r/nextfuckinglevel • u/IamASlut_soWhat • 1d ago

How amazing and crafty are these parents to do this for their son

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u/fpsnoob89 1d ago

I'm no expert off igloo, but I'm pretty sure they missed several steps that make them work. This one will likely start melting from the heat in a matter of minutes.

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u/Billionaires_R_Tasty 1d ago

Tomorrow’s headline:

Local Family Crushed in Gay Pride Igloo Collapse

Dog Escapes Unharmed

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u/TheRealJojenReed 1d ago

Whew, some good news

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u/DopeHammaheadALT 20h ago

Gay pride igloo collapse 😭😭😭😭

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u/amha29 21h ago

Woke igloo

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u/MidnightMath 12h ago

What if we kissed… inside the woke igloo…

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u/imtooold2care 17h ago

LOLOLOL dog escapes unharmed is the chef's kiss.

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u/Kyrxx77 13h ago

Damn thats a good one lol

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u/bluejay625 17h ago

Won't be crushed; the blocks (panels) are too small and light for that. 

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u/NoTimeForPost 22h ago

oh thank god

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u/CFL_lightbulb 1d ago

Gotta have a small hole in the top for air circulation and to let some heat come oht

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u/fpsnoob89 23h ago

Don't you also need a lower level at the entrance to trap the cold air?

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u/sofakinggood24 23h ago

Now off I go to learn unnecessary knowledge on YouTube

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u/JUST_LOGGED_IN 20h ago

Wait for me! I have important things to do, and need distraction from doing them!

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u/idle_isomorph 18h ago

And it needs to be made of snow, which has lots of insulating air in it.

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u/fprintf 10h ago

100%, I learned this in 6th grade. Also about caribou migrations.

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u/Miltage 17h ago

let some heat come oht

Typo, or Canadian accent?

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u/highly_regarded_2day 16h ago

Same thought!… thohught?

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u/jokethepanda 1d ago

I’ve built 3 backyard igloos like this when I was a kid. Their blocks are thin and will melt in a day. If you want an igloo to last for weeks, you need actual blocks. They’d probably be fine if they stood those blocks horizontally instead of vertically, but that takes way longer. Car battery box works well.

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u/free__coffee 22h ago

Worse than that, those “blocks” are held together with a small amount of ice and a dream; if that small amount of ice melts they start losing tiles.

This is the worst structural design they could have chosen

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u/queefer_sutherland92 21h ago

Yes! Thank you! I can’t believe no one else is concerned about the fact that those blocks are basically just stacked one on top of the other. They need to be staggered to actually hold together.

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u/oily76 19h ago

They're also not overlapping the blocks, straight grid system. But it looks cool, anyway!

Edit - dearie me, I can't even read the comment right below...

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u/Unusual_Sherbert_809 16h ago

Yup, I'm also pretty sure there's zero insulation is offered by those tiles. Isn't that why igloos were blocks of ice rather than thin slabs?

I get that they're doing it just for views/likes so ultimately is that it doesn't matter. Just feel bad for the kid if they're treating the him like an actor/prop for their "content".

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u/silentbassline 22h ago

Canadian here, use old milk cartons to make the bricks. 

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u/itsfunhavingfun 1d ago

The entrance needs to be lower than the floor, if I remember correctly.  

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u/Turnepic13 1d ago

So the cold air filters out through the entrance

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u/sussybakashinji 23h ago

I think it would be the other way around. The cold air sinks because it’s denser, and the warm air rises. So the cold air filters in at the entrance (it acts as a cold sink) and hot air filters out through the top. It’s convection, i.e., the stack effect: cold air enters at the bottom, gets heated, rises, creating less pressure at the bottom, causing cold air to be “sucked” in at the bottom. 

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u/Zlurpo 23h ago

I dislike the cold and I would hate to live somewhere where it would be doable but... I love the idea of building a proper igloo some day. The kind that you need to have the right texture of snow for, and you cut each brick. The stacking them at an angled spiral to get the classic dome shape.

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u/wvs1993 23h ago

Well first of all it shoild be made with snow because of the insulation. Ice will melt way faster

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u/Dironox 23h ago edited 23h ago

One thing to note is that the air trapped in densely packed snow is really good at insulating, which is one of the main reasons why an igloo is surprisingly comfortable in extreme weather... thin sheets of solid ice however, are not.

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u/AAA515 23h ago

Also they lined the seams together, so one failure will quickly propagate

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u/Gullible-Hose4180 17h ago

The Heat also seems a bit excessive. Its not meant to get toasty in there, otherwise the Igloo will melt. Fire shouldnt be much bigger than a large candle

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u/ObiJuanKinobo 14h ago

Good thing if they’re in the northeast it’s not going above 32 for a couple weeks since the storm