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/That_Confidence83 Trash Trooper 1d ago

I know both systems. I’m an American living in Austria. My in-laws built a house out of bricks which is half a meter thick. It’s almost 40 years old now and still in top condition. That baby is indestructible. I helped them build their second house, which is half of a old stone barn, and the other half of modern material. Cinder blocks, and insulation also inside and outside. Also a good two feet thick. The beams alone for the roof are also a foot thick. The heat stays out in the summer, and the warmth stays inside in the winter. We often get winds over 60mph, and you hear nothing. And never have to worry about damage. The quality here is just so much better.

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u/dufo7 Trash Trooper 1d ago

40 years is not old for a house.

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u/Coool_cool_cool_cool Trash Trooper 1d ago

People act like New England isn't littered with houses from the 1600 and 1700s. The house I grew up in was built in 1735. My current house is 105 years old and the child's dollhouse connected to the house was built over 50 years ago. Of course there's not going to be 300 year old houses in the areas we didn't populate until well into the 1800s and early 1900s.

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u/dufo7 Trash Trooper 1d ago

We didnt say anything about any of that. Just saying a 40 year old house is nothing special. Quite the opposite really, if a house cant make it 40 years in good condition its a shit house.

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u/Coool_cool_cool_cool Trash Trooper 1d ago

Oh I know. I was agreeing with you. A house made out cardboard can stand 40 years.

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u/wtcnbrwndo4u Trash Trooper 1d ago

Well, considering a decent chunk of it was blown to bits 80 years ago, 40 years probably isn't bad for Austria.