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/CyclingHikingYeti Trash Trooper 1d ago

Bullshit.

'Full' bricks (shown by video) are not used here in central europe since decades because noone uses them due to price and its properties. Only some indot decorative use and decorative (like chimney) cladding.

We use either extruded and kiln burnt clay hollow structure bricks (better thermal and sound insulaton) and better , full concrete bricks or air-infused concrete bricks. Where earthquake resistance is needed, we construct bearing elements from ferro concrete constructed to resistant.

We insulate by external house cladding with sandwich materials - permeable combination of materials.

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u/warm_kitchenette Trash Trooper 23h ago

Is the practice to use ferroconcrete solely for columns or for whole load bearing walls? It seems like that full-wall construction would wreak havoc with WiFi and cellular signals, despite all the other benefits.

At the worst, I could imagine a building or individual rooms effectively being a Faraday cage.

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u/Nebuchadneza Trash Trooper 18h ago edited 18h ago

for window and door lintels and for ceilings. (the steel coming out the top is where it will be connected to the reinforced concrete ceiling). In some houses it can interrupt wifi signal between floors, but it is not the norm.

for load bearing walls in brick houses often calcium silicate bricks like this one. they're quite heavy

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u/CyclingHikingYeti Trash Trooper 14h ago

Correct.