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What do you build your houses from?

ManuelKiessling 4y ago
In Germany, it’s mostly stonework or concrete. Wooden houses are a thing, but still quite exotic. Wood is used for the roof, though.
danpalmer 4y ago
Probably brick and/or concrete. In the UK and much of Europe houses are mostly made from brick. I believe the same is true in large parts of South America, Asia, Africa.
- prepend 4y ago
  There’s no drywall inside the house? That’s interesting. What’s on the inside of the brick?
  - ssl232 4y ago
    There is. In the UK it's typically called plasterboard. I think the original commenter was trying to make the point that bricks are almost exclusively used for the outside, whereas in the US it seems to depend on the location. I've seen lots of brick houses on the East Coast but in the Midwest it seems a lot of houses are wooden on the outside.
    - krallja 4y ago
      Even brick houses in the US are decorative brick veneer - the actual frame is almost always wood or metal.
  - vanviegen 4y ago
    Outer walls generally consist of a layer of cheap bricks or concrete on the inside (made flat with stucco), nice looking bricks on the outside, with isolation foam in the middle. Load bearing inner walls consist of cheap bricks or concrete. Other inner walls are usually gypsum.
    - KptMarchewa 4y ago
      Not only load bearing walls, but also walls between apartments.
  - jimbojambo123 4y ago
    Standard is plaster applied directly to bricks / blocks for external walls and then plasterboard used for internal walls. Increasingly plasterboard is used for all walls.
  - jjav 4y ago
    No drywall anywhere. I'd never seen drywall before being in the US. The inside wall is concrete, same as outside.
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- scotuswroteus 4y ago
  So you'd be living in stoves if wildfires hit you like they're gonna hit here over the next fifty years
ajsnigrutin 4y ago
Bricks, concrete, depends on the era when the building was built (i'm talking about single houses). For apartment buildings, most built during the socialist era, reinforced concrete was used everywhere, even for internal walls, so drilling between rooms to pull an ethernet cable through was a pain in the ass.

In Germany, it’s mostly stonework or concrete. Wooden houses are a thing, but still quite exotic. Wood is used for the roof, though.

danpalmer 4y ago

Probably brick and/or concrete. In the UK and much of Europe houses are mostly made from brick. I believe the same is true in large parts of South America, Asia, Africa.

prepend 4y ago
There’s no drywall inside the house? That’s interesting. What’s on the inside of the brick?
- ssl232 4y ago
  There is. In the UK it's typically called plasterboard. I think the original commenter was trying to make the point that bricks are almost exclusively used for the outside, whereas in the US it seems to depend on the location. I've seen lots of brick houses on the East Coast but in the Midwest it seems a lot of houses are wooden on the outside.
  - krallja 4y ago
    Even brick houses in the US are decorative brick veneer - the actual frame is almost always wood or metal.
- vanviegen 4y ago
  Outer walls generally consist of a layer of cheap bricks or concrete on the inside (made flat with stucco), nice looking bricks on the outside, with isolation foam in the middle. Load bearing inner walls consist of cheap bricks or concrete. Other inner walls are usually gypsum.
  - KptMarchewa 4y ago
    Not only load bearing walls, but also walls between apartments.
- jimbojambo123 4y ago
  Standard is plaster applied directly to bricks / blocks for external walls and then plasterboard used for internal walls. Increasingly plasterboard is used for all walls.
- jjav 4y ago
  No drywall anywhere. I'd never seen drywall before being in the US. The inside wall is concrete, same as outside.
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scotuswroteus 4y ago
So you'd be living in stoves if wildfires hit you like they're gonna hit here over the next fifty years

ajsnigrutin 4y ago

Bricks, concrete, depends on the era when the building was built (i'm talking about single houses). For apartment buildings, most built during the socialist era, reinforced concrete was used everywhere, even for internal walls, so drilling between rooms to pull an ethernet cable through was a pain in the ass.