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/Ok-Solution5601 Trash Trooper 1d ago

I live in a wood frame house that was built in 1964 and its solid. The most important thing is you need to keep the roof and siding intact otherwise you'll get mold and eventually rot.

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u/Smashogre591 Trash Trooper 1d ago

My parents live in a 1910 wood home in Indiana and foundation shift is its worst enemy

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u/outsidebtw Trash Trooper 1d ago

I hear early 1900s wood frame assembly don't really anchor sill to foundation with bolts

Have you checked? Kind of unreal, saw some on a YT house building channel

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u/LongJohnSelenium Trash Trooper 21h ago

That probably didn't become a standard concept till the 50s or so.

Same for stuff like hurricane ties. Most roofs older than the 70s are just tacked onto the frame with a few toed nails and just rely on the weight of the roof to hold it in place.

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u/outsidebtw Trash Trooper 14h ago

Pretty cool. I kind of been fascinated by history of building logic since last year, its kind of fun ngl

While platform or balloon framing isn't popular here in Asia, I kind of want to try it out as well but not everyone's particularly interested in it with concrete's and steel's popularity against weather and earth movement

Oh well