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Electricity, water, telecoms, sewage comes in underground (and I instructed builder few years back to bury them deep against cold) My house was all build using
by dcc1 13y ago
Electricity, water, telecoms, sewage comes in underground (and I instructed builder few years back to bury them deep against cold)
My house was all build using concrete block with only the roof and interior flooring made of wood,
This winter we had some crazy gales here with gusts up to 100 miles+/hour no issues :)
I would not feel comfortable with too much wood in homes around here due to the extremely wet and damp climate on the west side of Ireland, house is airtight and well insulated with heat recovery system and solar water heaters
- maxerickson 13y agoIf the structure is airtight the damp won't really be getting at the wood. There's people talking about "the best wood houses lasting 100 years" somewhere in this thread, but I've seen lots of 50 year old wooden houses where the structure hasn't really started to age (but I've not spent much time in termite country). Even the cheap fast growing pine used for dimensional lumber these days is a pretty impressive material.