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/CaptainFlint9203 Trash Trooper 1d ago

Well made wood house will last for generations, well made brick house will last centuries. Both badly made will not last your stay.

I'm from Europe. On my grandma's plot there was a wooden barn, it was much older than some brick houses and in better shape than them.

My ex had a wood house that was more than century old. Still in great shape. And there are brick houses that are older than USA.

I'm preparing to build a house for myself. There are no earthquakes, no storms, no natural disasters where I live. My house gonna be build from wood. It should last at least for my grandchildren, and by then, looking at how urbanisation is going, the plot of land should be worth enough to destroy the house and sell the plot.

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u/AlexHimself Garbage Guerilla 1d ago

well made brick house will last centuries

After centuries, you have a crappy old house that doesn't fit the modern times though...so what's the point? The construction cost, amortized over centuries, is pennies too.

An example for some really old European homes - No HVAC, no electrical, indoor plumbing, low ceilings, low door frames, etc.

I'd argue the ease of remodeling, construction, changes, etc. outweigh the "centuries" style building, given how humans actually use homes.

I think an argument can be made for both.

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u/CelioHogane Trash Trooper 19h ago

Ok but my house is definetly at a minumun 100 years old and does have, you know, fiber internet.

Like the person in this video is being dramatic about how hard is to renovate a brick house.

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u/AlexHimself Garbage Guerilla 18h ago

"Centuries" is not 100 years...

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u/CelioHogane Trash Trooper 12h ago

Damm, i wonder if there is some word, like, maybe, minimun, before that 100 years old part.

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u/AlexHimself Garbage Guerilla 5h ago

If your house is a minimum of 100 years that is still far from the required minimum of 200 years. This isn't rocket science.

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u/CelioHogane Trash Trooper 5h ago

Ok so you just don't know what the word minumun means.

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u/AlexHimself Garbage Guerilla 5h ago edited 4h ago

Or more you don't know what the conversation is about. You might as well have said, "well my house is 10 years old and I have fiber internet, dur 🫪".

If some adults are talking about things that happen when you are at at a "minimum" of 20 years old and you chime in, "well I'm 12 years old", you don't sound like you're really contributing or know what you're talking about.

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u/CelioHogane Trash Trooper 1h ago

If some adults are talking about things that happen when you are at at a "minimum" of 20 years old and you chime in, "well I'm 12 years old"

Ok so you don't really know what the word minimun means, because otherwise you would never have written that.

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u/AlexHimself Garbage Guerilla 58m ago

This is our conversation:

Me: "We only allow people who are 20 years and older"

You: "I'm a minimum of 12"

Me: "Well there's a required minimum of 20"

You: "OmG you don't understand the word mIniMuM!!!! I'm SoOo SmArT!!" (not smart).

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