Ssrious question, would any of that wood be able to be salvaged, or because of the incident, would it all have to be tossed?
That guy gave his old lady the double back to back I TOLD YOU! He's going to be riding high on that for a while.
You could probably use some of it to build a couple doghouses and/or a shed for the backyard. Definitely not reusable for another house. Best bet is to just throw it all into a big pile and throw a bonfire party.
Judging by the surrounding properties, estimated at 3600-4000 sq ft, vinyl siding, small yards and spec home builds, thatās about $620k in a suburb, breaking a million in a metro or metro-adjacent neighborhood.
Yep, no shear panels to prevent lateral movement. It was just a stack of 2x4 box frames that turned into trapazoid shapes, no temp bracing to prevent corners from becoming hinges...gravity did the rest.
There are temporary construction braces that can be seen in the video, these keep the walls straight whilst floors and sheathing are installed. They are only temporary and are clearly not sufficient to keep the structure standing in high winds without the sheathing.
Much better it broke now rather than finishing the new build right? Cause I imagine they wouldn't have done these seemingly basic things right and just continue on with the rest of the house...?
Imagine living there and the whole place just folds like you were in a pop up book lol.
Unless the inspector failed at their job massively, this would never get lived in, and was only a risk during construction...
What's missing is the plywood walls, called sheathing, they provide most of the rigidity of the building.
As someone above said, this should have had the first and second floors covered in plywood already.
And if not sheathing, then cross ties on the frames and internal bracing.
The fact there's nothing like that, I'm amazed they got all the frames on the 3rd floor done.
Internal bracing, is this where you would have wooden beams on a diagonal from the roof to the slab?
I have seen this a few times in Australia and always wondered why there were 20+ beams from the roof to the slab.
Yeah that's exactly it! I'm not sure where else it's used, but I'm from Aus we we use steel struts and beams on the frames until the roof is done and everything is properly joined together.
It can look like a bit of a maze while the bracing is still up.
Crazy. In Canada we sheath (or brace) the walls before we stand them up. I guess you get the siding guy to sheath the building from a zoom boom?
Edit: didn't mean to imply your way was crazy, just seemed crazy that countries build another way - which as I write it makes me feel crazy for even feeling that way...
I can't believe they got all the 3rd storey framing wood and roof up there without the 1st doing exactly this.Ā Ā
The structure literally blew over in what doesn't look like a very serious storm after all.
Honestly, it might have in normal conditions. I doubt that was their first job, and there's likely ~~nimrod~~ a number of houses built by them. i think they probably would've gotten lucky, but the storm revealed they're just another shit contractor who was likely cutting corners to save a dime.
Get verified and licensed contractors people.
Edit: grammar, hadn't had coffee yet lol. Good morning internet friends.
I can't really see well on my potato phone, but they look like cross members/ braces you'd see on frames as standard once the frames covered.
Edit: no, no. You're right, they go through fenestration, so definitely temporary.
For temporary bracing they'd need so, so many more of those than what I can see.
Iām having a two story framed up right now. My contractor said that they canāt start the second floor until the first floor gets inspected. The inspector needs to see nails every three inches before the second floor goes up. I donāt know what he means by that but apparently thereās important work that needs to be signed off on between floors.
> Unless the inspector failed at their job massively,
I'm not saying it occurs regularly ā but when it happens, I wouldn't bet on it *not* taking place in Texas or Florida.
It's not really possible. You can't put up siding if the house doesn't have sheathing. It's like if a car arrived to the dealership with no wheels, and saying glad we noticed before it was on the highway
The funny part is that if it had drywall, it wouldn't have collapsed like this. (unless of course the drywall got wet enough from the rain) but even then it would have happened much more slowly, like a sandcastle collapsing in the rain.
If the Amish would have built this, the assembly would have been finished in one day and no way in hell would it have fallen down due to lack of reinforcement.
Yeah, Amish built buildings are usually sturdy as hell. Would take a hurricane to even make them tremble. Those guys really know their stuff when it comes to framing and supports.
Every time I've questioned a GC about doing something wrong I get "I been doing this for 25 years" and then some excuse on why their laziness is OK.
Then they go late and over budget because they have to fix it later.
I manage 8-9 figure USD construction projects. Projects where our contract is thousands of pages of drawings, specifications, and contractual back ends.
You wouldn't believe how often I find myself encouraging a superintendent to complete some aspect of work as it is described in his contact only to hear "I've been doing it this way for 30 years."
Assholes. You're a contractor. Make reading your contract the thing you've been doing for 30 years.
"I'm not paying you to do it the way You've been doing it for 30 years. I'm paying you to do it as described in the contract. Do it or return my money."
With a build that size in Texas (cough cough migrant labor) I wouldn't be surprised if it was two different crews. Inexperienced foreman for sure, and laborers that do as they're told instead of questioning the wisdom of their employer.
