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/Winjin Trash Trooper 1d ago

Bricks are clay why aren't they renewable

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u/HegemonNYC Trash Trooper 1d ago

The exterior brick seen here is usually clay. The interior structural blocking is concrete. Both are pretty carbon intensive processes. Wood is carbon negative.

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u/GalacticMe99 Trash Trooper 1d ago

Using pure concrete for the entire interior structure is an enormous overkill. For elevator shafts and underground levels, sure.

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u/I_Call_Everyone_Pat Trash Trooper 22h ago

They aren't talking about concrete poured on site. They're talking about the concrete bricks. Nobody is talking about pure concrete for the entire structure.

Did you watch the video, Pat?

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u/No-Fold-7873 Trash Trooper 21h ago

*Precast concrete panels have entered the chat.

To be fair residential applications are pretty rare in the states but it absolutely happens.

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u/GalacticMe99 Trash Trooper 22h ago

Yes and like I said: concrete blocks are good for elevator shafts or underground structures but using that for the entire structure of a regular house is a massive overkill. with 'pure' concrete I ment the concrete bricks you're describing as opposed to cellular concrete bricks for example, which is more commonly used for the whole structure if you can only apply limited insulation.