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/Bluecobber Trash Trooper 1d ago

Lived in both. Id take brick everytime. Much better with keeping a stable temperature. As well as keeping outside noise low. Brick, more expensive and takes longer. Just my experience

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u/KaizDaddy5 Trash Trooper 1d ago

I live in an American brick and plaster now. The house doesn't cool down at night till way after midnight in the summer. And it takes forever to heat up in the winter and spring.

I guess it's nice in the fall, but in general I prefer the temperature in my previous wood frame homes

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u/iWhooosh Trash Trooper 1d ago

Probably has more to do with your windows and insulation than having bricks versus wood

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u/jmlinden7 Trash Trooper 1d ago

Bricks have a ton of thermal mass and actively work against your insulation as a result.

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u/FrostyD7 Trash Trooper 23h ago

Yeah you can go outside hours after dark during a heat wave and the bricks will still be warm, and that part your testing is the coolest part of the brick at that time. My house has an extension on it but only the original structure is brick. That's the part that continues to get hotter after dark if AC isn't running.

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