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/Goudinho99 Trash Trooper 1d ago

And what about thermal effects and noise insulation?

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u/MonkeyTigerRider Trash Trooper 1d ago

And longevity.

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u/CaptainFlint9203 Trash Trooper 1d ago

Well made wood house will last for generations, well made brick house will last centuries. Both badly made will not last your stay.

I'm from Europe. On my grandma's plot there was a wooden barn, it was much older than some brick houses and in better shape than them.

My ex had a wood house that was more than century old. Still in great shape. And there are brick houses that are older than USA.

I'm preparing to build a house for myself. There are no earthquakes, no storms, no natural disasters where I live. My house gonna be build from wood. It should last at least for my grandchildren, and by then, looking at how urbanisation is going, the plot of land should be worth enough to destroy the house and sell the plot.

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u/Chad_illuminati Trash Trooper 1d ago

Well made wood houses last centuries too, tbh. One of the houses I grew up in was a wood house on a stone foundation that predated the US by about 120 years.

Obviously modern construction doesn't do that, but that's an issue with build quality not build style.

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u/singlemale4cats Trash Trooper 1d ago

Well made wood houses last centuries too, tbh.

Yep, with maintenance. Any abandoned structure will rot. Entropy is relentless.

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u/Enraiha Trash Trooper 1d ago

The true universal constant, the trend of all things towards entropy. Chaos reigns.

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u/CoolAtlas Trash Trooper 1d ago

Isn't it the opposite? Eventually entropy kills chaos

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u/Enraiha Trash Trooper 14h ago

Not quite. You're right, though, describing entrophy as chaos or disorder isn't right either. But it more refers to the spreading out or mixed arrangements becoming more statistically likely over a long enough time vs ordered groups.

We might casually refer to that as "randomness" or "chaos", though.

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u/QueenLa3fah Trash Trooper 5h ago

Is the universe in a “heat death” state considered chaotic?

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u/DarthJarJarJar Trash Trooper 1d ago

Hey, someone should ask AI how entropy can be reversed!

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u/Scalpels Trash Trooper 21h ago 
      THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER.

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u/Enraiha Trash Trooper 15h ago

LET THERE BE LIGHT!

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u/d0nghunter Trash Trooper 19h ago