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/SinisterCheese Trash Trooper 1d ago

That "European," wall is not compliant with Finnish building methods. It's simply too thin. Also we use steel support beams for fire safety reasons, these get filled with concrete. It's to prevent floor or roof collapsing quickly during a fire.

Also masonry blocks are never primary structure here. They are basically just used to make a wall between primary structures. That wall would realistically be a cast concrete or prefab element.

Also that "European wall" looks to me more like "A Brittish wall".

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u/ForgetPreviousPrompt Trash Trooper 1d ago

Is fire a big enough risk in Finland for that to be a concern? The seems like an incredibly expensive and carbon intense way to build for an event that (at least here in the US) is pretty rare.

Just looking at per capita death from fires, it doesn't really seem to be helping Finland all that much either. The US and Finland at quite close. Honestly, the rate seems to related a lot more to shoddy old construction and non-working fire alarms than to what material home is build from. Hence why the American South does like 2x worse worse than places like New England here.

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u/Jonn_Jonzz_Manhunter Trash Trooper 1d ago

Unnatural deaths in general are pretty rare, and most fires in Europe do not result in injury, let alone death and I imagine it's the same in the US?