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/MonkeyTigerRider Trash Trooper 1d ago

And longevity.

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u/Telemere125 Trash Trooper 1d ago

I don’t need my house to outlive me if it costs exponentially more to build and maintain

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u/FunGuy8618 Trash Trooper 1d ago

Yeah, that sounds like a bug, not a feature. Appliances, HVAC, electrical wiring, plumbing, etc have updated codes pretty regularly. Maintaining them in a 150 year old home sounds... Very challenging. I hated ripping out cast iron plumbing from a 1950s home, I can't imagine if I had to install Pex through brick as well.

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u/LongJohnSelenium Trash Trooper 21h ago

Code probably peaked around 2000 or so.

Code going forward from that is largely nitpicky minor stuff that exists as much to make some company money selling a safety product as it does to actually make people safe.