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Yes, Americans build everything of wood, rather than cement or bricks, like in the civilized world. Remember the tale about 3 little pigs? After 50-70 years it
by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago
Yes, Americans build everything of wood, rather than cement or bricks, like in the civilized world. Remember the tale about 3 little pigs? After 50-70 years it falls apart and needs to be teared down.
- fsckboy 4y agoAmericans use wood because they have wood, it's an excellent building material. The parts of the world where they don't use wood, it's because they don't have wood, they've used it all up. America is covered in forests, Canada even more.
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y agoThe cost of the frame today is a very low percentage of the total house cost, the issue is more cultural: that there are few people in America who know how to build from any other material, there are few cement or brick factories etc.
- fsckboy 4y agonothing you pointed out makes wood less of a great building material in comparison
- ghaff 4y agoSo someone who gets their construction knowledge from a children's fable confidently asserts that an entire country, really an entire continent, just doesn't know how to properly build houses.