You guys have a history of building castles with hidden passages in the walls. Every culture has that. And in America a normal human can't fit in the gaps in the wall. This is a rich person problem, not a cultural problem. Edit: Americans are not scared of things hiding in our walls any more than any other country. Ignore that we have gaps in our walls. That has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS HORROR TROPE. Germans make movies of people hiding in walls too. It's not an American exclusive thing. That is a misconception.
Why is my Nana's house in Tucson AZ at Pueblo gardens made of brick... And all the other houses are too in the neighborhood. I think the neighborhood was built in the 50s.
@@justinV.-yd1fb because shitboxes are a relatively new thing in America, we used to understand that a home should be built to last but now its just about churning out the cheapest house possible
@graylincard6971 came here to say this, too. We're all just cornbred fed thick boy's that can punch through concrete whenever the need arises..... anymore questions
Depends. My home is block and stucco. The walls on the inside of my house are not drywall believe it or not. It's a pain in the ass to hang stuff on them. 😅
Some of our older American homes are not so poorly constructed. But the newer homes here are called (in MANY places not all) "cookie cutter homes". You go into a neighborhood and pick out your home design from 4 or 5 different house plans. They build your home quickly and poorly and you spend the rest of your life paying 20x the value of it to the bank.
Sorry. I don't want a house that will last centuries. That is expensive, and not worth it to me. I want a house that will last for as long as I will be in it. I also don't like old houses. Bugs/rodents break their way in. Things break. They get outdated. Like my friend in Belgium is always complaining about his 220 year old home. Lack of central air. Lack of electrical outlets. Hard to get similar replacement parts(lol). Also the plumbing design is out dated AF, and will cost a fortune to repair. He wants to modernize it, but it would cost so damn much. Like half the price of a new home. The thing is... Technology and home design is constantly evolving. I'd rather have a house that lasts just long enough. I'd much rather live in a well built new home that takes advantage of technology. Then deal with an 30-500 year old home. With that said. Screw the houses that guy inspects, and regulations for insulation need to change. Edit - I get it. You have a old house that you are proud of having to deal with. If I wanted to fix things I would be a maintenence man. I've got better things to do than fix a rickety old home. Europeans - Who are you to talk? Many of your homes don't have window screens, and you have laundry machines in your kitchen or some other random place. Also lacking central air or even AC in some places! Alright I am ignoring this thread. I said my piece. Peace!
@@waitwhat....2473 I live in Germany. We don't have air-conditioning except for grocery stores and maybe a few offices. During summer you learn to put down the window "screens" (Rolläden) which block out the sun completely and then only air out the rooms from time to time. That way the house usually stays so cool you need a cardigan inside and shorts outside. When we heat we usually heat the central part of the house which we spend the most time in. No point in heating up every bedroom when we're sleeping with the window open no matter what temperature it is. The doors to rooms that don't need heating just stay closed. A lot of houses still have wood stoves but I don't know if it's necessarily cheaper than gas. Newer houses usually come with floor heating and most houses have tiles everywhere that also help keep cool during summer. I'm an idiot and got myself an apartment in which my bedroom is right under the roof and it does get hot. I got myself sun block foil for the windows which has helped a lot, as there's not screen on my triangle bedroom window.
In the Philippines, houses are made of plastered reinforced concrete and concrete hollow blocks. Typhoons are rampant here so concrete is preferred to protect us from strong winds and rain. It also last a lifetime. Low income households use wood, bamboo and plywood. We also use drywall inside if we want to reduce cost or space flexibility is to be considered. But generally, most of the time we prefer the composite of reinforced concrete and CHB. As long as you follow the Building Code your house can withstand category 5 typhoons and magnitude 8.4 earthquakes.
Ha! It turns out it works?) Many Europeans wonder why Americans build "cardboard" houses if even a small tornado destroys them. And they argue that concrete houses will also collapse, but it's much harder to rebuild than wooden ones) So it turns out that a concrete house can withstand a typhoon?)
@@mmiro Yes, it works and more cost effective since we experience an average of 20 typhoons and 800 earthquakes per year. It will be more costly to build a house made of light materials like wood or paper every year. Even some 1-storey 30 sqm residential building are made with reinforced concrete. Our Building Codes are also created to guide us how to build houses, like the radius of the steel reinforcement and thickness of the concrete wall that can withstand category 5 typhoons and magnitude 8.4 earthquakes.
@@baardagaamTyphoons, cyclones, hurricanes. they're all the same phenomena, just on different parts of the world. also the strongest storm in recorded history was ST haiyan, katrina and sandy pales in comparison. strong concrete houses hit by the eye remained standing, minus the roof doors and windows, some were rebuilt with what available materials was left. couldn't say the same if it was made with sticks and high density paper.
Once I saw a reality show named Jersey Shore(?) and they went to Italy for vacation. One of the guests used to smash his head in the wall and make a hole when he was mad, he attempted to make the same in Italy and got a concussion lol. He said he forgot he was in Europe lol 🤕💫
I live in Canada. Our building codes make for expensive houses too. Lots of insulation and structural strength for exterior walls and especially our roofs. But the interior ones are like in the USA. Our homes have to support TONS of snow, and an 80 degree celsius differential between summer and winter.
@@Jtstien We also have amenities. The internet is at most places ok, it is expanding and is and will be better in the future. We also have big TVs - just buy one in the store or online. We also have multiple things comparable to Doordash. With e.g. better health care, Germany is just better than the US. Also, our houses don‘t fly away in a storm that easily. And our cities/towns are walkable and easily accessible with bikes and public transport.
American walls are made of our me st abundant resources: wood. Germany has a minimal forest resource for providing lumber, so the German wall has to be made of their more abundant resources: stone and clay/mud for brick. Germans love American homes for their spacious
That is actually crazy! I was watching all the horrible destruction from Helene in NC, and saw a house just split in two. I did not understand how that was possible. Our home is so solid, nothing breaks it in two. The roof might fly off, we get bad storms in the Faroe Islands, but the house is going nowhere. Also, prayers for all the poor people going through the disaster right now💙
@@ronblack7870 Our house is built on solid rock and concrete foundations, then brick, I think the walls might break, but I doubt the house would move. We have had mudslides here (Faroe Islands) and that is what happened. Houses got mudslide running through it, but the house itself stayed put😊
I think something to add here is actually NC or other areas devastated by Helene get hit by tropical storms often. Also prior to Helene I know NC got a lot of rainfall and most of the ground is actually Red Clay. Clay is a poor absorber of water, so a wet September + a tropical storm on top of an area that is mountains and valleys led to a lot of flooding. It's very uncommon, the last great flood was in 1916 and from what I have read, there hasn't been a flood as bad prior to 1916. The Carolina's do not experience floods and landslides of that magnitude. Could housing permits change due to weather, if such an experience is more common? Absolutely, but until then the "wood" houses have done just fine for many generations because the risk of an actual disaster of that was not even a concept to most. (Also wood is cheaper in the US and the south is very poor)
@@jaandeleon4204i lived in New Jersey ~10 years ago and none of the houses in the neighborhood were built with stones and concrete. Even the expensive ones who looked like they were made out of stone, were actually made out of paper and only had stones GLUED on to look sturdy. Faux stone / stone veneer isn’t that uncommon
Well, in tornado prone areas it's important the house is as light as possible. Thick sturdy brick walls form a way deadlier debris than some plasterboard that shreds. Because in a tornado, the house is gonna go, whatever it's made of. Unless it's 3 ft thick reinforced en deeply founded concrete, in other words a bunker.
My American house is made from stone, metal, real wood, and glass. I built it myself. No drywall. Swedish framed interior walls capped with PT plywood and cabinet grade Birch (combined for 1.5” of solid sheathing). Hurricane strapped. Bolted to concrete. Metal roof. First floor waterproofed with Schluter.
@@johnrutherford2326 I never built a house before, so I started researching in 2009. All the information was available online. I made many mistakes along the way (and wasted a lot of money), but the end result is worth it. I wish more Americans were able to enjoy the privileges of homesteading, but our screen time takes away from this. We begin to limit our goals to get by instead of getting ahead. They said I could not curve my metal roof or cantilever the foundation. I built both above code requirements & now my curved metal roof resists wind better than if it were flat. You can do more than you know. Aim for unachievable and discover your hidden potential. You can do it too and maybe better than “average”.
german here. when I was younger, my cousin punched the wall because he was angry at his mom for not allowing him to stay over night. He saw kids do it in the US movies where they punched a hole in the wall. We went to the hospital - he broke his hand as well as his arm.
In Argentina, houses are also made of brick and cement. They are very solid. If you ask an architect to make you one in the American style, with those materials, he will surely laugh in your face.
@@phillipmiller3819 You've never been to Carlsbad and Escondido, CA, I take it. The "Danish" cafés were crawling with old Nazis as late as 2000 or so (with the radio playing 'Lili Marlene' and all), and the antique stores look like Nazi museums.
@@granlago2235i think it has more to do with the bricks baking in the sun and then radiating heat into the house. American walls are fine because air is a great insulator. The sun can bake the outer wall, then the outer wall has to radiate heat into the air, then that air has to heat up the interior wall, and finally the interior wall starts to radiate heat into the house.
Mexican and German walls are the same. When I first saw houses being built in the US I was so puzzled why they would use “little sticks and panels” to build houses and buildings. I really wondered how they support any weight at all. It still makes me wonder! Haha. I still call it that, “they are building our home with little sticks!” 😆
Italian here. I remember when in the show Geordie Shore one guy used to knock his own head against the walls every time he got angry to be dramatic. Then they filmed a season in Italy, the first time he did it he got hospitalized. Edit: it was Jersey shore
As a Pole I remember when my dad broke a drill trying to make a hole in the wall, I was sitting in my room and just heard him swearing and then laughing like a gremlin when he came up to me and showed me the broken drill saying, that if Hitler reincarnated today and nuked this village the house wouldn't even flinch and this is my favourite thing istg xDD
As a German I find this hilarious and relatable. I can clearly see your father randomly swearing at this wall rn because this same thing happened to me once😂
ur dad is all fun n games lol. A week ago I had hard time drillin 2 holes through a tile with a bit without carbide tip... I was done after half an hour and sharpening the bit like 5 time because it was overheating as hell and all red. But as a traditional Pole i chose that torment over going to hardware store to get a right one
I was coming here to say what no concrete block under the stucco. Boy we are much better off here. Stucko sprayed onto chickenwire with paper backing thats insane
Coming from Brazil, is hard to adapt to US building standards, feels like it gonna break. And I lived in Florida as well, even though first floor was CBS, second floor was all like a dollhouse.
My childhood home (which my parents built by hand) has 10 inch thick adobe walls. I grew up in New Mexico USA. When I told my classmates about it during discussion of pueblo style homes they asked if we had dirt floors 😂 (we had all of the modern comforts) This type of construction was common 100s of years ago in this area, but modern construction is much like what the Arizona guy showed. However, on the exterior I thought it was common to have at least waferboard/OSB behind the stucco. It wouldn't be easy to push a nail into with your thumb. New construction keeps getting worse and worse.
Yep I would rather my house fly away then have a bunch of bricks fall on me and we build them the way we do mainly for the hot weather if we lived in 100% brickhousing we'd all die of heat strocks
As a Mexican, I never understood how hurricanes and tornados could sweep houses away. Our houses are made of brick and cement. Had to learn US houses actually have WOOD in them.
@@timmotz2827i know it's about convenience but I'm in Paraguay, a third world country full o trees and i never saw a wooden house, everything is bricks and cement around here
@@georgoroth Spanish influence from the colonial period, perhaps? The US was settled at first mainly by immigrants from Britain, where there was a long tradition of building with wood (although timber-framed rather than stick built). It also depends on what kinds of trees you have. In North America, a lot of the forests are conifers-pine, spruce, etc. They grow straight and tall and particularly in the 19th century with old growth forests, they were pretty free of branches for most of their height. Today, conifers in managed forests have the advantage of growing fairly quickly. So it’s a renewable resource that is easy to build with.
A brick and cement house would also get blown away by a hurricane or a tornado. The us gets a lot of winds and brick and concrete will fracture, so we use wood and steel.
@@HelpW4ntedhey, I hate to be that guy, but most drywall, brand name "sheetrock" is made of gypsum. It's the same stuff high quality paper is made from. While it is a mined material, gypsum is mostly used for paper. Sadly, that is why we have such bad mold problems here in the good ole USA.
I'm currently living in the first floor of a portuguese house build back in the 70's. I swear my exterior walls are around 50cm thick, made of stone. They are exposed for decor, but I'm sure the stone plays a major role keeping the house fresh and in a constant temperature. Also have very good quality triple glazed windows. The sun shines during the summer right on all sides of the house, but the house is always at a constant 21/22c which pretty comfortable.
