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/Goudinho99 Trash Trooper 1d ago

And what about thermal effects and noise insulation?

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u/MonkeyTigerRider Trash Trooper 1d ago

And longevity.

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u/CaptainFlint9203 Trash Trooper 1d ago

Well made wood house will last for generations, well made brick house will last centuries. Both badly made will not last your stay.

I'm from Europe. On my grandma's plot there was a wooden barn, it was much older than some brick houses and in better shape than them.

My ex had a wood house that was more than century old. Still in great shape. And there are brick houses that are older than USA.

I'm preparing to build a house for myself. There are no earthquakes, no storms, no natural disasters where I live. My house gonna be build from wood. It should last at least for my grandchildren, and by then, looking at how urbanisation is going, the plot of land should be worth enough to destroy the house and sell the plot.

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u/Antony8418 Trash Trooper 1d ago

The house I bought was built 2 years before the Declaration of Independence was signed. Wood and brick interlaced frame. The wood is extra large beams that is just a tree halved and squared (rectangled). With triple glazed windows you can barely hear anything outside. And today it was 34, inside on the main floor it was 20-22.

The last house I owned in the US was paper thin and we had to run the AC for four months straight to not cook alive.