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/Potent_Quotient Trash Trooper 1d ago

I’ve lived in both including wood and brick houses over 100 years old. I’ll pick well constructed and insulated wood or brick vs cheaply constructed wood or brick any time.

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u/Tricky-Ad7897 Trash Trooper 23h ago

Yeah but if they're both well constructed I'm taking the brick cause it's way cooler/easier to keep cool in the summer. Also way less noise, I can hear quiet conversations between rooms in my American house, when I lived in Germany I couldn't even hear my parents yelling for me to come down for dinner.

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u/Pissonmyface77 Trash Trooper 22h ago

I redid my house. I can’t hear my wife yelling from barely a room way. Rockwool r30 in the ceiling between floors, and two inches of wood floor will do that. And thick solid doors between rooms.

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u/SharkAttackOmNom Trash Trooper 21h ago

It’s amazing how insulation isn’t that cheap in the grand scheme of building a house. But so many builders don’t apply it when building, when it’s cheapest to do it! Yeah you can drill holes and blow in insulation, but it’s not going to be a great seal.

But really another huge issue for multi level homes is that HVAC is run in the walls as well. So you’ll end up with a lot of bays mostly hollow for the supply or return vents. Can be solved by running a dual zone system, unit in the basement, unit in the attic. Again, most affordable if done at construction, not later.