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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our split is very hard to heat and cool. Someone told us the stairs act like a chimney, taking all the warm air up. The uppermost level (4th level out of basement, main, 3rd and 4th levels) is never comfortable. Always very cold or very warm. I also feel like we don't have many windows, which I think is more the style of that era than the split. I like that if I'm in the kitchen, I can easily see down into our large family room, but I don't like that I have to turn and go down so many stairs to get from bedrooms to laundry. Through 3 baby gates. This is like a townhome in that regard, but it actually has fewer actual steps. We have a really large lot, so I think it's weird that they built a split instead of just a colonial like some of our neighbors, but the ceilings on the uppermost floor aren't quite as cramped as those colonials are, and it's only one of our 3 beds that has that feature (sloping ceilings). We have no bath on the main level, and as my grandmother gets older, it will eventually be impossible for her to stay with us because of all the stairs. [/quote]

Forgot to add that I really like that our basement gets a lot of daylight and has 3 windows because it isn't much below grade. [/quote]

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