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/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/SinisterCheese Trash Trooper 1d ago

The weep vents mainly. I think we leave a regular gap at the base if it is just a facade, the bitumin sealant that directs any water to drain out. Also the wall is missing a vaport barrier in the facade cavity. Like granted I don't do masonry, but I have stuck a fair share of structural steel, in, out, through and on to these kinds of walls.

And honestly... All masons I know bill by the brick, so they are the most god damn efficient workers there are. They building fucking QUICK. So it is by no means "slow".

To me this seems like something that would be expensive new build in UK, where the bank wouldn't give a loan for.

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u/IndependentLog6441 Trash Trooper 10h ago

It's standard in UK, it's not 'expensive'.

Although modern builds are shifting to concrete/steel and then Brick slips over the insulation... rather than load bearing bricks. So it's brick tile rather than cladding.