Depends on the area you’re in in the US. There’s no point in building a house that costs a lot if your house is more likely to get destroyed in a natural disaster. Whether that be hurricanes, earthquakes, or tornados.
@@salrodriguez21 With brick houses, you can only lose your roof in a tornado. I've built my brick house last year (177 square metres, 107 sq/m of living space and 70 sq/m of basement), and I'm sure it would withstand 7 richters, easily. We don't have tornadoes here, but it would only take off my roof tiles. Beneath it I have 20cm of armed concrete that wouldn't move anywhere. So even after a tornado, I would just have to buy new roof tiles, instead of building an entire new house. And it cost me around 70.000€ to build. I'm just finishing my facade. And I've build it with my father in law and my father alone. Trust me, this is a bunker. Especially my basement. It's not going anywhere. My grandchildren will be able to live here. It's 5km away from the city, 350 meters of altitude, great air, great piece of land. I'm planning to grow my own food. After 34 years of living in the city center, I ran away to build a heaven for my children. I've spent my entire life savings, but it was worth it.
Construction is crap today.....older homes probably have a better chance at surviving than a paper one....oddly enough people will spend hard cash living in areas where their house can be blown away...but won't invest in making it stronger to prevent more damage....yup. Makes sense to me
@@jolemire2546 How long have you been livin in the US? We have things called microbursts that can be as powerful as bombs. We have tornadoes which throw trees through brick walls. There are also earth quakes where the modern building survives better than rigid cement/brick walls. Massive concreate buildings have to have special joints in them to let them have give so they do not break apart as easily.
Is this Exterior or Interior wall? Uk houses are block and brick outside but if you divide up the rooms inside say for a bathroom you just use wood to make a "stud work" frame and put plasterboard and plaster both sides
"This is a Brazilian wall, made of bricks, beams and concrete. Sometimes it can be made from concrete blocks as well. At least 10 cm thick. No, you can't break this wall by punching it, unless your bricklayer is the king of incompetence."
Most walls here in New Zealand are made from wooden frames and gib board with weather boards on the outside. Easy to insulate, lay cables, fix, punch through etc...😊
Yeah the walls are made of a material called drywall which is like a thick plywood, and it's reinforced with wood beams every 1-2 feet. There are brick houses and concrete buildings but those are usually older or apartments respectively. Most new houses are the drywall type, with a Tyvek and plastic weather wall exterior and roofs made of like, tar and tiles. Sometimes this weird asphalt paper shingles instead of tiles. In Cy's area Stucco is really popular for exterior walls as well because it is very dry, not so much on the east coast. But you can straight up punch through a wall as long as there isn't a wood stud behind it in America. The foundation is usually concrete though at least so if it burns down you can build a new house on top.
Easy to burn and lose your house in a tornado too 😊 Jokes aside, I was always so confused at how people lost their whole houses to fire in movies and tv shows. I was like: the worst fire's gonna do is burn through everything that is cloth and wood and maybe cause problems because of electrical, but no way you're losing your actual house. It's a huge loss, you'll have to replace everything inside, but you still have your walls and the structure of your house there
Even here in India houses are made of concrete. Growing up I used to be incredibly confused as to how in western media like movies and stuff people punched through the wall lmao. I thought you get that strong when you grow up that you punch through concrete.
@@mikeguerrero7416nope they suit the small wallet and the American dream for everyone to own a house. It is much more expensive to purchase or build a house in Germany. On the positive side a German house rarely flies away in a storm nor does it need to be rebuilt after 80 years of use.
Ive seen them use the white cardboard in texas on new homes. I cant believe they use sy h poor quality materials smh
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and that's why im so happy i live in Germany just over the border with the Netherlands and indeed housing quality is amazing here never ever hear anything much from my neighbours :) just because of proper isolation and HR+++ glass
I’m from Romania, our walls are also made of bricks and plaster, and I never understood why american walls break so easy especially when I was watching movies
Drywall is plaster though. Not sure why the exterior walls for that house are so thin a nail can go through them. I'm in the US and the walls are wood, coated in cement (stucco)
@@squirrelsinjacket1804 You went from what walls are made of to an anti-israel dogwhistle. While I also don't like Israel I must applaud the mental gymnastics employed here.
Du erzählst einen Schwachsinn. In Europa werden zu 90% Gebäudehüllen aus Beton gefertigt. Selbst Poroton Steine sind selten geworden. Es gibt hier keine Häuser aus Pappe, wie in den USA.
When I was a child I watched Mr. And Mrs. Smith. And in one scene they fell down the stairs and destroyed the wall. I was so confused and wondered which super hero's they must have been because when I fell against our wall the last time it didn't change or destroyed anything. Well, okay the blood stains gave the white wall a "colourful" touch. You just can't break a brick wall except you are Hulk 🤷♀️
All German new builds houses likely have internal plasterboard stud walls. The older houses are bricks and blocks internally but that is the same everywhere.
🇧🇷In Brazil, we build houses using bricks and concrete, while plasterboard walls are used only inside business buildings because it is easier to readapt the spaces.
Here in America we use the materials we do because it’s easier to customize and safer in natural disasters. Wood is a renewable resource as stone and brick are not. It’s better for the environment, more affordable and easy to transport. Brick and stone are prone to water damage and foundational issues. Most of our craftsmen of the past were Scandinavian as well so I think that may play a big part in it.
@faleilham8334 : but still not as thick as in Germany or in The Netherlands 😊 we have double bricks here. So it wouldn't be too cold in the winter and too warm in the summer 😊
@@CometnHoshi Tell me whats better for the environment: A house that lasts for several hundred years, or a house that has to be build new after several decades. Sustainability is the key factor when it comes to protecting the environment, because the more materials and energy you need in a certain period of time, the more the environment is burdened. That's also the reason why the US has by far the highest energy consumption per capita in the world. (And no, the Nordic countries do not count, as they get almost all their energy from renewable sources and have to heat much more due to the much colder climate.)
@@walther2492 A house that can withstand simple to moderate natural disasters. One that if it did fall, wouldn’t crush people to smithereens. One where cracks wouldn’t compromise the entire integrity of the home (lmfao) one that isn’t prone to trapped moisture and dampness, stone is TERRIBLE for insulation. I’m speaking for our climates here btw, however it does apply to many European places that do not have the same climate and are almost all wet, as opposed to here. We build what’s best for us and I think that’s the part many of y’all miss…greatly.
the construction reflects the environment it is built in, for instance here in Brazil we have brick walls (strong and cheap), spiked fences/electrical fences around the house and metal gates on the windows (for preventing assaults) and mosquitoes screen on the windows as well (to prevent a very specific flying insect lol) it's cool to see how the construction reflects the conditions around it, in colder regions there are hot gas tubes inside the walls, meanwhile greek houses used a type of paint that was a disinfectant against cholera in the 1930s, this paint was white and therefore greek houses look mostly white very cool
Bricks are not strong. There is a reason why any modern architect worth their salt doesn't use them and that's because they will break easily in an earthquake because stone is brittle (it cracks with enough stress). Flexible, but strong materials are preferred.
Exactly, we all use what resources are abundant but also what is appropriate. The USA is very big and has many different climates and frequent natural disasters which need different standards. For example super thick brick homes won't do well with strong earthquakes like they have on the west coast. But of course we have many brick homes on the east coast where it's colder and there are hurricanes. Not brick interior walls but brick all around the outside.
@@ExternalInputs True lots of sand. That is why we are called sandgropers but there are huge clay pits east of Perth in an area called Midland. You may have heard of midland bricks?
And this is little john's house's walls. It us made with eco friendly wood veneers and galvanized square steel all fastened with screws borrowed from his aunt and can last upto 10000 years
It makes me think of the Three Little Pigs. In Europe, the houses are made of bricks. In Texas, my state, they are made out of sticks. And apparently, in Arizona , they are made of straw.
Straw bale construction (not to be confused with how some fire risk houses used to be stuffed with hay, that rots or attracts insects) can be solid structurally, if done well. It's very hard to use legally in most places, as it's a form of trade art not reflected in most engineering standards, and so nearly impossible to design in ways qualifying for a building permit, CO, mortgage, or insurance, in most places with common building codes.
@@lokiva8540 there have been several projects of those houses in Germany as far as I know, even apartment houses several storeys high, made out of wood and insulated with straw. Still to be built they need to be up to code otherwise tje permits would never go through
@@ulhi7564 Straw bale construction has very thick walls, and uses densely packed bales, usually with some things like windows and doors framed with wood, and stucco and wet plaster outer and inner finishes, as the actual structural walls. They end up self-insulating. As we've seen in Cy's reports, not just visual grade #2 SPF or fir, but truss members with 1650-2400 MSR lumber, can be worthless when plates aren't installed right, or shipping or reckless framing damages it. But, they have nice blueprints, and legal certifications that used to be based on book tables and slide rules, these days on software fill in the blanks that engineers sign off on. Straw bales are an art and have no such criteria, and so all projects I'm aware of using them are rural, no mortgage, and in counties without strict building codes. Generally people using straw bales are working for their own homes, and learn enough to use that oddball method, after having sorted out where they can legally do so.... and so they're not likely to pull the kinds of truss damage seen on Cy's videos, but are conscientious.
Mostly because of the natural disasters. In Cali we used to have 10 ft block walls surrounding our property but a lot changed because of the big earthquake in 94 so code says no more than 6 ft now. I'm assuming everything else got updated too. I know we can't good carpet because apparently it's extremely flammable.
Surprisingly, older American houses were in fact made similarly to German (or European) ones. It was only relatively recently that they started being built with cheap stuff like drywall. In fact, you'll see that brick homes are far more common in the eastern US due to early settlers in the 17th-19th century (the west came later, and much more sparse). Pretty cool, and some of the towns are definitely worth a trip east.
Actually, most American houses of the 17th and 18th centuries are made of timber frames, wattle-and-daub infill, and sometimes a face of wood paneling. (Brick houses were only for the very wealthy.) In fact the was true of European house in the Middle Ages and Renaissance as well. Europeans turned to cement because they used up most of their virgin timber by 1700. And then, of course, they destroyed many old homes in one of their endless wars they enjoy so much.
Same in Korea, our apartments built in the 90's can double up as a temporary bunker/machine gun nest (yes some apt located in Seoul across the Han river were designed such with murder holes/machine gun nests in mind) but the one's built after 2020's are just Styrofoam buildings)
You build with what you have the most of, North America has more trees than rocks. And something tells me it's only such a percentage that German houses are built like this. I'd bet all newer commercial European buildings are built with steel or wood framing and drywall. It's purely a waste of space and a plumbing/electrical nightmare to have walls that thick
When I build in west Virginia, it's 2x6, with 5/8s drywall on all exterior walls. With a full brick facade. With non- formaldehyde insulation I install myself.
@@thefinalgrindolder insulations contain formaldehyde, which "off gasses" over time and is carcinogenic. Best to avoid living in a regular source of it.
It doesn’t make financial sense to build with reinforced concrete in the US, at least for a house, commercial buildings and apartments are often concrete though.
@@m0nkEz As far as I remember, The Venus Project developed a tornado safe house design. Round with a cone shaped roof. Whether it really works, I don't know.
As someone who's seen the aftermath of a brick school decimated after a tornado hit--I do NOT, ever, want to be in a house made of brick or concrete when a tornado hits. O.o The thought actually makes me feel bad in the stomach. I'll take a wood house made if paper and air with an underground shelter any day.
I live in a tornado prone area in the US and our walls have to be brick and/or concrete. The interior walls are the thin drywall, which makes hanging art and changing house layout cheap and efficient. Drywall isn't as flimsy as it sounds here! It's just less resistant to punctures than large pressures and is very brittle.
Drywall is fire retardant, that’s the main reason why it is used. I would highly doubt that any building these days unless it’s a historical structure is being structurally supported by brick. Brick exteriors are typically one layer thick and anchored to the frame of the building; it somewhat protects the outside but is majorly decorative.
and it also makes you hear your dog fart from the other room lmao xd it's awful and i can't believe how much you pay to live in a cardboard box in the us xd
Grew up in Kansas. Almost every house was wood frame with siding. Live in Florida now. Still lots of wood frame, but more steel frame with newer builds. Still plaster or siding on outside.
British houses are misy aerated concrete inner walls, brick outer walls with 50 to 75mm insulated cavity between. Structural internal walls are blockwork. Non structural are timber frame studding and plasterboard. Best of both IMO.
A lot of people are from Europe and seem to be getting the wrong idea. The walls are mostly made of wood. The “paper” is surprisingly hard and is just a cover for interior walls. Outside walls are brick, wood, or other weather resistant materials.
and walls in america is made for temperature isolation in Canada the temperature can be -30°C to 30°C so we need a wall that the exterior cold or heat cannot enter inside
@@meelia4593try reading. They said the paper is "a cover," meaning there's stuff under that paper. Wtf do you think would be under that paper if they said it's "mostly wood?"
