>friend tells me americans build houses out of paper and toothpicks then pay half a million dollars for them>obviously he's joking, have a laugh>look it up later>it's realDo you "people" seriously do this? Use flimsy twigs and literal fucking paper to build your dwellings?
They're building an HOA subdivision near where I work, it's all OSB and foil foam board, lol
>>2964764Do Americans know that bricks and concrete exist?
>>2964769Sure. That half million you need to spend on a house just turned into 1.5 million. You're welcome.
>>2964759>pay half a million dollars for themthen pay 6% interest and 10% of the cost for insurance and 3% of the value in property tax
>>2964790forgot my pic
>>2964769Americans outsource building houses to the lowest bidder.
>>2964781you got scammed and fell for it, you are welcome
>>2964781Don’t worry, we have a plan to fix it.It’s called the 50 year mortgage.I think, though, the houses won’t last 50 years.
>>2964843that's okay, because you have guns, and if the state tries to tread on you, you will use them for greater justice or so i was told
>>2964799Last based american.
These are structural load bearing walls of my house, every wall is minimal 10 cm steel reinforced concrete.
>>2964966This whas the form when they were pooring. Also the foundation is prefabricated concrete modules.
>>2964968After the concrete they added 10 cm of insulation, a small airgap and then a layer of bricks as the outside walls (these are non load bearing, but actual proper bricks not fake thin shit just for show). This is in the Netherlands by the way, built in 2004. Lately the building quality deteriorated due to high material costs etc.
>>2964957If the state tries to tread on the people, the other people will cheer them on.
any moron can overbuild like a caveman but it takes brains to build with the exact amount of durability and strength needed for the purpose
>>2965077>the purposeaka "stand up long enough that we can sell the house"
>>2965090don't you people househop anyway
>>2964759Correction: Japan does (or at least did) wood and paper houses, Americans moved on to wood and styrofoam. They also usually get covered in a thin slop stone veneer (drywall, stucco, faux stone or brick cladding) to make them feel solid and to pretend they used better construction methods. Those will last for decades with reasonable upkeep, which is long enough to pay off the mortgage or get obliterated by an earthquake, wildfire, tornado, or flood. If that happens they get rebuilt with an equally temporary building because that's all the insurance will cover (if you're lucky). People with enough money to have a home custom designed still mostly go the same route because as >>2964781 said, higher quality means higher cost. It's simply quicker, easier, uses less material, and is certified Good Enough. Few people are worried about what their place will look like after the few decades max they'll spend in it before moving or dying. The country as a whole specced into this method mid last century because the plywood industry got huge during WWII. The war ended but those plants didn't shut down, so there was a yuge surplus of cheap domestic building materials and wouldn't you know it people were safe and happy and fucking like mad and needed a lot of new houses on the quick. Homes from that era are still around, roofs replaced, hopefully wiring updated, maybe even asbestos free after one of the times it was remodeled. Not really a big deal. A well kept 50s/60s home is better than your average new build because later homes have more corners cut. Thinner plywood, lighter and greener framing, more foam, but still (generally) functional as dwellings. >>2964966What's the cost and size of your place? Looks nice.
>>2964759i mean sure i'd love a brick house but the cost is like 10x. meanwhile the house i grew up in is probably like 60 or 70 years old now minimum and was one of the most poorly designed houses in the area and yet it survived this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late-May_1998_tornado_outbreak_and_derecho just fine with no damage and that shit knocked over a decades old maple tree we had in the front yardit really comes down to what the actual environmental threats are in your area. in west michigan it's basically floods and storms and these sorts of houses survive those just fine. now if i was in california where the threats include earthquakes and fires, well the materials used here probably wouldn't hold up as well.
>>2965839small floods rather, we don't usually get severe flooding around here
>>2964759>beautiful Yurop concrete homes
>>2965990Cozy desu. Imagine all the mates you make growing up, also there's a park or football field nearby 80% of the time.
>>2965990they are not made to be beautiful, but to last forevermeanwhile your origami house folds in half every 2 years from termites, mold, rain or fog and costs half a million plus tip to rebuild
>>2964971>This is in the NetherlandsI could tell from the first few pics fren.>built in 2004Good job getting in early. If I want to buy a half decent house (read: shit rijtjeshuis far away from work) I need 600k+ eurogulden, and I can only borrow 300k. I have no debts and a lot of savings, but still not enough. Prices increase faster than I can save. Basically what it comes down to is that I want to kill myself, onironisch.Of course, buidling my own home isn't an option in this fucking hell hole.
>>2966453>they are not made to be beautifulobv>but to last foreverYea gotta keep those 600sq.ft. apartments intact through all the muzzie car bombings.Also I’m a burger and my house is masonry because we’re reasonable and we build houses for the weather they’re expected to withstand in a given person’s lifespan.
>>2968000Why is britain going full goy? What happened to the anglo spirit?
>>2968000>build your house out of rodent beddingI am sure this will end well.
>>2964966commie block house.
>>2964759Poor people houses are made that way. It just so happens that these houses cost a fuckton. They can't be made cheaper than this because land prices are insane. When I bought my house the land was 2/3rds of the value of the place. They pack these homes in like they are getting ready to make veal too. The minimum legally required setbacks between homes and often times less back yard than the picture.Meanwhile, poor people houses in Europe used to be made out of literal sticks and shit.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZn_F53BR1khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mdoIeDNwyw
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>>2968000>toss fag on ground>entire flat bursts into flames
>>2964759anon thats the japanese. americans build them out of cake
i've been thinking about this recently since i'm looking to move out bush and possibly build something better.i studied construction some 18 years ago and then went into a different field. We were only really taught about brick veneer with steel or wooden frames as it's the standard for half of Aus.Anyone got examples of some cross sections that are actually well insulating, especially for hot/humid environments?
