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Mostly I'm amused that Americans never got the end of the Three Little Pigs story and still build houses out of wood. I read once that buildings are the best t
by mavhc 11y ago
Mostly I'm amused that Americans never got the end of the Three Little Pigs story and still build houses out of wood.
I read once that buildings are the best thing to cheat on the construction of because each layer of underspecced materials is hidden by the next layer.
- cobweb 11y agoWood is a renewable and a carbon trap. On site, dirt is a good choice for a building material. You can also use it to bulk mass. You just need a digger and some grunt work. See building with rammed earth. I've a friend who has just added to his 17th century thatched cottage with like materials: oak timber frame, timber cladding and wattle and daub, which is dirt and wood/hay/hair. It's lovely and solid. Sadly planning officials insisted on an over the top concrete foundation that negated all his hard work with his sympathetic build. The wood is good!