In Puerto Rico, houses walls are concrete blocks put together with concrete and reinforced concrete columns and some walls are reinforced concrete, you need serious tools to change inside configurations and if you need to open a wall facing the outdoor you need serious tools and is going to cost.
That's why we have paper walls here in the US. Welcome to the Surveillance State! Your Wifi creates and field that can be read and used to identify everything in every room of your house, including you. Brick, block and lead (in paint) all block Wifi. They aren't actually worried about you eating paint chips, that was what they said to get rid of lead.
@@mysticmadman5961 then dont get fucking wifi... lol simple as that. No one had wifi at one point and houses were already built like that. Cox gives you internet without wifi and good luck trying to get a modem with it without paying over 100 bucks.
I live in Asia and have brick walls. When watching American shows as a kid, I tried to punch a hole into the wall like in the show. I learned that lesson real fast.
Yeah, don't do that lol. I will say though, the walls are easy to fix if you do punch a hole in them. We got lucky and got an old house that still has brick walls, and since we live in tornado country, I feel much safer now lol.
@@cthulucalamari2448why isn’t there any regulation that allows only brick or cement buildings to be built in tornado zones? Every year in the news I see houses crushed during hurricane season, just fix the problem already!😂
@@fredericoduvel3092 brick and cement won't stop a tornado. it'll just mean you have to dodge bricks and cement chunks when the tornado picks up your neighbor's house and tosses it onto yours.
@fredericoduvel3092 Basements for tornado zones. Hurricanes will still flood you out. Honestly not sure if just brick and cement would really help with severe weather.
@@nyanSynxPHOENIXit would if it’s properly reinforced and foundations are made U don’t see big corporate buildings toppling down do u? I also live in a cyclone prone areas and we have been through super cyclones since 90s and it’s still standing
I mean, I do live in Alaska, and specifically I live in the Ring of Fire, so thankfully building codes are very strict. Yes, most houses here are made of wood, and yes, for small houses, wood construction is superior to brick and mortar when it comes to withstanding earthquakes due to wood’s flexibility and when it comes to efficient R-values for insulating against the winter weather. But as for the majority of newly-constructed homes in America, and for some of the houses up here that are not in fact built to that code, the economic inflation we’ve seen under Biden/Harris Presidential policies has certainly… “encouraged” corners to not just be cut but to be completely skipped altogether.
Yeah would you rather houses crumble apart during a tornado or whole brick walls flying. These decisions to build north american houses are specifically designed for the weather conditions we face over here
@@ibtissempharm8800Depends on how strong the tornado is. An F1 or F2 isn't going to do anything to a brick house, but brick homes become rubble in EF4s. Schools in America are often built out of brick, ar least partially if not fully. And I have seen schools with a brick wall knocked out or even just completely demolished.
Homes are also built with drywall and wood framing in Australia so what are you taking about? Also insulation requirements in AU suck. A few years ago homes didn’t even require insulation and double pane windows
@@spicynips8466 there are methods of construction and materials to make it quiet. Using screws instead of nails, glue, double framing, mass mats, mineral wool...
In Germany we have something called Gartenhaus. It’s not a real house just for the garden like a hobby. You don’t stay or live there. Or camping houses, for Holliday or the poorest. Took me years to understand American houses are like our garden houses. As a German I never understood how houses in the us burn fast like paper. Break easy and rip off at storms. Why a car crashes into a house like how😮 crash my house I’ll look out the window and call an ambulance for you and just continue my dinner. How does the police just break doors open and stuff. 😅 Later I came to see how cheap their house are manufactured like all wood and paper. That’s why people can crash through the roof😅
Yeah I'm in SW Europe and I saw a bus crash into a house a few months ago. The home owner was livid but his house was still completely intact (brick and stone walls 60cm thick). The bus..not so much 😂
To be fair, if we built like you did hurricanes and tornadoes would be a LOT more lethal than they already are. Brick walls become shotgun projectiles in those kinds of storms. Being inside of most brick buildings is a nigh death sentence as the building WILL come down on you more often than not. It may help in Blizzard conditions...for a bit. See one problem with solid brick walls it it makes piss poor insulation. When you have 4-8 feet of snow against your outer walls and you lack that insulation layer (which is what the air layer in the wall really is) the wall chills and the chill enters the house. If you have an insulation layer this effect takes a LOT of time and just a bit of decent warmth in the house is enough to prevent the chill from entering. This is thermodynamics. In heat it is worse for Europe. The sun beats on the brick building and heats up your walls, radiating that heat through your house. We have that nice buffer zone in the insulation area that allows our homes to be cooler in the summer, add to it the fact air conditioning is COMMON over here and that insulation layer works even better. I find it insane any place can claim to be civilized or advanced if air conditioning is not standard in buildings and cars. Many areas have noticed the increase in elderly dying from heat stroke in the past few years since that specific thing has been tracked, which has at least some local level governments in Europe looking at making air conditioning available and cheap for homes. Many American and Canadian retailers have been contacted regarding that in recent years for installer help and the like. The shock in their voices and on their faces when you casually mention punching a hole through a wall is always priceless. Y'all are really scared of altering your homes in big ways to make life better for some reason. The US sees storms and weather patterns on levels most of Europe just doesn't understand.
I always get reminded of this difference, whenever I watch home renovation DIYs where they just break down some walls, cut out a little window etc. That won't be happening when we start renovating.
We do love renovations! Drywall is handy for that. And it's plenty durable enough for regular use. Only needs a little maintenance every 50-ish years to stay looking new.
Besides that it’s actually dangerous to remove brick walls, because you never know how much load they carry unless you are a structural engineer, otherwise you always have to consult one, because if you just remove walls mindlessly the entire building can potentially collapse. Just informing you as a civil engineer 👷
Our walls are mostly gypsum. Ive been in a gypsum mine to do electrical work, its actually pretty cool stuff and used in a lot more than just sheetrock, mostly insulated soundproof flooring. Sheetrock walls also withstand the more aggressive weather we get, especially tornadoes. Youd think a 10 inch brick wall could withstand one, but history with edwardian brick archetecture and tornadoes here shows they crumble pretty easily. There is also benefits to sheetrock walls such as better insulation, ease of repair, and space to change any wires or plumbing you need to access in there. I do adore brick architecture, it looks so pretty. Hope whoever reads this enjoyed the infodump
@@toolbaggersyeah it is…. It’s fine. Aslong as you put shock dampeners in to disperse the shock wave. I lived in a country that has regular earthquakes. House where will built from brick mate they just didn’t use cement mortar…
St Louis area is full of very solid German built brick homes. The walls are not gypsum but plaster and lathe. They are typically older but functional and beautiful and found in the city. I owned one and it always reminded me of Hansel and Gretl’s home. PS St Louis sits at the tip of the New Madrid fault line. It’s been dormant for over 100 years but it’s one of the worst fault lines in the country.
Depending on location in America, SOME walls are thicker and bricked up. It largely depends on the local climate, age of the building, and the development of the area. Sometimes, the walls are wood, and hollow.
Nothing to do with climate, stone and brick walls are cool it hot climates, and warm in cold climates. You've just been sold short, it's why the USA is the most medicated population on the planet and also the most morbidly obese Western country in the world. No one cares, except for the $$$$'s.
German civil engineer here ✌🏼 One big reason for the shown difference is that in Germany, private houses are built to last for decades, or even centuries in some cases. The people building them often want to pass them down to their kids or grandkids. Houses stay in the family for generations. While the interior gets updated every now and then, the exterior often keeps its traditional look or gets upgraded for better energy efficiency. On the other hand, in the US, the building culture is way more flexible and volatile. Outside of the luxury real estate market, the value is more about the property itself. People build for the present. When they pass the house down, it's not uncommon for the next generation to tear it down and build something new. So, private houses don’t need to last as long and are often made with lighter materials.
@@StationZeroOne I’m sorry, but it’s not at all common for the next generation to tear down a house and build a new one. That only happens if a neighborhood is becoming gentrified and a new owner (not one who inherited the house) wants a bigger, more expensive house. 90% of the US housing market is existing homes, btw. People don’t pass houses on to the next generation because Americans frequently have to move for jobs. It’s pretty common for families to end up spread out over the entire country by the 2nd generation. My house was built in 1925, btw, and we are the 5th owners. As far as I’ve been able to determine, the house was never passed on to a family member. The previous owners moved to Florida. We’ve lived in it for 40 years and when we leave it we won’t literally pass it on to our son because he lives an hour’s drive away because of his job.
Buddy, timber framed houses can last for centuries. The oldest one in the US is coming up on 400 years. My hometown is filled with homes built in the 19th and even 18th centuries. The vast majority are timber framed with lathe and plaster walls (some swapped over to wallboard) and will be there in another 100 years despite being right in the path of hurricanes (and the occasional earthquake) for all that time
@@Alex-dh2cx interesting. I’ve seen centuries-old timber-framed houses in England but I didn’t know there were any that old in the US. You do mean timber-framed and not just wood construction? From your description it sounds like they are in the coastal Southeast, perhaps? Even where I am (upper Midwest) there are plenty of stick-built wood frame houses dating to the late 19th century. Heck, fortunes were made in the lumbering industry in Michigan in the mid to late 19th century providing the wood for houses in the Northeast.
@@timmotz2827 yeah, cut lumber built into a frame, and they're all up and down the east coast. I believe the oldest would be in Massachusetts, New England area in general really, where you'll find a number of homes built prior to the foundation of the US, but we've got some fairly old ones in the South as well.
I think it’s because he’s in Arizona where houses are made out of wood and paper so they’re not death traps during earthquakes. Most of west coast and midlands use this formula
P-cola Florida USA here, my exterior walls are concrete block but interior is wood frame and mason board. Built in 1953. My husband swears the block absorbs heat all day then radiates it back out and that is why the ac cannot keep up with the heat and doesn't cool down til 9 pm
@@Alex-dh2cxSpanish houses are made of Stones and concrete but in the summer heat they are very cool. So there is something wrong in your construction.
Yeah basically its hot as hell for 4 months, then the other 8 months are amazing. A handful of storms per year, some of them are "intense" but just a few trees knocked down here and there. As far as the walls this guy is talking about, yes real estate in AZ is becoming horrible. A lot of it is due to private equity companies purchasing all of the livable land and Californians moving here and trying to convert Phoenix/Scottsdale into a mini Cali. I would be kinda concerned about a house with thick brick walls though. I feel like that would boil me with the summer heat, but I dont know enough about materials in building and thermal insulation to refute or confirm anything.
@@annak804 I actually did some research on this after posting my comment. I also talked to my cousin who has an older brick house in AZ. Being well-insulated is partially separate from the actual material. A poorly insulated brick house would literally be an oven and bricks or concrete are actually pretty bad to use here in AZ because it is more difficult to insulate against the extreme heat. I am curious what the middle ground is though because paper thin walls obviously aren't good... Granted, we don't have extreme weather storms of any kind here so it doesn't exactly need any real weather proofing at least.
according to code in german construction, outside walls are required to be 36cm thick (the raw brick wall without any insulating layers that is) a structural inside wall is 24cm thick, and walls that only divide rooms but without any structural neccessity are 11cm thick. so the wall the guy measures in the beginning must be structural wall. responding to comments about wifi coverage: yes it's more difficult to get wifi throughout the entire house, but since in most regions in germany we don't even have highspeed internet/fibreoptic cable, you wouldn't even notice wether your internetvis slow due to bad wifi signal or just because you have the bandwidth of a early 90s 56k modem, or your ISP just sucks.
How is there not high speed internet available everywhere in Germany? I’m not talking shit I genuinely don’t understand. I live in an extremely rural part of America. A place so rural there’s probably nothing like it in Germany. And even here I have gigabit fiber(and I could get a business line of like 10 gig if I wanted but I don’t need that obviously), we switched from dial-up to some actually decent high speed internet back in like 2002.
@@charlesbrown4483 politics. i don't know the exact details, but at some point in the late 80s/early 90s some politician signed a contract with the post (which was also the phone company, and to a certain point in time a state owned entity, but i think at that point it was already converted to a private business) wherein copper cables would be subsidized with taxes, and the then more expensive technology wouldn't. so all the infrastructure was tax subsidized, but with old tech. to a certain point in time in tze early 00s this was sufficient, and hardly anyone complained, since dial up worked, and isdn also worked. only few households were ordering dsl internet connection, which was up to 3000mbit back then. so there was not yet enough incentive to invest to renew the infrastructure. it was slept on for 3 decades basically. and all the governements since, be it conservative led, social democrat led or a coalition of both, always had the promise in their campaigns to take care of the problem, but hardly anything was done, and because of the ginormous amount of bureaucracy that goes into EVERY building project, be it a garden shed on your own propert, that requires premission, or anything else, things move suuuuper slowly here. in recent years the stuff became even more complicated. some regions get fibreoptic internet from several private companies now (not the previously state owned Telekom/T-Mobile etc.) all this does now is having construction sites, the roads in front of peoples houses torn open every 2 years, so another company can route a cable underground, blow or on top of 3 other companies cables. it's an absolute mess. and more rural regions besides not getting fast internet, often also do not have mobile phone reception. the mobile phone situation is even worse than the high speed internet situation.
