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The UK has wattle and daub wood frame houses that are 500 years old, too. The hatred for wood frame houses in the UK and Ireland is a strange thing, especially
by CalRobert 5y ago
The UK has wattle and daub wood frame houses that are 500 years old, too. The hatred for wood frame houses in the UK and Ireland is a strange thing, especially considering the pyrite scandal a few years back, the mica one now, and the hideous carbon footprint of concrete.
There are a few people fighting this, https://gracedesign.ie/ https://gracedesign.ie/ makes stunning beautiful house frames, and I'm having my own house built in wood right now. By coincidence, so are the people in the field next to me. But there's decades of prejudice to overcome.
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoThe hatred for wood frame houses in the UK and Ireland is a strange thing It's not when you consider that we cut down most of our trees.
- CalRobert 5y agoWell, cut down, and grazed the rest to oblivion to turn the islands in to meat factories.
- robertlagrant 5y ago13.1% of UK as woodland in 2018; 4.7% in 1905. Not too shabby! https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and-resources/statistics/forestry-statistics/forestry-statistics-2018/woodland-areas-and-planting/woodland-area/area-of-woodland-changes-over-time/ https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and-resources/statis...
- FridayoLeary 5y agoDoor and window frames are the only wooden element in most houses. You can instantly see if they have never been replaced, and after 70 - 80 years they look quite old. Now imagine the whole house looking like that.
- CalRobert 5y agoTo each their own; I live in a town full of cracked, heavily-stained plastered and pebble dashed block buildings that look pretty terrible.