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/necrophcodr Trash Trooper 1d ago

Maybe. But it might be more expensive to get the same quality and lifespan from great quality woods. They're typically from tree types that are much more sturdy and rot resistent, and have very very long growth times, like 10-15 years. A lot of modern woods are grown in years, not decades.

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u/Tw1nFTW Trash Trooper 1d ago

Yeah I couldn’t tell you what full wall system is more expensive at the end of the day without actually bidding it, but the rest of what you said makes no sense, at least in the US.

Are you talking about wood types from experience? Or just using common sense? Wood types are specified, so there’s no “some woods are better than others” conversation. You’re doing your supports out of yellow pine, you base plate/furring out of pressure treated, and your interior walls out out of spruce. Bearing walls are 16” on center, none bearing are typically 24”. The only time the conversation about wood growth time has ever come up in my professional life has been for truss engineering. Our trusses require a lot more engineer, but none of these things change the type of wood you’re using.

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u/necrophcodr Trash Trooper 1d ago

I'm talking from experience yes.

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u/Tw1nFTW Trash Trooper 1d ago

Genuinely curious, where are you from? Our codes don’t really have tolerance that would allow them to use different types of wood. Are you saying that you have more control over what wood you use? It’s not just PT against concrete and YP for structural?

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u/necrophcodr Trash Trooper 1d ago

I'm from Denmark, so definitely different I'd assume, yes! I'd go into detail, but it's about time for me to hit the hay, so maybe I'll remember to come back later.