@@charlesbrown4483 may not be the best explanation, but basically, there was a monopoly on internet access for a long time, so they never bothered to get better. also, there were (and still are) a lot of old farts in charge, who didn't believe that investing in good internet was necessary. so unfortunately us germans now have some of the most expensive, yet at the same time worst internet in all of europe :') like, only NOW are they bothering to slowly put out fiber connections, and even then, it's very slow and you often have to pay for the construction yourself, and if not, internet access is still gonna cost a whole lot
euuumm.... Have you ever heard about router nodes? 2 or 3 or how many you gotdamn need to get the coverage in how many and which room you want. No need to send signal through a whole building.
The funny thing is that we also build houses out of concrete too. In hurricane prone regions like Florida. But we mainly build based on climate. It wouldn’t make sense to build a concrete house in an area that gets no hurricanes because you’d be overbuilding. Wood is pretty good and when used with proper sheathing like plywood and OSB it can last quite a while.
The funny part is that you mostly build based on prices, concrete is better but most people can’t afford cause the same constructors made the prices so insanely high it’s not worth it, convincing everyone that some paper is better
@@xavigc5642 it’s wood not paper. Two completely different materials with different purposes. One is structural and strong, one is better for drawing on.
yeah no, my house was built in the 50s and when we had to get our bathroom redone there was wood, concrete, chicken wire, and plaster. they wanted this house to STAND lolol
Walls in India are also made out of bricks, cement and plaster...as a kid I used to be amazed when they would just punch a hole in the wall...it took me years to realise how that was possible 😂😂😂
Paraguayan here, we have the same types of houses built with bricks and cement, although lately the cost of bricks is very high so they are being built with "hollow bricks" and cement, still quite rigid and durable.
As a German I never understood how in horror movies there could be something hiding in the wall
😆 🤣 😂 makes sense!
You guys have a history of building castles with hidden passages in the walls. Every culture has that. And in America a normal human can't fit in the gaps in the wall. This is a rich person problem, not a cultural problem.
Edit: Americans are not scared of things hiding in our walls any more than any other country. Ignore that we have gaps in our walls. That has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS HORROR TROPE. Germans make movies of people hiding in walls too. It's not an American exclusive thing. That is a misconception.
THEY'RE IN THE WALLS
@Jcarby24 yes the German peasant class ancestry can definitely relate to castle life😂😂😂😂
We also have rodents and pests in our walls sometimes.😂
This is why Germans never understood how the Kool-Aid guy came bursting through the wall in commercials...
Why is my Nana's house in Tucson AZ at Pueblo gardens made of brick... And all the other houses are too in the neighborhood.
I think the neighborhood was built in the 50s.
@@justinV.-yd1fb because shitboxes are a relatively new thing in America, we used to understand that a home should be built to last but now its just about churning out the cheapest house possible
This is really why they really started ww3
@@justinV.-yd1fb Thick stone walls actually help keep the house cool in a hot climate. Just look at Spains architecture.
Germans: he's so powerful holyshit
As a german I never understood how you can punch in the wall and break it
not gonna work outside the united states even if the robocop attempts to break it...
Drywall isn't that hard to punch through. I live in the US, and I've actually punched through it before (it was in frustration and a few years ago)
@@MythicDayI bet that stung like a bitch😂
We’re just really, really strong
@graylincard6971 came here to say this, too. We're all just cornbred fed thick boy's that can punch through concrete whenever the need arises..... anymore questions
“I’m a homeowner”
No, you’re just $350.000 in debt on a cardboard box 😂
Bro our walls are made of drywall! But the outside of my house is concrete block and stucco!
Depends.
My home is block and stucco. The walls on the inside of my house are not drywall believe it or not. It's a pain in the ass to hang stuff on them. 😅
@@ArginneDrywall...you mean fancy cardboard? Come on
On a "fancy" cardboard
A crap hole where I live goes for half a million nowadays.
I was always so confused when movies showed characters punching through walls😂
As an Indian, I feel you
Some of our older American homes are not so poorly constructed. But the newer homes here are called (in MANY places not all) "cookie cutter homes". You go into a neighborhood and pick out your home design from 4 or 5 different house plans. They build your home quickly and poorly and you spend the rest of your life paying 20x the value of it to the bank.
@@KatieDeGo and we didn’t have to worry about our homes getting blown up by artillery
yeah if i try that i will put a bunch of cracks, in my hand
As an American I was always so confused how houses in other countries fell down in earthquakes
I've been to Germany, they pour concrete walls, 3 story high, made to last 500 years, owner lives in middle flat, & rent out other 2.
Y'all only have baby tornadoes though.
@@SarahSmith-rx3xm and insignificant earthquakes. Brick and concrete is the first thing to collapse in a large one
@@heckingbamboozled8097 Earthquakes in the US are only limited to the West and Southwest
Sorry. I don't want a house that will last centuries. That is expensive, and not worth it to me.
I want a house that will last for as long as I will be in it.
I also don't like old houses. Bugs/rodents break their way in. Things break. They get outdated.
Like my friend in Belgium is always complaining about his 220 year old home.
Lack of central air. Lack of electrical outlets. Hard to get similar replacement parts(lol). Also the plumbing design is out dated AF, and will cost a fortune to repair.
He wants to modernize it, but it would cost so damn much. Like half the price of a new home.
The thing is... Technology and home design is constantly evolving. I'd rather have a house that lasts just long enough.
I'd much rather live in a well built new home that takes advantage of technology. Then deal with an 30-500 year old home.
With that said. Screw the houses that guy inspects, and regulations for insulation need to change.
Edit - I get it. You have a old house that you are proud of having to deal with.
If I wanted to fix things I would be a maintenence man. I've got better things to do than fix a rickety old home.
Europeans - Who are you to talk? Many of your homes don't have window screens, and you have laundry machines in your kitchen or some other random place. Also lacking central air or even AC in some places!
Alright I am ignoring this thread. I said my piece. Peace!
@@waitwhat....2473 I live in Germany. We don't have air-conditioning except for grocery stores and maybe a few offices. During summer you learn to put down the window "screens" (Rolläden) which block out the sun completely and then only air out the rooms from time to time. That way the house usually stays so cool you need a cardigan inside and shorts outside.
When we heat we usually heat the central part of the house which we spend the most time in. No point in heating up every bedroom when we're sleeping with the window open no matter what temperature it is. The doors to rooms that don't need heating just stay closed. A lot of houses still have wood stoves but I don't know if it's necessarily cheaper than gas. Newer houses usually come with floor heating and most houses have tiles everywhere that also help keep cool during summer.
I'm an idiot and got myself an apartment in which my bedroom is right under the roof and it does get hot. I got myself sun block foil for the windows which has helped a lot, as there's not screen on my triangle bedroom window.
Im pooping and i can hear my neighbors having a perfectly clear conversation about why my poop is so loud.
😂😂 that's poor people experience 😅 If that's common obviously there's huge double standard gap
One of the funniest comments I've seen today
I have this as well in Sweden, building built in 2021....😅
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
HELPPPPPP
In the Philippines, houses are made of plastered reinforced concrete and concrete hollow blocks. Typhoons are rampant here so concrete is preferred to protect us from strong winds and rain. It also last a lifetime. Low income households use wood, bamboo and plywood. We also use drywall inside if we want to reduce cost or space flexibility is to be considered. But generally, most of the time we prefer the composite of reinforced concrete and CHB. As long as you follow the Building Code your house can withstand category 5 typhoons and magnitude 8.4 earthquakes.
Ha! It turns out it works?)
Many Europeans wonder why Americans build "cardboard" houses if even a small tornado destroys them. And they argue that concrete houses will also collapse, but it's much harder to rebuild than wooden ones)
So it turns out that a concrete house can withstand a typhoon?)
@@mmiro Yes, it works and more cost effective since we experience an average of 20 typhoons and 800 earthquakes per year. It will be more costly to build a house made of light materials like wood or paper every year. Even some 1-storey 30 sqm residential building are made with reinforced concrete. Our Building Codes are also created to guide us how to build houses, like the radius of the steel reinforcement and thickness of the concrete wall that can withstand category 5 typhoons and magnitude 8.4 earthquakes.
same as taiwan
@@mmiro the wind speeds in typhoons are like type 1or 2 hurricanes,
while tornados in the US
Tornado.Alley are 5 times as strong and deadly
@@baardagaamTyphoons, cyclones, hurricanes. they're all the same phenomena, just on different parts of the world.
also the strongest storm in recorded history was ST haiyan, katrina and sandy pales in comparison. strong concrete houses hit by the eye remained standing, minus the roof doors and windows, some were rebuilt with what available materials was left.
couldn't say the same if it was made with sticks and high density paper.
As an Romanian
You do not break the wall the wall breaks you
Use ,
Как, в принципе, и во всей Восточной Европе (наверное).
As a Romanian, i can confirm that is true. (salut)
Adv
Sall
"This is a minecraft wall. It's a meter thick."
Not necessarily
until we get vertical slabs
@@davidallen5142Tf
@@davidallen5142 will that ever happen 😢
in our 60 y old house are walls 60cm thick :-D (24 inches)
Same in Spain. If you punch the wall it won't flinch, but you are visiting the doctor
Once I saw a reality show named Jersey Shore(?) and they went to Italy for vacation. One of the guests used to smash his head in the wall and make a hole when he was mad, he attempted to make the same in Italy and got a concussion lol. He said he forgot he was in Europe lol 🤕💫
@@estherbley7837 yeah...Mtv decadence...we suffered the same here in spain, called "gandia shore", placed in Valencia..what a shame..🤦🏻♂️
I live in Poland and my pal punched wall in anger. Injured all 4 fingers, wall looked flawless.
But in Spain the doctor is covered by the state, not paying any insurance ❤️
@@marcocrespi1617 that doesn't mean you don't feel the pain 😂
I live in Canada. Our building codes make for expensive houses too. Lots of insulation and structural strength for exterior walls and especially our roofs. But the interior ones are like in the USA.
Our homes have to support TONS of snow, and an 80 degree celsius differential between summer and winter.
ThTs from -40 to +40 C. Doesnt make Sense. Canada never reaches 40degree
@@geegegege5673 In my city, we've had it between -56° and 43° in the last 18 years...
@@geegegege5673yea it does, yeppp :)
@@geegegege5673I grew up in South East Saskatchewan with summer temps above 40 C. Other regions of Canada also reach 40.
In Brazil, houses are also usually made of bricks, cement and concrete
exatamente e é excelente a resistência das paredes
Thats because so many Nazis crossed over after '45
In Africa to
in India too
In most countries around the world that's how houses are made.. except the US. 😅
As a Nigerian, i never understood it when some people online were like they punched through their wall
Bro Nigerian houses are made out of plastic and tires ☠️
Someone deffo needs to do some research
Same and I only understood once I moved to America 😭😭
I’ll still take my American house over a German house all day. Our amenities, layouts, internet, bigger tvs, door dash, everything is just nicer
@@Jtstien We also have amenities. The internet is at most places ok, it is expanding and is and will be better in the future. We also have big TVs - just buy one in the store or online. We also have multiple things comparable to Doordash.
With e.g. better health care, Germany is just better than the US. Also, our houses don‘t fly away in a storm that easily.
And our cities/towns are walkable and easily accessible with bikes and public transport.
"It's made out of paper [long pause and eye shifting] and air." Loved your delivery.
I got a very 'Quark literally selling hot air' vibe...
Cringe
American walls are made of our me st abundant resources: wood. Germany has a minimal forest resource for providing lumber, so the German wall has to be made of their more abundant resources: stone and clay/mud for brick. Germans love American homes for their spacious
price: 1m €
@@jgrmtnjgrmtn3954no American walls the support structure is wood but the walls are typically drywall which is made from paper and gypsum
That is actually crazy! I was watching all the horrible destruction from Helene in NC, and saw a house just split in two. I did not understand how that was possible. Our home is so solid, nothing breaks it in two. The roof might fly off, we get bad storms in the Faroe Islands, but the house is going nowhere.
