The perfect dish
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Lucky for Europe then that it's not on major fault lines
Which is why stone construction was possible there
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it looks pretty strong and flexible
Compared to steel? I would recommend you check your eyesight.
It's also labor intensive, and has plenty of durability problems. Also, worst of all, there is a huge amount of problems that can weaken it but are completely invisible once you finish your walls. Problems that happen often, because of that labor intensity.
Well i mean we're talking houses here, not record-breaking high-rise buildings.
As for issues with structural wood... Tbh they're pretty rare. Probably more common than, say, the steel in your walls rusting or something, but still, not to a worrisome degree.
The main one is insects. Water (leading to mould) is also a thing but water infiltrations are terrible news no matter the material so...
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What makes wood unfit for structure? I don't know much about buildings, but it looks pretty strong and flexible to me?
Racism and an incessant need to feel superior to others no matter what.
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Why not? Pretty much everything except the roof structure is made of bricks. My house is entirely bricks; an outer and an inner wall separated by a gap with insulation, with a wooden skeleton for the roof secured to the brick walls. All interior walls are either made of bricks (the originals built with the house in the 60's) or aerated concrete blocks (added in a refurbishing later in the 00's).
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I’m jealous of how seismically stable the area you live is.
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Racism and an incessant need to feel superior to others no matter what.
The European way
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Nothing.
This person is kinda saying nonsense.
Wood is perfectly sound for structural building.
There are wooden temples in Japan dating back to the 6th(7th?) century.
A stone structure would have been shook apart by now.
Different materials have different use cases.
To clarify for people who don't know: japan has a shit ton of earthquakes.
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To clarify for people who don't know: japan has a shit ton of earthquakes.
They use the metric system so I believe it’s a shit tonne
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They use the metric system so I believe it’s a shit tonne
Right but for earthquakes the global standard is imperial. Nobody uses metric, except the french during the paris commune, the kingdom of hawaii, and mongolia.
Maaaaaybe north korea and cuba, but definitely not vietnam; it was a whole thing in the 80s.
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Right but for earthquakes the global standard is imperial. Nobody uses metric, except the french during the paris commune, the kingdom of hawaii, and mongolia.
Maaaaaybe north korea and cuba, but definitely not vietnam; it was a whole thing in the 80s.
Oh my mistake you are obviously more well versed, I will only refer to earthquakes by their shit-tonnage from here on out
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Oh my mistake you are obviously more well versed, I will only refer to earthquakes by their shit-tonnage from here on out
Not the individual earthquakes, but the quantity of them
I don't know shit about individual earthquakes.
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I’m jealous of how seismically stable the area you live is.
Bricks crumble, wood flex.
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Is the fact that homie looks like he's undead supposed to be part of the joke?
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Brick does really badly in earthquakes, at least without major reinforcing. 'Unreinforced masonry' can be fatal pretty easily.
Brick veneer over timber framing can be a thing.
Makes a great gift, though.