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The beauty of stick-build houses is that they are easily modifiable. Move a wall. Build an extension. Move the plumbing. Add new fiber runs. All very incrementa
by majormajor 4y ago
The beauty of stick-build houses is that they are easily modifiable. Move a wall. Build an extension. Move the plumbing. Add new fiber runs. All very incremental, marginal-cost work.
I'm very curious about your statement about insulation leading to faster fires, though. Like you say, codes tend to move very conservatively - are these new insulative house wrap products and such not getting fire tested as part of their approval?
- dylan604 4y agoHow to spot an HNer in a home construction conversation: Add new fiber runs.
- bluGill 4y agoThere are competing concerns ever since the 1970s energy crisis insulation has been required. The people doing that often didn't talk to the health and safety guys. Some insulation doesn't burn, but some burns fast. Some safe while others are toxic. We discover issues and adjust code to fix it. Them Someone discovers something new and it looks great until years later we discover something we didn't know and codes have to adjust to something we didn't know.
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoStick built is also more flexibility in terms of timetable. The roofers, can be on site before the framers are done. The electricians and plumbers show up right as the framers wrap up their work and before the roofers are done. Or they can wait a week because as long as they gets done before drywall nobody cares. Insulation can happen concurrent with plumbing and electrical or after. When you consider that all these parties have N jobs that need doing this added flexibility to show up early or late in the process helps a lot. Concrete is somewhat flexible but isn't that flexible in terms of timetable of all the steps.