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Any benefit of thick concrete walls other than weird flex? AFAIK modern building materials are better for environment, insulation, repairs, build time and cost
by dzhiurgis 2y ago
Any benefit of thick concrete walls other than weird flex?
AFAIK modern building materials are better for environment, insulation, repairs, build time and cost.
Source: dad was a builder and inspector for 50 years in eastern europe. I’ve grown up in german house from 1890. He’s helping to work on my “cardboard” house in NZ now. Big aspect of course is - houses are built to the local conditions and market, but he loathes block/concrete houses back home. They are being replaced by cardboard homes too.
- Numerlor 2y agoAlready having them in place without moving would be the main benefit
- rednafi 2y agoThermal insulation is usually better in concrete apartments. Also, when I was working in the US, the places I lived were mostly "cardboard" houses by default. In Germany, I don't have much choice. So in my case, it's not even weird flex.
- gruez 2y ago"cardboard" houses have insulation in the walls. Meanwhile I can't imagine how solid (?) concrete would have better insulating properties than fiberglass insulation sandwiched between two "cardboard" walls.
- Spivak 2y agoAnd I'm not entirely sure what part of the house they're calling cardboard. It's typically concrete foundation, wood framing, and drywall (i.e. gypsum i.e. stone) walls. Drywall doesn't deserve the hate, it's fantastic. Flame resistant, cheap to repair and replace, easy to cut and penetrate to install drops run wires. Wiring my whole house with ethernet was a single day affair because of it.
- rangestransform 2y agoSound insulation, I can’t trust builders these days to put enough insulation between apartments in mass timber buildings
- dzhiurgis 2y agoThen you shouldn't be trusting them build concrete house either lol.