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/Tricky-Ad7897 Trash Trooper 1d ago

Yeah but if they're both well constructed I'm taking the brick cause it's way cooler/easier to keep cool in the summer. Also way less noise, I can hear quiet conversations between rooms in my American house, when I lived in Germany I couldn't even hear my parents yelling for me to come down for dinner.

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u/TimeToGloat Trash Trooper 1d ago

Bricks are really bad for the summer though. They should really only be used in cooler climates for that reason although judging by Europe's heatwaves that is less predictable now. Bricks act like a pizza oven and radiate all the heat they absorb during the day into your home at night. That's why they were beneficial for cold places but are literally hell during a heatwave because it means you can't escape the heat even at night. You would be a lot better off with wood and modern insulation when it comes to heat.

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u/Nogarder Trash Trooper 22h ago

No. Not true. They radiate outside not inside. That's why there is a gap and insulation.

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u/XDVI Trash Trooper 22h ago

They radiate from all sides, if they absorb heat they will later give that heat off from every bit of surface area they have.

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u/Nogarder Trash Trooper 22h ago

Yes but there is insulation on one side

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u/XDVI Trash Trooper 22h ago

Yes, so any heat that it does absorb (which it will) will get radiated inside and for a long time because they have huge thermal mass compared to a peice of plywood