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@ Exhaust Air
As is well known, warm air tends to rise rather than fall. Letting it out at the bottom doesn’t fail despite crossflows, but it does require suction first or moves correspondingly slower than if it were released at the top. So it could have been done more cleverly, but it’s not a big deal.

@ Triggering Criticism
There are basically two "kinds" of forum users: invisible (aka silent readers) and visible (question askers, responders/commenters). Compared to the silent readers, the question asker naturally has the disadvantage of being "visible" / "concrete" / "graspable" and "standing in the wind" – but they also have an advantage over the silent reader: namely, to steer answers with their concrete question, whereas the silent reader has to live off the crumbs that partly fit their own problem from these questions. So for the disadvantage, there is also an advantage, for which one should be grateful, i.e., one should not overvalue the "ha, you did that wrong" criticism and not let the joy at the "here we can still tell you in time which detail you better reorder" criticism be spoiled.

The user is so present here that it seems rather odd if you leave out the name.

And, if you look closely: I always criticize the builders on the factual level. I hit hard against architects or specialist planners who, to put it kindly, deliver a work quality far below their fee level; and against software that deceives the layman into thinking it can replace the architect, but in truth is at best the draftsman’s apprentice.

I am of the opinion that the "consumer" builder has a legitimate claim that the architect is not only an architect on his brass plate but significantly surpasses his client in construction planning skills. Drawing stairs without visualizing head clearance in front of one’s mind’s eye may happen to a layman – but not to a professional who finally doesn’t take only symbolic coins for it. When professionals reproduce lay mistakes without comment, in my opinion this should not be commented on with kid gloves. And cases where "architects" ruin dream houses by draping blackwater downpipes into prime cubist drywall sculptures between dining table and sofa, unfortunately, we see here not rarely.

I absolutely do not say "none" of such counterexamples here, but only very few in pictures. The reason is quite simple: 1. I can paint much worse than I write; 2. I lack pictures to which I would have the rights; 3. I lack the consciousness of wrongdoing to use foreign pictures without a license.

And by the way, I have always stood by my conviction that renting, despite all owner’s pride, is a housing finance form that should not be underestimated in terms of flexibility (and I even like to emphasize that the half kilometer between the front door and the garage gate is not my property). So if anyone after reading my posts thinks that I would already be outdoing the Poolhouse Neuschwanstein: I couldn’t help that, that film would have to have been started in one’s own mental cinema.

Yep, meant exactly you... wanted to spare others your name in *this regard* or not provoke additionally.

How many times have I already read it from you: *Nonsense architect, find another one* and with that the supposed humor, which is packaged in stories.....

When newcomers post such things here, such a comment can be a real turn-off and users keep their distance from this forum.

The screed was poured on Tuesday! We were already able to go in yesterday to air it out. The heating system is currently being installed.

Is that water?!?!?!