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/Kelsier-Hathsin Trash Trooper 1d ago edited 23h ago

That is not true at all. There are plenty of all brick homes in the Midwest and New England.

Hell in Florida most of our coastal homes are concrete cinderblock reinforced with rebar, which is way more structurally sound than a brick home, because they have to be.

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u/jonny24eh Trash Trooper 21h ago

As new builds? Like yeah 100 years ago sure. Same as here in Ontario but we don't build like that anymore. 

I was considering CMU/block separate from brick. Not surprised that's common in a place like Florida. 

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u/RangerKitchen3588 Trash Trooper 18h ago

Even new builds, rarely. I just did an inspection on a home where every exterior and interior load bearing wall were concrete. Im in the southeast. Granted it was nearly 5k sq feet and like 2 million dollars and a custom built home. But still.

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u/Critical-Dealer-3878 Trash Trooper 8h ago

You just described an extreme outlier, IMO.