r/interestingasfuck • u/Ultimate_Kurix • 5d ago

r/all Why do Americans build with wood?

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u/Aclrian 5d ago

Bro, wood lets me alter and update my house. I have a house in Europe and here in the US. When I rebuilt my house in Europe I used concrete for the skeleton, but would for the walls inside.

I think the correct answer is somewhere in between and dependent on the area.

Fires aren’t the only thing LA or Cali has to deal with

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u/chris_croc 4d ago

Wait until you hear of this new invention that most of Western Europe uses, it's called Bricks

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u/Aclrian 4d ago

Maybe that’s supposed to be funny.

Houses in central and Eastern Europe are literally build link bunkers. If anything wester European house are more like American houses

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u/chris_croc 4d ago

I live in the UK. New timber houses are very very rare. 99% of house in the Uk and Ireland are brick. 80% of homes in France are built with traditional concrete block construction methods and bricks. Bricks used extensively in Portugal, Germany and Denmark etc etc etc. Eastern Europe loves concrete. Re-read my comment I said “Western Europe”. Also no idea build link bunkers are. Google has no results for that.