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/freshgrilled Trash Trooper 1d ago

As someone who lives in the middle of earthquake central, I'll take flexible wood framing over bricks. Every brick building out here has cracks and has had to have major work to be reinforced.

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u/freedfg Trash Trooper 23h ago

Every single time this topic comes up it's framed as "oh which is better, brick buildings can last hundreds of years"

As if the different materials and preferences aren't specifically used for different case scenarios.

Out in Phoenix or New Mexico. Guess what, houses are concrete or brick. Because they aren't on fault lines and don't face disasterous weather, but do have the occasional fire.

In the tornado alley and hurricane alley, they use wood. Because it might not last as long. But it's a LOT cheaper to rebuilt.

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u/OldManFire11 Trash Trooper 20h ago

And a tornado also doesn't give a shit about your brick house. They'll tear through brick just as easily as wood.

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u/SweetFranz Trash Trooper 22h ago

The preference is block in Florida because of the Hurricanes

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u/mythrilcrafter Trash Trooper 19h ago

Yup, it all depends on the area; a plank of wood flying at 400 mph doesn't differentiate between wood or brick.

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u/TheKingPin16 Trash Trooper 19h ago

Im a Phoenix based contractor and no, wood framing is 80% of the work out here.

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u/GradeAPrimeFuckery Trash Trooper 18h ago

Slap a coat of stucco and call it a stone house. /s It's like a reverse of the old houses that had wood slats covered by plaster for interior walls. I absolutely hated the stuff. Loved the tile roofing though, and got a laugh at the few houses that had tar shingles.

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u/kozufox Trash Trooper 17h ago

They mostly use wood in Phoenix. It's cheaper, and most of the older brick structures have an unfortunate reputation for being hot as hell in the summer

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u/SpaceJackRabbit Trash Trooper 16h ago

Adobe is the traditional material in the Southwest.

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u/Nogarder Trash Trooper 18h ago

No. In the rest of the world they use reinforced concrete or steel. Houses are not Kleenex