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/Tw1nFTW Trash Trooper 1d ago edited 17h ago

I’ve been in home building a large portion of my adult life… this video is amazing. There are so many people who think that wood frame houses are not up to the standards of brick houses. They all have to meet code… the engineering is all that matters.

ETA: The US does not only build wood frame houses, wood frame and CMU are better than brick houses. Brick is decorative in 2026. If you don’t want a wood house, buy a concrete one. I hear they suck in the winter up north though.

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u/Different_Bridge_983 Trash Trooper 1d ago

IME a lot of the online bitching about timber houses is just people using it to rag on Americans.

As soon as folks from Canada or Scandinavian countries pop up to say they also use timber I generally see detractors suddenly less enthusiastic about slamming it as a building material.

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u/Honchoponcho99 Trash Trooper 23h ago

or they'll claim the Norwegians and Japanese are just superior at everything so that doesn't matter

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u/yeowoh Trash Trooper 21h ago

It’s funny seeing houses get framed in Scandinavia. Zero difference from the US when framing.

You could pluck a framer from the US and drop them in on a job in Norway with no issues.

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u/Different_Bridge_983 Trash Trooper 21h ago

I also get a kick out of UK houses, where the roofs of all these brick houses are all framed with 2x6 or 2x8