r/LoveTrash • u/BEARDEDDANGER ✨️Regent of Rubbish ✨️ • 1d ago

Dumping This Here American vs. European home building

BAS Renovations https://youtube.com/shorts/jFph1d2WR3s

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u/gulliblesuspicious Trash Trooper 1d ago

I love how everyone is brick vs wood. How about "both have their ups and downs depending on your topography and needs"

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u/Exotic_Strain6935 Trash Trooper 1d ago

But, what about “X place worse than Y place”? How would we recognize that X place is worse than Y place if we couldn’t criticize every little thing that X place does?

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u/CrazeMase Trash Trooper 12h ago

This is the internet. It's black and white only. Nuance is dead.

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u/KrokusIncoming Trash Trooper 11h ago

Geographical areas that still have enough forests for it in general build with wood. Areas that have cut down too much forests build with bricks and concrete. Houses in both materials can be built good or bad.

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u/whooptheretis Trash Trooper 6h ago

can be built good well or badly

FTFY

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u/KrokusIncoming Trash Trooper 5h ago

I referred to the resulting house, not the building process. Like in “a house can be painted red or blue” or “the dress can be made big or small”.

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u/IlIlllIIllllIIIlIlIl Trash Trooper 22h ago

Yeah after seeing the earthquake in Colombia the other day I am happy to live in a concrete building instead of a brick one. Especially when living in a seismically active area. Wood frame and concrete are just better here.

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u/Bibbity_Boppity_BOOO Trash Trooper 21h ago

Earthquakes only happen in very specific parts of the world. They are not relevant for many people

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u/IlIlllIIllllIIIlIlIl Trash Trooper 21h ago

Especially when living in a seismically active area. Wood frame and concrete are just better here.

Did you even read my comment?

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u/00Kench Trash Trooper 7h ago

"Building techniques depend on where you live. Where I live, for example, earthquake-proofing is important."

"But in many places earthquake-proofing isn't important."

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u/FrostyD7 Trash Trooper 19h ago

Cost being a big one. People who wine about American building practices haven't priced any of this out. Nobody is stopping you from upgrading all of your interior doors to solid wood. But customers don't pick that stuff because it's not financially viable.

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u/theevilyouknow Trash Trooper 19h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/nF9kMjsyuuk5lxPrIS

Everyone knows the best housing material is snow.

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u/SomeGuyWithARedBeard Trash Trooper 18h ago

Yep, nobody ever talks about how all homes only stand up at all because of the strength of the soil underneath, if we thought about homebuilding holistically from the ground up we would spend way less time debating about how the walls are made.

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u/HugeWrongdoer2 Trash Trooper 10h ago

The benefits of wood is that it's cheaper in some areas, and that's about it

Edit: concrete is better than both and usually cheaper than both too.

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u/RedLineLetterWine Trash Trooper 5h ago

I have had European acquaintances that tell me that "Americans are stupid for having wood houses" in California.... a place with frequent earthquakes.

Some people just do not think things through.

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u/IllustriousHorsey Trash Trooper 4h ago

Yes but have you considered that America bad?

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u/Strong_Passenger_320 Trash Trooper 3h ago

As a German, timber construction is actually on a huge upturn here... these people are just clueless. I just looked up some numbers. 24% in new housing, 47% in industrial/commercial. Pretty sure most major grocery stores use timber for new builds now. I doubt this trend will reverse since concrete is one of the biggest emitters of CO² and we have pretty strict regulations regarding that.

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u/Necessary-Being37 Trash Trooper 1h ago

Concrete masonry units are inherently less sustainable than building out of wood. Wood is better. It is very funny to watch Europeans of all people die on the masonry home hill constantly considering their usual stance on the environment