Also, prayers for all the poor people going through the disaster right now💙
if the hillside comes down so does your brick house
@@ronblack7870 Our house is built on solid rock and concrete foundations, then brick, I think the walls might break, but I doubt the house would move. We have had mudslides here (Faroe Islands) and that is what happened. Houses got mudslide running through it, but the house itself stayed put😊
One thing to remember is that the hurricane can still knock down the brick house, and then you would have bricks flying everywhere wrecking more stuff
@@MtnNerdand what's the chance of that compared to American houses which you almost every time ser hundreds upside down during these disasters?
I think something to add here is actually NC or other areas devastated by Helene get hit by tropical storms often. Also prior to Helene I know NC got a lot of rainfall and most of the ground is actually Red Clay. Clay is a poor absorber of water, so a wet September + a tropical storm on top of an area that is mountains and valleys led to a lot of flooding. It's very uncommon, the last great flood was in 1916 and from what I have read, there hasn't been a flood as bad prior to 1916. The Carolina's do not experience floods and landslides of that magnitude.
Could housing permits change due to weather, if such an experience is more common? Absolutely, but until then the "wood" houses have done just fine for many generations because the risk of an actual disaster of that was not even a concept to most. (Also wood is cheaper in the US and the south is very poor)
"All it takes is one match to light a fire" became a new meaning for me today
Drywall (the “paper” wall) doesn’t burn
@@BrunoFerreira-zg1dk an accelerant can make anything burn
@@jaandeleon4204i lived in New Jersey ~10 years ago and none of the houses in the neighborhood were built with stones and concrete. Even the expensive ones who looked like they were made out of stone, were actually made out of paper and only had stones GLUED on to look sturdy. Faux stone / stone veneer isn’t that uncommon
Yeah and when something lights on fire in those brick houses they become pizza ovens.
All that paper and plaster we called a house will cost >$800’000
German wall was designed to withstand 155mm howitzer round.
American wall was designed to withstand mother's flip-flops.
🤣🤣🤣
Indians use reinforced concrete mesh over the brick cause our flip flops are more lethal
Nah if she's angry these flip flops will fly through the wall😂
Well, in tornado prone areas it's important the house is as light as possible. Thick sturdy brick walls form a way deadlier debris than some plasterboard that shreds. Because in a tornado, the house is gonna go, whatever it's made of. Unless it's 3 ft thick reinforced en deeply founded concrete, in other words a bunker.
@@paulmichaelfreedman8334most homes in Germany have something like a bunker. A basement of solid cement ❤
"This is a Chinese wall"
*knock*
"Oh shit, sorry for intruding."
"This is a German wall."
"Mr. Gorbechav....
@@xiphos8219 “This is a Mexican wall.”
“Mr. Trump…”
"This is an old Chinese wall"
"Mr. Khan..."
"This is a Chinese Wall"
*Tofu Dreg Wall*
"Oh Wait, That's My Dinner"
Yeah as I recall the Germans and the communist 's are really good at putting up walls! Especially in the 3k zone .
My American house is made from stone, metal, real wood, and glass. I built it myself. No drywall. Swedish framed interior walls capped with PT plywood and cabinet grade Birch (combined for 1.5” of solid sheathing). Hurricane strapped. Bolted to concrete. Metal roof. First floor waterproofed with Schluter.
Nice, can you build me a home
@@johnrutherford2326 I never built a house before, so I started researching in 2009. All the information was available online. I made many mistakes along the way (and wasted a lot of money), but the end result is worth it.
I wish more Americans were able to enjoy the privileges of homesteading, but our screen time takes away from this. We begin to limit our goals to get by instead of getting ahead. They said I could not curve my metal roof or cantilever the foundation. I built both above code requirements & now my curved metal roof resists wind better than if it were flat. You can do more than you know. Aim for unachievable and discover your hidden potential. You can do it too and maybe better than “average”.
Parts of Florida use Cinder Block because of the hurricanes but my current house is the paper horror show and I live in a hurricane possible zone.
Intelligent person here
german here. when I was younger, my cousin punched the wall because he was angry at his mom for not allowing him to stay over night. He saw kids do it in the US movies where they punched a hole in the wall.
We went to the hospital - he broke his hand as well as his arm.
Lesson: don't act like a stupid American?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I actually feel bad for him tho 😢
😭😭😭😭
Oh... Du meine Arme
We are a bad influence on the world.
In Argentina, houses are also made of brick and cement. They are very solid. If you ask an architect to make you one in the American style, with those materials, he will surely laugh in your face.
son tan muertos de hambre que si les decis de armar una casa de papel de diario y engrudo le mandan igual 😂 (solo molesto a un compatriota)
We know where Argentina got their building skills from 🫢
@@phillipmiller3819 You've never been to Carlsbad and Escondido, CA, I take it.
The "Danish" cafés were crawling with old Nazis as late as 2000 or so (with the radio playing 'Lili Marlene' and all), and the antique stores look like Nazi museums.
Yeah but using cement and bricks in insanely less efficient and TERRIBLE for earthquakes for example. It's just stupid.
@@rodrigomendes3327 dude, we have not earthquakes in argentina, we have high criminal rates so, live in a bunker is a need
For everything that americans are paying they honestly deserve better
Their heavy brick walls are part of why they complain they're in a oven whent temp is barely reaching high 70s in the summer
@@Thanatos_808Pal, thick walls keep the house fresh. If your thick walls let hot air come inside, your thick walls are shitty.
@@granlago2235i think it has more to do with the bricks baking in the sun and then radiating heat into the house.
American walls are fine because air is a great insulator. The sun can bake the outer wall, then the outer wall has to radiate heat into the air, then that air has to heat up the interior wall, and finally the interior wall starts to radiate heat into the house.
I'm not too fond of living in a house made of giant popsicle sticks.....and paper....
@@oliverstephens6319great now you live in the humid south and your house is dilapidated bc your house is made from toothpicks and paper
Mexican and German walls are the same. When I first saw houses being built in the US I was so puzzled why they would use “little sticks and panels” to build houses and buildings. I really wondered how they support any weight at all. It still makes me wonder! Haha. I still call it that, “they are building our home with little sticks!” 😆
I feel the complete flabergasm.
Italian here. I remember when in the show Geordie Shore one guy used to knock his own head against the walls every time he got angry to be dramatic. Then they filmed a season in Italy, the first time he did it he got hospitalized.
Edit: it was Jersey shore
*Jersey shore. Geordie shore is the UK one
@@deadstock2452 oh, you're right! Thank you!
@@deadstock2452similar habitants 😂
That's literally the only thing I'd like to see from that reality show haha
😂😂😂
As a Pole I remember when my dad broke a drill trying to make a hole in the wall, I was sitting in my room and just heard him swearing and then laughing like a gremlin when he came up to me and showed me the broken drill saying, that if Hitler reincarnated today and nuked this village the house wouldn't even flinch and this is my favourite thing istg xDD
As a German I find this hilarious and relatable. I can clearly see your father randomly swearing at this wall rn because this same thing happened to me once😂
😂😂
ur dad is all fun n games lol. A week ago I had hard time drillin 2 holes through a tile with a bit without carbide tip... I was done after half an hour and sharpening the bit like 5 time because it was overheating as hell and all red. But as a traditional Pole i chose that torment over going to hardware store to get a right one
POLES CAN WRITE?!? AND THEY HAVE FATHERS!!!
Now tgen, back to the daily heil for you...@@Abderrahmane-zq3bw
As a Florida resident it's wild to see what az makes their houses out of. Particle board and stucco. Thank God for hurricane standards I guess
I was coming here to say what no concrete block under the stucco. Boy we are much better off here. Stucko sprayed onto chickenwire with paper backing thats insane
I live in florida and all the new builds are wood and paper
No one builds houses out of particle board lol
Coming from Brazil, is hard to adapt to US building standards, feels like it gonna break.
And I lived in Florida as well, even though first floor was CBS, second floor was all like a dollhouse.
@@MoreDakka421 North Florida? In palm beach county it's 99% cbs
My childhood home (which my parents built by hand) has 10 inch thick adobe walls. I grew up in New Mexico USA. When I told my classmates about it during discussion of pueblo style homes they asked if we had dirt floors 😂 (we had all of the modern comforts) This type of construction was common 100s of years ago in this area, but modern construction is much like what the Arizona guy showed. However, on the exterior I thought it was common to have at least waferboard/OSB behind the stucco. It wouldn't be easy to push a nail into with your thumb. New construction keeps getting worse and worse.
That's why when a hurricane hits, your houses immediately fly away.
Yep I would rather my house fly away then have a bunch of bricks fall on me and we build them the way we do mainly for the hot weather if we lived in 100% brickhousing we'd all die of heat strocks
@@jerretttesta5093 Are you aware that thick stone walls naturally keep your house cold?
@jerretttesta5093 so your claiming brick houses are hotter than wooden houses in the summer? Interesting. 😂
@@Ellbogendid not do very well for that stereotype of them being uneducated did they? Land of the free, homes of wood...
Well at least for tornadoes, they'll knock a brick house down too. Having an underground storm shelter is more important
It must be hell trying to get wifi coverage throughout the whole house.
Yeah, you need one router per floor, and some rooms may need their own cause its just impossible to get internet into that room.
There's these cool little things you plug into any outlet called wifi extenders, search em up.
With legal end consumer wifi yes.
With illegal high power industrial wifi it works.
It must be hell trying convince myself that paper is better than concrete
@@xavigc5642 its not even reasonable cheaper.
Houses still cost 200k.
As a Mexican, I never understood how hurricanes and tornados could sweep houses away. Our houses are made of brick and cement. Had to learn US houses actually have WOOD in them.
@@Lilybonit4 regions with lots of trees build with wood. Regions without lots of trees build with the materials available to them. It’s that simple.
@@timmotz2827i know it's about convenience but I'm in Paraguay, a third world country full o trees and i never saw a wooden house, everything is bricks and cement around here
@@georgoroth Spanish influence from the colonial period, perhaps? The US was settled at first mainly by immigrants from Britain, where there was a long tradition of building with wood (although timber-framed rather than stick built). It also depends on what kinds of trees you have. In North America, a lot of the forests are conifers-pine, spruce, etc. They grow straight and tall and particularly in the 19th century with old growth forests, they were pretty free of branches for most of their height. Today, conifers in managed forests have the advantage of growing fairly quickly. So it’s a renewable resource that is easy to build with.
A brick and cement house would also get blown away by a hurricane or a tornado. The us gets a lot of winds and brick and concrete will fracture, so we use wood and steel.
@@evanfopma5083 that's true, both kinds of houses will be blown away but i guess timber houses would be cheaper and easier to fix
Brazil is the same, all houses made of brick walls . I remember questioning how could people go through walls in American movies hahaha
Swedes also have "german" walls, i found out about 2 years ago that americans basically live in shoes boxes😂
Just like any other European country
You don't know much about America huh?
Idk where this guy lives, but I'm pretty sure most of our walls are made of wood and sheetrock. At least mine are.
😂
@@HelpW4ntedhey, I hate to be that guy, but most drywall, brand name "sheetrock" is made of gypsum. It's the same stuff high quality paper is made from. While it is a mined material, gypsum is mostly used for paper. Sadly, that is why we have such bad mold problems here in the good ole USA.
I'm currently living in the first floor of a portuguese house build back in the 70's. I swear my exterior walls are around 50cm thick, made of stone. They are exposed for decor, but I'm sure the stone plays a major role keeping the house fresh and in a constant temperature. Also have very good quality triple glazed windows. The sun shines during the summer right on all sides of the house, but the house is always at a constant 21/22c which pretty comfortable.
I live in a house in america built in the 40s
All houses in Portugal are like that, the idea of having "paper" walls seems so wrong to me
This is so normal for Europe. I’m shocked that even in a fancy neighbourhood in the states, the walls are well, not walls.
I live in sweden in a log house made year 1568😂
@@StellaAdler_ I thought that half a meter is way too thick
Modern construction vs old construction. Built for quick cash vs built for your great grandchildren to inherent.
Depends on the area you’re in in the US. There’s no point in building a house that costs a lot if your house is more likely to get destroyed in a natural disaster. Whether that be hurricanes, earthquakes, or tornados.
@@salrodriguez21 With brick houses, you can only lose your roof in a tornado. I've built my brick house last year (177 square metres, 107 sq/m of living space and 70 sq/m of basement), and I'm sure it would withstand 7 richters, easily. We don't have tornadoes here, but it would only take off my roof tiles. Beneath it I have 20cm of armed concrete that wouldn't move anywhere. So even after a tornado, I would just have to buy new roof tiles, instead of building an entire new house. And it cost me around 70.000€ to build. I'm just finishing my facade. And I've build it with my father in law and my father alone. Trust me, this is a bunker. Especially my basement. It's not going anywhere. My grandchildren will be able to live here. It's 5km away from the city, 350 meters of altitude, great air, great piece of land. I'm planning to grow my own food. After 34 years of living in the city center, I ran away to build a heaven for my children. I've spent my entire life savings, but it was worth it.
