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You seem to be suggesting that the US has vast swathes of well-built old houses, and agreeing that what's currently built is flimsy. Is that a correct reading?
by Arnt 5y ago
You seem to be suggesting that the US has vast swathes of well-built old houses, and agreeing that what's currently built is flimsy. Is that a correct reading? If so, do you have any opinion about why what's currently built is so flimsy? The flimsiness is even more puzzling if almost everyone (among both builders and buyers) has experience with solidly built houses.
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- refurb 5y agoThe swaths of well built, wood frame, old homes is just evidence that the author’s premise that wooden houses are intrinsically flimsy (defined as “dont last long”) is wrong. Wood houses can be well built or not well built. And I would argue that flimsy houses aren’t a recent phenomenon. As others pointed out, the crappy houses built 100 years ago were likely torn down. And why are flimsy houses built? My guess is mostly cost savings either intentionally (that’s all the buyer can afford) or surreptitiously (builder cuts corners to increase profit). And as I mentioned in another article you can have poorly built concrete buildings as well. It’s not that one is superior to the other overall, it’s all trade offs.