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In my country houses are built with concrete, much easier with wood.
by gerardnll 9y ago
In my country houses are built with concrete, much easier with wood.
- nmeofthestate 9y agoIt's possibly a function of cost of labour and climate.
- gerardnll 9y agoAFAIK houses in USA are built with wood. And that's why they are easily destroyed with bad weather. I don't know if concrete it's generally more expensive than wood, but anyway, it's incredible how expensive were homes before the crisis and how 'cheap' they look.
- nmeofthestate 9y agoBuilding houses with concrete is quite a skilled job involving a lot of labour putting together the custom forms. I suspect in higher wage countries it becomes more prohibitive as a building method. Certainly it's very rarely used in the UK for residential building. Timber lends itself well to building insulated structures. I guess nothing is stopping people building a bunker if they're worried about building something tornado-resistant and they dont mind spending more.
- ghaff 9y agoYet I live in a wood house in a fairly harsh climate--New England--that's over 200 years old, which is not at all uncommon in this area. I love that, when practices are different from where they live, people automatically gravitate to "they're obviously idiots" as the explanation.
- Amezarak 9y ago> And that's why they are easily destroyed with bad weather. This is not the case: houses are not "easily destroyed with bad weather." Unless you sustain a direct hit from a tornado or are flooded by a hurricane's storm surge or other rising waters, your house is extremely unlikely to be destroyed by weather. There are few construction methods that can reliably withstand either event, and even if you do, if you get flooded, you have to tear out the entire inside of the house anyway regardless - even a storm surge does not usually completely destroy a house, it just has to be torn apart due to the flooding.