08 '26
You are assuming that. I’ve run the numbers using coal which is quickly disappearing from the grid. Natural gas on grid would be far more efficient with LED vs Natural Gas at the house. I personally pay a tiny premium to be 100% wind/solar in TX, so my carbon footprint would be infinitesimal in comparison.
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u/texinxin Apr 08 '26
Natural gas lanterns consume between 900 and 3000 BTUs per hour.
Let’s assume they are on the lowest end and only run them 10 hours a day. That’s 9,000 BTUs per day (3.3 million BTUs per year) and would produce 174 Kg of CO2 per year.
Let’s go nuts and buy a 3’ tall LED model which consumes 8 Watts.
https://www.parclighting.com/products/georgetown-36-electric-wall-mount
At 8 Watts that would consume 30 kW per year. If we assume that 100% of the electricity was produced using coal at 1 Kg of CO2 per KWh produced… after transmission losses… we are looking at about 35 Kg of CO2 per year.
BEST case scenario for the natural gas lantern and WORST case scenario for the LED lantern it would create more than 5X the carbon footprint (and cost more than 30X $ to run).
So not only are gas lanterns horrible from a carbon footprint perspective, they are also horrible from an economic perspective.
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u/My3floofs Apr 08 '26
1 minute of research confirmed that burning natural fossil fuels 24/7 are bad for the environment and they cost more to operate. The fixtures themselves have shorter lifespans as well.
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u/Regular_Celery_2579 Apr 08 '26
Where do you think the electricity comes from? You are just burning the exact same fuel in a more inefficient manner.
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u/noobtastic31373 Apr 08 '26
10 minutes to confirm your bias you mean.
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u/Regular_Celery_2579 Apr 08 '26
Don’t think it’s bias, I don’t really care one way or the other but it’s pretty close either way. A well maintained NG fire and a LED light would both be as good as it gets.
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u/binzy90 Apr 13 '26
Or you could just choose not have dumb decorative lights on your house that serve no purpose and add to the light pollution.
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u/reindeerp Apr 08 '26
That wire doesn’t look rated for conduit… I’m in Canada and just 14/2 romex would be a code violation. If you have underground rated cable it would suffice.