Construction is crap today.....older homes probably have a better chance at surviving than a paper one....oddly enough people will spend hard cash living in areas where their house can be blown away...but won't invest in making it stronger to prevent more damage....yup.
Makes sense to me
@@jolemire2546 How long have you been livin in the US? We have things called microbursts that can be as powerful as bombs. We have tornadoes which throw trees through brick walls. There are also earth quakes where the modern building survives better than rigid cement/brick walls. Massive concreate buildings have to have special joints in them to let them have give so they do not break apart as easily.
Also guess which is cheaper to rebuild when your house does get destroyed.
Is this Exterior or Interior wall? Uk houses are block and brick outside but if you divide up the rooms inside say for a bathroom you just use wood to make a "stud work" frame and put plasterboard and plaster both sides
You can’t convince me. I’ve played rock paper scissors before, and I know that paper beats rock.
Chicken wire doesn't beat rock.
You should be less worried about Germans having rock walls and more worried about thieves with scissors.
Oh yeah? Well my walls are made out of SCISSORS!
But the 50 meter per second wind would beat the paper😊
I remember asking my sister how paper beats rock and she said that paper wraps around the rock and suffocate it
"This is a Brazilian wall, made of bricks, beams and concrete. Sometimes it can be made from concrete blocks as well. At least 10 cm thick. No, you can't break this wall by punching it, unless your bricklayer is the king of incompetence."
“… made of bricks, beams and concrete. Sometimes there is cocaine mixed in for *XTRA STRENGTH* …”
@@morpheus_9😂 classic American education 😅
@@morpheus_9 kakakakaka brasileiro tbm?
Ele tá confundindo Brasil com Colômbia e Mexico
@@morpheus_9 bro this is México and colombia not brazil
Most walls here in New Zealand are made from wooden frames and gib board with weather boards on the outside. Easy to insulate, lay cables, fix, punch through etc...😊
Thats how it is in the US too
@@christophercombs7561yeah but America Bad 😠
Yeah the walls are made of a material called drywall which is like a thick plywood, and it's reinforced with wood beams every 1-2 feet. There are brick houses and concrete buildings but those are usually older or apartments respectively. Most new houses are the drywall type, with a Tyvek and plastic weather wall exterior and roofs made of like, tar and tiles. Sometimes this weird asphalt paper shingles instead of tiles. In Cy's area Stucco is really popular for exterior walls as well because it is very dry, not so much on the east coast. But you can straight up punch through a wall as long as there isn't a wood stud behind it in America. The foundation is usually concrete though at least so if it burns down you can build a new house on top.
Easy to burn and lose your house in a tornado too 😊
Jokes aside, I was always so confused at how people lost their whole houses to fire in movies and tv shows. I was like: the worst fire's gonna do is burn through everything that is cloth and wood and maybe cause problems because of electrical, but no way you're losing your actual house. It's a huge loss, you'll have to replace everything inside, but you still have your walls and the structure of your house there
@BiaSilva-ri3tx a tornadoes will kill your brick and concrete home too only it will be orders of magnitude more expensive to rebuild
Okok but how do you hang stuff up??
Even here in India houses are made of concrete. Growing up I used to be incredibly confused as to how in western media like movies and stuff people punched through the wall lmao.
I thought you get that strong when you grow up that you punch through concrete.
In India le case sono fatte da muratori in ciabatte antinfortunistiche e terriccio dei vasi 😂
@@robertopugliese6808 all that development and still they didn't teach you guys to respect others
Say's a lot about you.
@@robertopugliese6808हेच शिक्षण दिले आई वडिलांनी?
Because wood and plaster deform better and hold heat and the cold better in climates that go into extremes
@@bletwort2920Nahi kalnar hya goryanna. Hech chappal ghalun banawleli bhinti hyanchya peksha majbut aahe. 😂
Too be fair one wall is meant to withstand artillery fire while one isn’t 😅
One is built to last generations. America is in it to make money and move on to the next scam.
And one was built to fall apart quickly to motivate the buyers to move quickly and buy another house
@Celestial_Reach or maybe idk, the houses in the US suit the US climate & geography plus the ABUNDANT amount of wood?
@@mikeguerrero7416nope they suit the small wallet and the American dream for everyone to own a house. It is much more expensive to purchase or build a house in Germany. On the positive side a German house rarely flies away in a storm nor does it need to be rebuilt after 80 years of use.
We might need military grade walls
Here in the eastern US, virtually all home builders use at least 7/16” OSB sheathing on the exterior walls. What’s up with the Phoenix AZ area?!
Too much wood near the ground brings on termites.
@beentheredonethat3624 we have termites on the east coast, too, but we're fine with using wood
Stucco stucco and more stucco
My state uses 7/16 OSB or Zip sheathing on ALL residential projects to handle high wind loads and snow loads. Cardboard won’t cut it here.
Ive seen them use the white cardboard in texas on new homes. I cant believe they use sy h poor quality materials smh
and that's why im so happy i live in Germany just over the border with the Netherlands and indeed housing quality is amazing here never ever hear anything much from my neighbours :) just because of proper isolation and HR+++ glass
I’m from Romania, our walls are also made of bricks and plaster, and I never understood why american walls break so easy especially when I was watching movies
Drywall is plaster though. Not sure why the exterior walls for that house are so thin a nail can go through them. I'm in the US and the walls are wood, coated in cement (stucco)
It's because it's cheaper to build and Americans are forced to overpay for everything, with no universal healthcare like subsidized Isray-el has.
@@squirrelsinjacket1804 You went from what walls are made of to an anti-israel dogwhistle. While I also don't like Israel I must applaud the mental gymnastics employed here.
@@Scyborg832 it wasn't a dog whistle
cuz in America tornadoes often occur and such walls are cheaper
In Europe, buildings walls have bricks, space for cables and a hard wood cover. Up until 100 years ago houses were made with stones and concrete
You will be surprised that Europe is very diverse and all sorts of walls exist.
@@PlatonsArmNah i'm from Spain we have the same walls as the germans
@@LuismiPantigasame here in bulgaria
Altho a bit tinner
@@LuismiPantigasame here in ireland
Du erzählst einen Schwachsinn. In Europa werden zu 90% Gebäudehüllen aus Beton gefertigt. Selbst Poroton Steine sind selten geworden. Es gibt hier keine Häuser aus Pappe, wie in den USA.
When I was a child I watched Mr. And Mrs. Smith. And in one scene they fell down the stairs and destroyed the wall.
I was so confused and wondered which super hero's they must have been because when I fell against our wall the last time it didn't change or destroyed anything. Well, okay the blood stains gave the white wall a "colourful" touch.
You just can't break a brick wall except you are Hulk 🤷♀️
All German new builds houses likely have internal plasterboard stud walls.
The older houses are bricks and blocks internally but that is the same everywhere.
"It's made out of paper... and AIR!" This one got me!
🇧🇷In Brazil, we build houses using bricks and concrete, while plasterboard walls are used only inside business buildings because it is easier to readapt the spaces.
Hopefully you never experience earthquake
@@DimitriTheBarbarianwe dont have vulcanos, tornados or earthquakes here 😂
@@DimitriTheBarbarian there is no earthquakes in brazil bro
@@DimitriTheBarbarian we are in the middle of a tectonic plate. So, no earthquakes!
@@DimitriTheBarbarian but we have a lot of stray bullets
Even i lived in poor country like Indonesia does have thicker walls. And it made with brick, cements, sands, sometimes pebbles.
Here in America we use the materials we do because it’s easier to customize and safer in natural disasters. Wood is a renewable resource as stone and brick are not. It’s better for the environment, more affordable and easy to transport. Brick and stone are prone to water damage and foundational issues. Most of our craftsmen of the past were Scandinavian as well so I think that may play a big part in it.
@faleilham8334 : but still not as thick as in Germany or in The Netherlands 😊 we have double bricks here. So it wouldn't be too cold in the winter and too warm in the summer 😊
@@CometnHoshi Tell me whats better for the environment: A house that lasts for several hundred years, or a house that has to be build new after several decades.
Sustainability is the key factor when it comes to protecting the environment, because the more materials and energy you need in a certain period of time, the more the environment is burdened.
That's also the reason why the US has by far the highest energy consumption per capita in the world. (And no, the Nordic countries do not count, as they get almost all their energy from renewable sources and have to heat much more due to the much colder climate.)
@@walther2492 A house that can withstand simple to moderate natural disasters. One that if it did fall, wouldn’t crush people to smithereens. One where cracks wouldn’t compromise the entire integrity of the home (lmfao) one that isn’t prone to trapped moisture and dampness, stone is TERRIBLE for insulation. I’m speaking for our climates here btw, however it does apply to many European places that do not have the same climate and are almost all wet, as opposed to here. We build what’s best for us and I think that’s the part many of y’all miss…greatly.
@@CometnHoshiwait... hows wood better for nature than bricks?
In Germany you don't brake the wall. It brakes your hand and you'll never try it again
Kommt hin. Kommt aber auf das Material und Dicke an. Meine Wände sind aus Gips
In the rest of Europe too. Americans deserve better.
Бумага и Воздух 🎉 Великолепно👏 , а как зимой отопить эту палатку?
Там вроде как ниже +10 редко бывает зимой. Учитивая тот слой пенопласта, думаю обычного кондиционера на комнату будет более чем достаточно
the construction reflects the environment it is built in, for instance here in Brazil we have brick walls (strong and cheap), spiked fences/electrical fences around the house and metal gates on the windows (for preventing assaults) and mosquitoes screen on the windows as well (to prevent a very specific flying insect lol)
it's cool to see how the construction reflects the conditions around it, in colder regions there are hot gas tubes inside the walls, meanwhile greek houses used a type of paint that was a disinfectant against cholera in the 1930s, this paint was white and therefore greek houses look mostly white
very cool
We also do the same here in Mexico but we even sometimes put broken glass on the wall that separates the house from the street
Bricks are not strong. There is a reason why any modern architect worth their salt doesn't use them and that's because they will break easily in an earthquake because stone is brittle (it cracks with enough stress). Flexible, but strong materials are preferred.
@@sor3999that's the neat thing: we have no earthquakes in Brazil
Pessoal em alguns lugares tem que viver numas casas que parecem gaiolas e prisões pra não serem assaltadas, pior que construir pra terremoto
Iirc, the glass strategy became illegal here in Brazil but some old houses never removed theirs lol @@josem588
In Western Australia all houses have brick interior walls and double brick exterior walls. But that is due to the HUGE clay pits near Perth
Exactly, we all use what resources are abundant but also what is appropriate. The USA is very big and has many different climates and frequent natural disasters which need different standards. For example super thick brick homes won't do well with strong earthquakes like they have on the west coast. But of course we have many brick homes on the east coast where it's colder and there are hurricanes. Not brick interior walls but brick all around the outside.
Perth is a sand pit, not a clay pit.
In Melbourne, a lot of homes are built exactly the same as American ones.
@@ExternalInputs True lots of sand. That is why we are called sandgropers but there are huge clay pits east of Perth in an area called Midland. You may have heard of midland bricks?
And this is little john's house's walls. It us made with eco friendly wood veneers and galvanized square steel all fastened with screws borrowed from his aunt and can last upto 10000 years
NO! NNNOOOO THATS VILE I NEVER WANTED TO SEE THIS B.S AGAIN 😂😂😂
Not little John's house's😂😂😂😂😂
The house is also 3 square meters, so small it doesn’t even fit his grandmother’s coffin
@@ASoggyFrootLoop3 square meters is big bro 😂
Nah its 0m²
In the caribbean we use concrete blocks for our houses. The only place you will find drywall on a framework is for ceilings.
It makes me think of the Three Little Pigs. In Europe, the houses are made of bricks. In Texas, my state, they are made out of sticks. And apparently, in Arizona , they are made of straw.
Straw bale construction (not to be confused with how some fire risk houses used to be stuffed with hay, that rots or attracts insects) can be solid structurally, if done well.
It's very hard to use legally in most places, as it's a form of trade art not reflected in most engineering standards, and so nearly impossible to design in ways qualifying for a building permit, CO, mortgage, or insurance, in most places with common building codes.
Sorr of thing you can do when the entire western world doesn't have to put you down every other generation.
@@lokiva8540 there have been several projects of those houses in Germany as far as I know, even apartment houses several storeys high, made out of wood and insulated with straw. Still to be built they need to be up to code otherwise tje permits would never go through
@@ulhi7564 Straw bale construction has very thick walls, and uses densely packed bales, usually with some things like windows and doors framed with wood, and stucco and wet plaster outer and inner finishes, as the actual structural walls. They end up self-insulating.
