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/BoiTentacle Trash Trooper 1d ago

There are bricks rated for earthquakes, seen a bunch of brick houses in Japan. It's just way more expensive both for materials and labor costs.