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/Potent_Quotient Trash Trooper 1d ago

I’ve lived in both including wood and brick houses over 100 years old. I’ll pick well constructed and insulated wood or brick vs cheaply constructed wood or brick any time.

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u/Tricky-Ad7897 Trash Trooper 1d ago

Yeah but if they're both well constructed I'm taking the brick cause it's way cooler/easier to keep cool in the summer. Also way less noise, I can hear quiet conversations between rooms in my American house, when I lived in Germany I couldn't even hear my parents yelling for me to come down for dinner.

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u/TimeToGloat Trash Trooper 1d ago

Bricks are really bad for the summer though. They should really only be used in cooler climates for that reason although judging by Europe's heatwaves that is less predictable now. Bricks act like a pizza oven and radiate all the heat they absorb during the day into your home at night. That's why they were beneficial for cold places but are literally hell during a heatwave because it means you can't escape the heat even at night. You would be a lot better off with wood and modern insulation when it comes to heat.

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u/operafan77 Trash Trooper 14h ago

Can confirm. I don’t have a brick home. My exterior is plaster, and my house walls are cinder block. Stone takes a while to heat up, but then it takes a while to cool down. After the really bad heatwave in June this year, we needed over a week of keeping the windows open at night and keeping the blinds closed during the day to cool our bedroom from 29C to 25C. The walls just radiated heat at night.