As we've seen in Cy's reports, not just visual grade #2 SPF or fir, but truss members with 1650-2400 MSR lumber, can be worthless when plates aren't installed right, or shipping or reckless framing damages it. But, they have nice blueprints, and legal certifications that used to be based on book tables and slide rules, these days on software fill in the blanks that engineers sign off on. Straw bales are an art and have no such criteria, and so all projects I'm aware of using them are rural, no mortgage, and in counties without strict building codes.
Generally people using straw bales are working for their own homes, and learn enough to use that oddball method, after having sorted out where they can legally do so.... and so they're not likely to pull the kinds of truss damage seen on Cy's videos, but are conscientious.
The overwhelming majority of houses I've seen in Texas are brick. You go to cities and they're steel and concrete
Except US houses; all countries’s houses are build using bricks and concrete
Mostly because of the natural disasters. In Cali we used to have 10 ft block walls surrounding our property but a lot changed because of the big earthquake in 94 so code says no more than 6 ft now. I'm assuming everything else got updated too. I know we can't good carpet because apparently it's extremely flammable.
Japan say hi
My house in America is built with brick and granite. The granite walls are 22" thick. Brick is only 14" tho 🤔
Even in some US states, especially in the east its more common to build brick houses.
@@PeglegStudio Brother did you build a castle??
Surprisingly, older American houses were in fact made similarly to German (or European) ones. It was only relatively recently that they started being built with cheap stuff like drywall. In fact, you'll see that brick homes are far more common in the eastern US due to early settlers in the 17th-19th century (the west came later, and much more sparse). Pretty cool, and some of the towns are definitely worth a trip east.
Actually, most American houses of the 17th and 18th centuries are made of timber frames, wattle-and-daub infill, and sometimes a face of wood paneling. (Brick houses were only for the very wealthy.) In fact the was true of European house in the Middle Ages and Renaissance as well. Europeans turned to cement because they used up most of their virgin timber by 1700. And then, of course, they destroyed many old homes in one of their endless wars they enjoy so much.
I thought it was built like that for insulation
Same in Korea, our apartments built in the 90's can double up as a temporary bunker/machine gun nest (yes some apt located in Seoul across the Han river were designed such with murder holes/machine gun nests in mind) but the one's built after 2020's are just Styrofoam buildings)
You build with what you have the most of, North America has more trees than rocks.
And something tells me it's only such a percentage that German houses are built like this. I'd bet all newer commercial European buildings are built with steel or wood framing and drywall. It's purely a waste of space and a plumbing/electrical nightmare to have walls that thick
Drywall is better for insulation than brick and plaster. Saves on energy costs and all, and will certainly stand forever if properly maintained.
Countries vary for many reasons. As to how it's talked about varies due to those with either a positive outlook or a negative one.
When I build in west Virginia, it's 2x6, with 5/8s drywall on all exterior walls. With a full brick facade. With non- formaldehyde insulation I install myself.
I'm with you on all that. Please enlighten me as to the formaldehyde insulation though..... if you would. I'm se mi
@@thefinalgrindolder insulations contain formaldehyde, which "off gasses" over time and is carcinogenic. Best to avoid living in a regular source of it.
formaldehyde insulation has always been illegal.
My company usually puts plywood on the exterior
@@redcell9636 In the 70s because of the off gassing,
Yup thats why when tornado hits, suburban houses are like note books shredded in blender
It doesn’t make financial sense to build with reinforced concrete in the US, at least for a house, commercial buildings and apartments are often concrete though.
It's damn near impossible to build a structure that can withstand a tornado.
Building something that's easy to rebuild is much more sensible.
@@m0nkEz As far as I remember, The Venus Project developed a tornado safe house design. Round with a cone shaped roof. Whether it really works, I don't know.
As someone who's seen the aftermath of a brick school decimated after a tornado hit--I do NOT, ever, want to be in a house made of brick or concrete when a tornado hits. O.o
The thought actually makes me feel bad in the stomach. I'll take a wood house made if paper and air with an underground shelter any day.
You have no idea how powerful a tornado really is, do you?
I live in a tornado prone area in the US and our walls have to be brick and/or concrete. The interior walls are the thin drywall, which makes hanging art and changing house layout cheap and efficient. Drywall isn't as flimsy as it sounds here! It's just less resistant to punctures than large pressures and is very brittle.
Drywall is fire retardant, that’s the main reason why it is used. I would highly doubt that any building these days unless it’s a historical structure is being structurally supported by brick. Brick exteriors are typically one layer thick and anchored to the frame of the building; it somewhat protects the outside but is majorly decorative.
However, buildings in your area may require a few steel or concrete columns to prevent it from entirely collapsing if it is struck by debris.
and it also makes you hear your dog fart from the other room lmao xd it's awful and i can't believe how much you pay to live in a cardboard box in the us xd
Grew up in Kansas. Almost every house was wood frame with siding.
Live in Florida now. Still lots of wood frame, but more steel frame with newer builds. Still plaster or siding on outside.
British houses are misy aerated concrete inner walls, brick outer walls with 50 to 75mm insulated cavity between. Structural internal walls are blockwork. Non structural are timber frame studding and plasterboard.
Best of both IMO.
Does this include the areas where hurricanes are common? 😬
It's made of paper, determination and Willpower
Paper, hopes and dreams
@@meteoro123OF paper and Determination
A lot of people are from Europe and seem to be getting the wrong idea. The walls are mostly made of wood. The “paper” is surprisingly hard and is just a cover for interior walls. Outside walls are brick, wood, or other weather resistant materials.
1 fart will still break it down xD
and walls in america is made for temperature isolation in Canada the temperature can be -30°C to 30°C so we need a wall that the exterior cold or heat cannot enter inside
Just bcz paper is made out of wood, doesn't mean you can call paper walls "mostly wood" lol. You can't put a pen through wood
@@meelia4593they are made of mostly wood. The paper he put the pen through was not a wall
@@meelia4593try reading. They said the paper is "a cover," meaning there's stuff under that paper. Wtf do you think would be under that paper if they said it's "mostly wood?"
In Puerto Rico, houses walls are concrete blocks put together with concrete and reinforced concrete columns and some walls are reinforced concrete, you need serious tools to change inside configurations and if you need to open a wall facing the outdoor you need serious tools and is going to cost.
Im from there too and ur right, Even wood walls are covered by wood on THE inside
😂 do one on shoddy Aussie walls
WiFi hates German walls 😂
That's why we have paper walls here in the US. Welcome to the Surveillance State! Your Wifi creates and field that can be read and used to identify everything in every room of your house, including you.
Brick, block and lead (in paint) all block Wifi. They aren't actually worried about you eating paint chips, that was what they said to get rid of lead.
@@mysticmadman5961yes, I’m sure that’s exactly why the whole country started using thinner walls… get a grip you dork
I think someone's eaten too many paint chips.👆
@@mysticmadman5961 if you're going to go around spitting facts try to come off less insane
@@mysticmadman5961 then dont get fucking wifi... lol simple as that. No one had wifi at one point and houses were already built like that. Cox gives you internet without wifi and good luck trying to get a modem with it without paying over 100 bucks.
I live in Asia and have brick walls. When watching American shows as a kid, I tried to punch a hole into the wall like in the show.
I learned that lesson real fast.
Yeah, don't do that lol. I will say though, the walls are easy to fix if you do punch a hole in them. We got lucky and got an old house that still has brick walls, and since we live in tornado country, I feel much safer now lol.
@@cthulucalamari2448why isn’t there any regulation that allows only brick or cement buildings to be built in tornado zones?
Every year in the news I see houses crushed during hurricane season, just fix the problem already!😂
@@fredericoduvel3092 brick and cement won't stop a tornado. it'll just mean you have to dodge bricks and cement chunks when the tornado picks up your neighbor's house and tosses it onto yours.
@fredericoduvel3092 Basements for tornado zones. Hurricanes will still flood you out. Honestly not sure if just brick and cement would really help with severe weather.
@@nyanSynxPHOENIXit would if it’s properly reinforced and foundations are made
U don’t see big corporate buildings toppling down do u?
I also live in a cyclone prone areas and we have been through super cyclones since 90s and it’s still standing
I think most houses in Western Europe are built like German's. At least in italy we have solid brick houses too
Not in the UK.
Why limit to W Europe, it's the same everywhere in Europe.
In Poland too.
even more hard in the east and southeast
@@ivana5240 No, it's not the same everywhere in Europe.
I mean, I do live in Alaska, and specifically I live in the Ring of Fire, so thankfully building codes are very strict. Yes, most houses here are made of wood, and yes, for small houses, wood construction is superior to brick and mortar when it comes to withstanding earthquakes due to wood’s flexibility and when it comes to efficient R-values for insulating against the winter weather. But as for the majority of newly-constructed homes in America, and for some of the houses up here that are not in fact built to that code, the economic inflation we’ve seen under Biden/Harris Presidential policies has certainly… “encouraged” corners to not just be cut but to be completely skipped altogether.
No wonder houses be flying when storm hits lol
Yeah would you rather houses crumble apart during a tornado or whole brick walls flying. These decisions to build north american houses are specifically designed for the weather conditions we face over here
@@MrPsyren99found the angry American here
@@MrPsyren99 I think I saw a turnado once hit a brick house... It didn't budge so I don't really get it?!
@@MentallyheldI mean he has a point, I dont want bricks flying around in a tornado
@@ibtissempharm8800Depends on how strong the tornado is. An F1 or F2 isn't going to do anything to a brick house, but brick homes become rubble in EF4s.
Schools in America are often built out of brick, ar least partially if not fully. And I have seen schools with a brick wall knocked out or even just completely demolished.
As an Australian I was also always confused by the going through walls joke lmao
I saw a movie where someone punched through a wall as a kid, and you can guess what happened next.
My wrist hurt for the next two weeks.
Homes are also built with drywall and wood framing in Australia so what are you taking about? Also insulation requirements in AU suck. A few years ago homes didn’t even require insulation and double pane windows
@@miles5600 I don't know if Australia changed their building method but the wall right next to me is DEFINITELY not drywall.
This is the reason why it was SO hard to sleep when I came to the US. I was SO not used to hearing the upstairs neighbor's every move.
Preventable.
@@MariuszChr Elaborate.
@@spicynips8466 there are methods of construction and materials to make it quiet. Using screws instead of nails, glue, double framing, mass mats, mineral wool...
@@MariuszChr Im sorry, do you think I just came over here and built an apartment?
@@spicynips8466 pardon? You wanted me to elaborate
How many tornadoes do you get there to?
In Germany we have something called Gartenhaus. It’s not a real house just for the garden like a hobby. You don’t stay or live there. Or camping houses, for Holliday or the poorest. Took me years to understand American houses are like our garden houses.
As a German I never understood how houses in the us burn fast like paper. Break easy and rip off at storms. Why a car crashes into a house like how😮 crash my house I’ll look out the window and call an ambulance for you and just continue my dinner. How does the police just break doors open and stuff. 😅
Later I came to see how cheap their house are manufactured like all wood and paper. That’s why people can crash through the roof😅
Yeah I'm in SW Europe and I saw a bus crash into a house a few months ago. The home owner was livid but his house was still completely intact (brick and stone walls 60cm thick). The bus..not so much 😂
To be fair, if we built like you did hurricanes and tornadoes would be a LOT more lethal than they already are. Brick walls become shotgun projectiles in those kinds of storms. Being inside of most brick buildings is a nigh death sentence as the building WILL come down on you more often than not.
It may help in Blizzard conditions...for a bit. See one problem with solid brick walls it it makes piss poor insulation. When you have 4-8 feet of snow against your outer walls and you lack that insulation layer (which is what the air layer in the wall really is) the wall chills and the chill enters the house. If you have an insulation layer this effect takes a LOT of time and just a bit of decent warmth in the house is enough to prevent the chill from entering. This is thermodynamics.
In heat it is worse for Europe. The sun beats on the brick building and heats up your walls, radiating that heat through your house. We have that nice buffer zone in the insulation area that allows our homes to be cooler in the summer, add to it the fact air conditioning is COMMON over here and that insulation layer works even better. I find it insane any place can claim to be civilized or advanced if air conditioning is not standard in buildings and cars. Many areas have noticed the increase in elderly dying from heat stroke in the past few years since that specific thing has been tracked, which has at least some local level governments in Europe looking at making air conditioning available and cheap for homes. Many American and Canadian retailers have been contacted regarding that in recent years for installer help and the like. The shock in their voices and on their faces when you casually mention punching a hole through a wall is always priceless. Y'all are really scared of altering your homes in big ways to make life better for some reason.
The US sees storms and weather patterns on levels most of Europe just doesn't understand.