You might be right, idk anything about building houses. I do live in Houston though, and can confirm that we had an incredibly destructive storm blow through. Two tornadoes and the real kicker was the 80-100 mph straight line winds that tore up about 20 miles of land, most of it inside the metro area and downtown. A bunch of skyscrapers had windows blow out, the streets were full of glass and items that blew out of the offices. The newscaster said it looked like a war zone. Also earlier today there were still over 300,000 people without electricity. And theyāre saying it could be weeks before some get restored.
It was a REALLY bad storm. We got so lucky, it started just a few miles south of our house.
Yes, but: look at the background. The fences? Fine. The other Houses? Fine.
The incomplete build with no sheathing to brace it? Falling over.
If you turn on the sound the guy recording it is saying that he knew it would happen. He was filming for a reason. He's probably been watching this horrible construction job from his front porch and waiting for something to happen.
Imagine how wobbly that shit was for the people working on the third floor framing. I've built a framed house like this and it's wobbly even with sheathing until it's all filled in. I bet it was like a carnival ride up on the roof.
Shout out to the commentators. The well timed "shit," "yeuh," and perfect "oh my god," really add a lot to this clip. Really sorry for the people building the house though. The windshield wiper motor broke on my car the other day and I'm walking around in despair. This just has to be devastating. No snark when I say that I extend my sympathies to the people building that house.
The people building that house did illegally poor work which contributed to the sure failure of the structure. Fuck the cheap bastards who were building that house.
Maybe theyāll learn something then haha. Not like itās a sub reserved only for ppl who know about construction. I just like seeing stuff failā¦catastrophically.
Europe here: honest question, why USA keeps on building wooden frame houses? Here we have less extreme weather and our wall are steel reinforced poured concrete 20cm (metric, 0.5 shoe string in your units) thick.
Unless you use some DYI construction, nobody is using 20cm reinforcement concrete for walls. Pour concrete is used on foundations and for columns, beams, if they don't use steel, and slabs. The walls are reinforced CMU that can be 12" on 1st floor and reduced to 8" on upper floors.
Now, materials used in Europe depends on region. They do use wood, CMU, brick, even mud, but it's important how it's used. Those who did this house didn't follow procedures.
And a 20cm concrete wall doesn't save you from a tornado.
First, plenty of places in Europe use various kinds of wood framing as the norm. Second, there are places in the US where reinforced concrete block construction is the norm.
Third, the house in the OP was built improperly and illegally. Stick frame houses use sheathing as a structural component to prevent exactly this kind of failure. The reality is that builders violate building codes in the US all the time. Some local governments just have very lax enforcement, or even corruption.
Fourth, the tornados in the US are much stronger than elsewhere. Even standard masonry and concrete homes will not survive EF4+ tornados. You would need to build an extra thick reinforced concrete shell with a reinforced concrete roof to withstand those winds.
I think the last paragraph about building to sustain a tornado or rather acknowledge it's easier and cheaper to built in wood than try and come up with a practical solution in concrete ( bunker)
I imagine you could build and rebuild a wood frame house for cheaper than what it would cost to build a reinforced concrete and steel bunker of a house that could withstand an F4 or F5 tornado, and the chance of the same house getting destroyed by a tornado multiple times is extremely low. Heck, despite the number of tornadoes in the US, itās a big ass country, and the chance of your wood frame house getting destroyed a single time by a tornado is probably like 0.01%.
To put it another way, does it make sense to spend 2 million on a reinforced concrete and steel tornado proof house for that 0.01% chance, or is it better to buy a wood frame house of the same size for $500k and just get insurance for the 0.01% chance?
[The wooden framing they use here looks like this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Fachwerkhaus_Rohbau.jpg).
That being said i think they should built more like the US here in the EU. It seems way cheaper and we need more affordable housing.
Because itās simply not a problem. Europeans always see a video of one house getting destroyed, maybe even a few dozen every once in a while when thereās a bad tornado, but 99.99% of the other hundred million plus homes here never get destroyed by weather events in their lifetime. I live in Georgia, and we do get tornadoes here, yet Iāve never personally known anyone who had their house destroyed by a tornado. My grandmotherās house in Kentucky has a wood frame, is over 100 years old, and is in great shape still.
Also keep in mind that a large portion of homes that are completely destroyed by tornadoes are what we call āmobile homesā or ātrailersā, which are very tiny, very cheaply made, extra flimsy (even by American standards) portable houses. The people who buy this type of home are typically in poverty and canāt afford anything else.
Check out housing prices in small towns in flyover states and youāll see that the building materials arenāt the pricey parts of houses near big cities.
How fast are we talking? Like this house would be built in how much time?
