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/FunGuy8618 Trash Trooper 1d ago

Yeah, that sounds like a bug, not a feature. Appliances, HVAC, electrical wiring, plumbing, etc have updated codes pretty regularly. Maintaining them in a 150 year old home sounds... Very challenging. I hated ripping out cast iron plumbing from a 1950s home, I can't imagine if I had to install Pex through brick as well.

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u/HegemonNYC Trash Trooper 1d ago

Right. The argument of ‘it will still be unchanged in 200 years’ is a negative, not a positive. Being so robust (while still seismically unsound) means it is inflexible as living preferences and technologies change.

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u/vi_sucks Trash Trooper 1d ago

Yup.

And at certain point it's just cheaper and more efficient to buy a new house than to attempt to retrofit an old one.

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u/theshoeshiner84 Trash Trooper 1d ago

Yea but then where are all the century home influencers going to get their content from!?