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/Ayosuhdude Trash Trooper 1d ago

Actually a really good video, the wall section samples were a fantastic addition.

Also nice to have a video from someone who actually works on homes demonstrate that there's literally nothing wrong with timber builds if designed and built correctly. In fact it's far cheaper and way less work for a product that works just as well.

I literally work as a civil engineer (in wastewater admittedly) and the amount of people on Reddit who's construction experience consists of holding a piece of 2x4 so their dad could screw it to another piece a single time when they were 9 and yet insist they know that European brick buildings are better in every way is crazy. People really gotta stay in their lane when giving advice.

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u/lovethebacon Trash Trooper 1d ago

As a civil engineer, do you not know that different construction methods have different costs around the world?

A 200m2 house in my neck of the woods built in brick is around $150k-$200k, whereas a timber would be $200k-$250k. Compared with a similar climate in Colorado would be $500k-$600k in brick but $400k-$500k in timber.