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The sound insulation inside US houses is also terrible. Maybe people wouldn't need so much space if they had some decent sound insulation between rooms. Other
by amalag 14y ago
The sound insulation inside US houses is also terrible. Maybe people wouldn't need so much space if they had some decent sound insulation between rooms. Otherwise it is the simple case of having a better house than your acquaintances and thinking of the extra space as an "investment".
- sliverstorm 14y agoOf course, that wouldn't be a problem if more houses were still built with stuff like brick, clay, daub, or even logs- but any more, that's seen as low-class. As time goes by though, the more I begin to wonder if I wouldn't prefer a brick house, if only for the old-fashioned appearance and thermal buffering.
- debacle 14y agoThere's nothing like brick to keep a house cool in the summer time.
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- adestefan 14y agoI've never heard anyone calling those materials low class. The reason they are not used is because it takes significant skill to build with those products which makes the resulting house very expensive.
- briandear 14y agoGeneralize much? The build quality in the US exceeds China and Korea in almost every possible way. Every been to China? The walls of most new construction homes in Shanghai are made of cinder block or poured concrete. Terrible sound insulation as well as horrendous thermal insulation. Increased home sizes would be hard to connect statistically to the reduction in sound insulation. Those two factors are not correlated at all. Many older homes have terrible sound insulation. In fact, older apartment buildings specifically are often terrible compared to new construction when it comes to insulation (both thermal and auditory.)
- amalag 14y agoCinder block and concrete are worse sound and thermal insulation than a layer of gypsum? Really?