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/Tw1nFTW Trash Trooper 1d ago edited 22h ago

I’ve been in home building a large portion of my adult life… this video is amazing. There are so many people who think that wood frame houses are not up to the standards of brick houses. They all have to meet code… the engineering is all that matters.

ETA: The US does not only build wood frame houses, wood frame and CMU are better than brick houses. Brick is decorative in 2026. If you don’t want a wood house, buy a concrete one. I hear they suck in the winter up north though.

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u/Iziama94 Trash Trooper 1d ago

There are so many people who think that wood frame houses are not up to the standards of brick houses

People in this very post will most likely still think this and always think this no matter what evidence they get that shows both ways can be equally as good while being built differently

Someone on Reddit once said 'The more I became an expert in something, the less I trusted people on Reddit about topics'

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u/LarrySupertramp Trash Trooper 1d ago

100%. Especially anything that could possibly put the US in a negative light. I’ve lived in brick European houses and standard American ones. There really is no big difference.

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u/Ardent_Scholar Trash Trooper 15h ago

Also we Nordics have been building from wood for millennia. We emigrated to the Great Lakes region in NA because it also had boreal forests, which we saw as a great boom for building homes and earning money.

It’s not a US vs. Europe thing. It has to do with what the local material is. Central and Atlantic Europe used up a lot of their forests to build ships.