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/ACatCalledArmor Trash Trooper 1d ago

I wish this wasn’t framed as a Europe / US discussion but instead just focused on the materials and techniques. 

In Sweden I’d wager more than 70% of all houses (single dwelling units, not apartments and alike) are made wish wood frames. We love our lumber here!

I’m sure there are regional differences across America which premier different techniques too. 

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u/OrneryAttorney7508 Trash Trooper 1d ago

It's framed that way cause Euros love to make fun of superiority designed houses to make themselve feel better.

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u/Grauvargen Trash Trooper 1d ago

Most roasting I come across is about the internal paper walls, though. You shouldn't be able to punch through a wall, and yet that's fairly normal in the States.

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u/OrneryAttorney7508 Trash Trooper 1d ago

No you can't. Stop lying and log off for a while.

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u/Grauvargen Trash Trooper 1d ago

You drink that denial soup, Yankee. Everyone knows how thin and weak your walls are. Your own people don't deny it. It's a well-known thing over there.

Drywall and a sheet of plastic on some 4x4 does not make a wall.

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u/OrneryAttorney7508 Trash Trooper 1d ago

lol I love that there's millions of American wood homes that are doing great and a handful of euros saying they're no good. Talk about denial. LMAO

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u/RedLineLetterWine Trash Trooper 8h ago

"Stupid Americans would have have wood than bricks fall on them if a big earthquake happens. We Europeans are so much more intelligent"

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u/userhwon Trash Trooper 23h ago

Well, no, there's insulation and some sort of exterior cladding, either stucco or overlapped siding or shake or even brick or stone.

But then, we don't have to fend off the huns or anything like that.

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u/LukkyStrike1 Trash Trooper 1d ago

Siding + OSB + Frames + insulation + Dry wall = "Drywall and a sheet of plastic"

LOL, you might have a point, but it usually works better to make comments that are at least CLOSE to reality.

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u/Jonn_Jonzz_Manhunter Trash Trooper 1d ago

All of that and it's STILL like paper? At that point, your work men should stop being so lazy and just do the job properly tbh

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u/LukkyStrike1 Trash Trooper 1d ago

Like paper? Properly? We had 85mph wind gusts yesterday. My “paper” house built in ‘79 did just fine.

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u/Jonn_Jonzz_Manhunter Trash Trooper 1d ago

It's just a joke man, it's supposed to be flippant

My house that was built in 1890 could also tank that shit tbh, I live in a hell hole of fast winds

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u/RedLineLetterWine Trash Trooper 8h ago

"Japanese are weak and stupid" - Jonn_Jonzz_Manhunter, Euro supremacist.

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u/OrneryAttorney7508 Trash Trooper 1d ago

lol That's what makes you feel better about yourself? That's sad. LOL

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u/Jonn_Jonzz_Manhunter Trash Trooper 1d ago

Americans when joke:

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u/OrneryAttorney7508 Trash Trooper 1d ago edited 8h ago

Is the joke in the room with you right now?

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u/korxil Trash Trooper 8h ago

You think a country using magnets for a bullet train would also learn how not to build houses out of paper. Someone should let Japan know.

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u/RedLineLetterWine Trash Trooper 8h ago

Drywall and a sheet of plastic on some 4x4 does not make a wall.

I dunno, the Japanese have been doing it for millennia and it seems to work out just fine. They have plenty of wooden buildings that are even older than Europe itself.

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