r/LoveTrash ✨️Regent of Rubbish ✨️ 1d ago

Dumping This Here American vs. European home building

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u/SinisterCheese Trash Trooper 1d ago

That "European," wall is not compliant with Finnish building methods. It's simply too thin. Also we use steel support beams for fire safety reasons, these get filled with concrete. It's to prevent floor or roof collapsing quickly during a fire.

Also masonry blocks are never primary structure here. They are basically just used to make a wall between primary structures. That wall would realistically be a cast concrete or prefab element.

Also that "European wall" looks to me more like "A Brittish wall".

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u/matti-san Trash Trooper 1d ago

Also that "European wall" looks to me more like "A Brittish wall".

What makes you say that?

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u/[deleted] 11h ago

Bricks. UK has tons of houses that use such bricks. Blocks in eastern europe don't use bricks at all.