First I didn’t understand, then it came to me Americans build their houses out of wood lol
Wait where are you for wooden houses not to be a thing?
Most of Europe nearly ran out of wood over 500 years ago. Why do you think they were so eager to deforest North America? Their sailing ships weren’t gonna get made out of bricks, and coal wasn’t a big hit yet.
In almost the entire world.
Wood houses exist, they are just rare.
AFAIK most places in Europe use brick, at least the UK does
Northern Europe did and does.
I live in northern Europe in a very wooden house
…with house salad?
But like, what’s the structure of the house made out of? I can’t imagine the structural bits can be made out of bricks?
what’s the structure of the house made out of?
Reinforced concrete. It’s cheap to create, the materials are quite cheap, it’s very strong, and you can make it have any shape.
I never understood why the US makes strctural bits out of wood. I can understand using it on the walls, but it’s completely unfit for the structure.
I’d bet most people here claiming their houses are made of bricks have a reinforced concrete structure hidden inside brick molds on the corners.
We have a lot of wood.
It’s not completely unfit for structures at all, else we wouldn’t use it.
concrete is terribly bad for the environment as it turns out.
What makes wood unfit for structure? I don’t know much about buildings, but it looks pretty strong and flexible to me?
Nothing.
This person is kinda saying nonsense.
Wood is perfectly sound for structural building.
There are wooden temples in Japan dating back to the 6th(7th?) century.
A stone structure would have been shook apart by now.
Different materials have different use cases.
it looks pretty strong and flexible
Compared to steel? I would recommend you check your eyesight.
It’s also labor intensive, and has plenty of durability problems. Also, worst of all, there is a huge amount of problems that can weaken it but are completely invisible once you finish your walls. Problems that happen often, because of that labor intensity.
Well i mean we’re talking houses here, not record-breaking high-rise buildings.
As for issues with structural wood… Tbh they’re pretty rare. Probably more common than, say, the steel in your walls rusting or something, but still, not to a worrisome degree.
The main one is insects. Water (leading to mould) is also a thing but water infiltrations are terrible news no matter the material so…
From South America. Our homes are brick and concrete, with a steel structure made of thick wires. If you’ve seen a mall being built, that, but smaller. Allows you to build up, while being resistant to earthquakes
Why not? Pretty much everything except the roof structure is made of bricks. My house is entirely bricks; an outer and an inner wall separated by a gap with insulation, with a wooden skeleton for the roof secured to the brick walls. All interior walls are either made of bricks (the originals built with the house in the 60’s) or aerated concrete blocks (added in a refurbishing later in the 00’s).
Have you ever built a house out of Legos? It’s just like that.
Yep. Can’t imagine a wooden house. It sounds flimsy and loud.
Brick does really badly in earthquakes, at least without major reinforcing. ‘Unreinforced masonry’ can be fatal pretty easily.
Brick veneer over timber framing can be a thing.
That’s a really good point I’ve not thought about as I’m lucky to live somewhere without that risk.
Lucky for Europe then that it’s not on major fault lines
Which is why stone construction was possible there
you wood if u could.
“Oh look, babe. They have fresh pine wood. How’s that sound?”