@@Nempo13you are wrong on so many levels lol
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@@Nempo13
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Now we need an American Wall vs China Tofu Dreg Wall comparison
The walls in my appartment are literally 1 meter thick.
Now you understand why their houses get ripped apart in only 70 mph winds. Here in EU it's nothing XD
I've never seen a house get destroyed by 70mph winds.
bcs african immigrants build it
And then you guys call 20C a heat wave lol
*dies in heat wave*
The way you just hopped on this app and lied.
Yet I can still hear my loud neighbours in my old German apartment
I always get reminded of this difference, whenever I watch home renovation DIYs where they just break down some walls, cut out a little window etc.
That won't be happening when we start renovating.
Your German Landlord would sue you or something. Greetings from Berlin
We do love renovations! Drywall is handy for that.
And it's plenty durable enough for regular use. Only needs a little maintenance every 50-ish years to stay looking new.
Fr
Besides that it’s actually dangerous to remove brick walls, because you never know how much load they carry unless you are a structural engineer, otherwise you always have to consult one, because if you just remove walls mindlessly the entire building can potentially collapse. Just informing you as a civil engineer 👷
Our walls are mostly gypsum. Ive been in a gypsum mine to do electrical work, its actually pretty cool stuff and used in a lot more than just sheetrock, mostly insulated soundproof flooring. Sheetrock walls also withstand the more aggressive weather we get, especially tornadoes. Youd think a 10 inch brick wall could withstand one, but history with edwardian brick archetecture and tornadoes here shows they crumble pretty easily.
There is also benefits to sheetrock walls such as better insulation, ease of repair, and space to change any wires or plumbing you need to access in there. I do adore brick architecture, it looks so pretty. Hope whoever reads this enjoyed the infodump
Looks pretty? It lasts 100s of years.... you just all got sold short for $$$'s.
@@ruzziasht349 brick is not good for earthquakes
@@toolbaggersyeah it is…. It’s fine. Aslong as you put shock dampeners in to disperse the shock wave. I lived in a country that has regular earthquakes. House where will built from brick mate they just didn’t use cement mortar…
@@toolbaggers did you tell the Japanese? They have bigger earthquakes and their homes are earthquake proof.
St Louis area is full of very solid German built brick homes. The walls are not gypsum but plaster and lathe. They are typically older but functional and beautiful and found in the city. I owned one and it always reminded me of Hansel and Gretl’s home.
PS St Louis sits at the tip of the New Madrid fault line. It’s been dormant for over 100 years but it’s one of the worst fault lines in the country.
Depending on location in America, SOME walls are thicker and bricked up. It largely depends on the local climate, age of the building, and the development of the area.
Sometimes, the walls are wood, and hollow.
Nothing to do with climate, stone and brick walls are cool it hot climates, and warm in cold climates. You've just been sold short, it's why the USA is the most medicated population on the planet and also the most morbidly obese Western country in the world. No one cares, except for the $$$$'s.
An indian here, homes are built from bricks and cement/ concrete. I dont under most of American funny drunk disasters that i see on sm!
I can’t understand why Americans don’t build with bricks and concrete when hurricanes and tornadoes hit them every year.
Because that's expensive, and the only thing any American actually cares about is money.
@@shootaman2Isn't it more expensive to rebuild after a tornado has totally demolished your paper house?
@@NicolasCharlyIt creates jobs and the financial world love the concept of growth.
People move every 5 years and don't stay for long. They have no use of long lasting buildings.
That's why I bought a 75 year old house with plaster and bricks new construction sux
German civil engineer here ✌🏼
One big reason for the shown difference is that in Germany, private houses are built to last for decades, or even centuries in some cases. The people building them often want to pass them down to their kids or grandkids. Houses stay in the family for generations. While the interior gets updated every now and then, the exterior often keeps its traditional look or gets upgraded for better energy efficiency.
On the other hand, in the US, the building culture is way more flexible and volatile. Outside of the luxury real estate market, the value is more about the property itself. People build for the present. When they pass the house down, it's not uncommon for the next generation to tear it down and build something new. So, private houses don’t need to last as long and are often made with lighter materials.
@@StationZeroOne I’m sorry, but it’s not at all common for the next generation to tear down a house and build a new one. That only happens if a neighborhood is becoming gentrified and a new owner (not one who inherited the house) wants a bigger, more expensive house. 90% of the US housing market is existing homes, btw.
People don’t pass houses on to the next generation because Americans frequently have to move for jobs. It’s pretty common for families to end up spread out over the entire country by the 2nd generation. My house was built in 1925, btw, and we are the 5th owners. As far as I’ve been able to determine, the house was never passed on to a family member. The previous owners moved to Florida. We’ve lived in it for 40 years and when we leave it we won’t literally pass it on to our son because he lives an hour’s drive away because of his job.
Buddy, timber framed houses can last for centuries. The oldest one in the US is coming up on 400 years. My hometown is filled with homes built in the 19th and even 18th centuries. The vast majority are timber framed with lathe and plaster walls (some swapped over to wallboard) and will be there in another 100 years despite being right in the path of hurricanes (and the occasional earthquake) for all that time
@@Alex-dh2cx interesting. I’ve seen centuries-old timber-framed houses in England but I didn’t know there were any that old in the US. You do mean timber-framed and not just wood construction? From your description it sounds like they are in the coastal Southeast, perhaps?
Even where I am (upper Midwest) there are plenty of stick-built wood frame houses dating to the late 19th century. Heck, fortunes were made in the lumbering industry in Michigan in the mid to late 19th century providing the wood for houses in the Northeast.
@@timmotz2827 yeah, cut lumber built into a frame, and they're all up and down the east coast. I believe the oldest would be in Massachusetts, New England area in general really, where you'll find a number of homes built prior to the foundation of the US, but we've got some fairly old ones in the South as well.
I think it’s because he’s in Arizona where houses are made out of wood and paper so they’re not death traps during earthquakes. Most of west coast and midlands use this formula
P-cola Florida USA here, my exterior walls are concrete block but interior is wood frame and mason board. Built in 1953. My husband swears the block absorbs heat all day then radiates it back out and that is why the ac cannot keep up with the heat and doesn't cool down til 9 pm
Your husband is right, stone and concrete doesn't insulate as well as air trapped between walls. Old homes like that are harder to insulate
Insulation skill issue
@@Alex-dh2cxSpanish houses are made of Stones and concrete but in the summer heat they are very cool.
So there is something wrong in your construction.
@@fbabarbe430 no, you're right, physics just work differently in Spain, where stone is a better insulation than trapped air.
To be fair, American homes are as sturdy as they generally need to be. Extreme weather is exceedingly rare in most places.
I almost spit out my drink. The hell, Arizona, yall don't have any weather down there other than "hot"?
I've got tornados every other day.
Yeah basically its hot as hell for 4 months, then the other 8 months are amazing. A handful of storms per year, some of them are "intense" but just a few trees knocked down here and there.
As far as the walls this guy is talking about, yes real estate in AZ is becoming horrible. A lot of it is due to private equity companies purchasing all of the livable land and Californians moving here and trying to convert Phoenix/Scottsdale into a mini Cali. I would be kinda concerned about a house with thick brick walls though. I feel like that would boil me with the summer heat, but I dont know enough about materials in building and thermal insulation to refute or confirm anything.
You here in OK too? 😂
It would still be better to have a well insulated house even in AZ
@@annak804 I actually did some research on this after posting my comment. I also talked to my cousin who has an older brick house in AZ. Being well-insulated is partially separate from the actual material. A poorly insulated brick house would literally be an oven and bricks or concrete are actually pretty bad to use here in AZ because it is more difficult to insulate against the extreme heat.
I am curious what the middle ground is though because paper thin walls obviously aren't good... Granted, we don't have extreme weather storms of any kind here so it doesn't exactly need any real weather proofing at least.
It is only hot, there is only hot, you are not allowed to feel anything other than hot. I am going insane
according to code in german construction, outside walls are required to be 36cm thick (the raw brick wall without any insulating layers that is) a structural inside wall is 24cm thick, and walls that only divide rooms but without any structural neccessity are 11cm thick.
so the wall the guy measures in the beginning must be structural wall.
responding to comments about wifi coverage: yes it's more difficult to get wifi throughout the entire house, but since in most regions in germany we don't even have highspeed internet/fibreoptic cable, you wouldn't even notice wether your internetvis slow due to bad wifi signal or just because you have the bandwidth of a early 90s 56k modem, or your ISP just sucks.
How is there not high speed internet available everywhere in Germany? I’m not talking shit I genuinely don’t understand.
I live in an extremely rural part of America. A place so rural there’s probably nothing like it in Germany. And even here I have gigabit fiber(and I could get a business line of like 10 gig if I wanted but I don’t need that obviously), we switched from dial-up to some actually decent high speed internet back in like 2002.
@@charlesbrown4483 politics. i don't know the exact details, but at some point in the late 80s/early 90s some politician signed a contract with the post (which was also the phone company, and to a certain point in time a state owned entity, but i think at that point it was already converted to a private business) wherein copper cables would be subsidized with taxes, and the then more expensive technology wouldn't. so all the infrastructure was tax subsidized, but with old tech. to a certain point in time in tze early 00s this was sufficient, and hardly anyone complained, since dial up worked, and isdn also worked. only few households were ordering dsl internet connection, which was up to 3000mbit back then. so there was not yet enough incentive to invest to renew the infrastructure. it was slept on for 3 decades basically. and all the governements since, be it conservative led, social democrat led or a coalition of both, always had the promise in their campaigns to take care of the problem, but hardly anything was done, and because of the ginormous amount of bureaucracy that goes into EVERY building project, be it a garden shed on your own propert, that requires premission, or anything else, things move suuuuper slowly here.
in recent years the stuff became even more complicated. some regions get fibreoptic internet from several private companies now (not the previously state owned Telekom/T-Mobile etc.) all this does now is having construction sites, the roads in front of peoples houses torn open every 2 years, so another company can route a cable underground, blow or on top of 3 other companies cables. it's an absolute mess. and more rural regions besides not getting fast internet, often also do not have mobile phone reception. the mobile phone situation is even worse than the high speed internet situation.
@@charlesbrown4483 may not be the best explanation, but basically, there was a monopoly on internet access for a long time, so they never bothered to get better. also, there were (and still are) a lot of old farts in charge, who didn't believe that investing in good internet was necessary. so unfortunately us germans now have some of the most expensive, yet at the same time worst internet in all of europe :')
like, only NOW are they bothering to slowly put out fiber connections, and even then, it's very slow and you often have to pay for the construction yourself, and if not, internet access is still gonna cost a whole lot
euuumm.... Have you ever heard about router nodes? 2 or 3 or how many you gotdamn need to get the coverage in how many and which room you want. No need to send signal through a whole building.
The funny thing is that we also build houses out of concrete too. In hurricane prone regions like Florida. But we mainly build based on climate. It wouldn’t make sense to build a concrete house in an area that gets no hurricanes because you’d be overbuilding. Wood is pretty good and when used with proper sheathing like plywood and OSB it can last quite a while.
The funny part is that you mostly build based on prices, concrete is better but most people can’t afford cause the same constructors made the prices so insanely high it’s not worth it, convincing everyone that some paper is better
@@xavigc5642 thats just for areas that are not prone to environmental hazard and America love to make money so it is
@@xavigc5642How is concrete better?
@@xavigc5642 it’s wood not paper. Two completely different materials with different purposes. One is structural and strong, one is better for drawing on.
@@xavigc5642Eurotrash still can’t understand every state has different regulations and weather conditions lol
You did not try the French walls yet 😅
People really aren’t accepting that there’s pros and cons to both, and it’s not just a money factor
It is just a money factor tho
@@poo48your stupid
@@poo48 …and the other factors that isn’t money
German walls are superior no doubt about it
@@horohousu unless you're trying to survive extreme heat, or earthquakes, etc.
yeah no, my house was built in the 50s and when we had to get our bathroom redone there was wood, concrete, chicken wire, and plaster. they wanted this house to STAND lolol
Wait: There was chicken?
Walls in India are also made out of bricks, cement and plaster...as a kid I used to be amazed when they would just punch a hole in the wall...it took me years to realise how that was possible 😂😂😂
India has tons of timber houses
Indian building standards are no where near Western European standards. Not all brick houses are made equally.
Ya everything urs is good our is bad no matter actually it is good or bad 😂😂😂 @@creepingdread88
Japanese walls next
No wonder why ghosts in horror movies live in American walls.
Paraguayan here, we have the same types of houses built with bricks and cement, although lately the cost of bricks is very high so they are being built with "hollow bricks" and cement, still quite rigid and durable.
Same in Italy, the wolf of the three little pigs would have a lot of trouble :D
Did we all not get the same 3 little pigs for bed time story? Big bad wolf definitely huffing and puffing those walls down