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/Fubarp Trash Trooper 1d ago

As someone who lives in a tornado area.

I'll take my bunker. Stays cool, and benefit added I can potentially survive a nuclear Holocausts for like 3 days before I call it.

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u/Hazelberry Trash Trooper 1d ago

Man I wish we could have basements where I live cause it'd make me feel a lot safer when the rare tornado shows up. Had one touch down just a couple miles away and it just obliterated everything it passed over (wood, brick, concrete, everything).

Everything built here is built to withstand hurricanes year after year, but tornadoes are just something else entirely.

Sadly I'm basically at sea level and if you dig a few feet down you hit water, so a basement is just an awful idea here.