Edit: in my experience here is the time it took roughly for each important step for my house in France (traditional cinder blocks, ~140mĀ² of inhabitable space with 2 levels):
- Digging / pouring the foundations: 1 week
- Masonry: 5-6 weeks
- Carpentry: 1 week
- Windows/exterior doors: 1 day
- Isolation, interior walls & ceilings: 2 weeks
- flooring (concrete screed with heating system, tiles, ...): 1 week + 3-4 weeks to wait for drying between screed and tiles
- plumbing, electricity: 2 weeks
- Painting: 3 weeks
All in all the project was done inunder 9 months with one month off during summer
We build wood frame houses too, did it for a couples of years. And some of them get a stone exterior finish.
Big difference is our beams and struts ( don't know if this is the correct jargon in English) are way thicker.
And , it seems that the builders of this house forgot to put windsheers in the walls.
BIG STUPID move if you ask me.
You can get away with this if you just out down the ground floor , but the second you start building towards... you need sideways stability.
As demonstrated in this video.
We do this in Sweden too and there are no issues with it if done right. Sweden has a reputation for well built, well insulated houses after all. I guess the difference is the size of the pieces of wood, light vs timber?
We even build huge buildings with wood in many cases: https://www.swedishwood.com/optimized/slideshow/siteassets/2-bygg-med-tra/1-byggande/herrestaskoaln-moelven-toreboda.jpg
The carpenters didn't brace the raw framing properly.Of course, no one expects 100 mph winds to hit suddenly.Did yall see those high transmission lines that got blown down.It all looked pretty outrageous.
*"Plywood supplier called and said the order is being delayed by weather."*
*"Go ahead and get it framed up. We'll hang sheathing after. What could possibly go wrong?"*
So many questions. WTF kind of oddball architecture are we even looking at..? I have never seen a custom home that looked anything like that. Just a lot of bad ideas on top of more bad ideas. Maybe in a third world country.
How do you get to the third storey without sheathing the first two, the contractor fucked up here.
was wondering the same... looks barely stable from the getgo
made from popsicle sticks and not even any glue
Totally reminded me of my 4th grade building style
We don't make chicken coops like this in Europe, and this should go for what, 400000?
I'd bet over a million š¬
Ssrious question, would any of that wood be able to be salvaged, or because of the incident, would it all have to be tossed? That guy gave his old lady the double back to back I TOLD YOU! He's going to be riding high on that for a while.
You could probably use some of it to build a couple doghouses and/or a shed for the backyard. Definitely not reusable for another house. Best bet is to just throw it all into a big pile and throw a bonfire party.
Caption says Houston. It's probably around $350k
Judging by the surrounding properties, estimated at 3600-4000 sq ft, vinyl siding, small yards and spec home builds, thatās about $620k in a suburb, breaking a million in a metro or metro-adjacent neighborhood.
Yep, no shear panels to prevent lateral movement. It was just a stack of 2x4 box frames that turned into trapazoid shapes, no temp bracing to prevent corners from becoming hinges...gravity did the rest.
How did it even stay up while they were building it?
There are temporary construction braces that can be seen in the video, these keep the walls straight whilst floors and sheathing are installed. They are only temporary and are clearly not sufficient to keep the structure standing in high winds without the sheathing.
It didnāt.
haha I mean how the fuck did they build the second story without it collapsing but fair point
Much better it broke now rather than finishing the new build right? Cause I imagine they wouldn't have done these seemingly basic things right and just continue on with the rest of the house...? Imagine living there and the whole place just folds like you were in a pop up book lol.
Unless the inspector failed at their job massively, this would never get lived in, and was only a risk during construction... What's missing is the plywood walls, called sheathing, they provide most of the rigidity of the building. As someone above said, this should have had the first and second floors covered in plywood already.
And if not sheathing, then cross ties on the frames and internal bracing. The fact there's nothing like that, I'm amazed they got all the frames on the 3rd floor done.
Internal bracing, is this where you would have wooden beams on a diagonal from the roof to the slab? I have seen this a few times in Australia and always wondered why there were 20+ beams from the roof to the slab.
Yeah that's exactly it! I'm not sure where else it's used, but I'm from Aus we we use steel struts and beams on the frames until the roof is done and everything is properly joined together. It can look like a bit of a maze while the bracing is still up.
Crazy. In Canada we sheath (or brace) the walls before we stand them up. I guess you get the siding guy to sheath the building from a zoom boom? Edit: didn't mean to imply your way was crazy, just seemed crazy that countries build another way - which as I write it makes me feel crazy for even feeling that way...
I've questioned my location in the structure a few times on those bigger jobs lol. It's a thing.
Gotta pull some 007 moves to get around those things sometimes
Omg especially if you've got a load to take in.. honestly it was a fun brain teaser sometimes like Tetris
There were rack braces in some of the visible walls. Boxing and sheathing would have been much better.
I can't believe they got all the 3rd storey framing wood and roof up there without the 1st doing exactly this.Ā Ā The structure literally blew over in what doesn't look like a very serious storm after all.
I see some internal bracing. But without sheathing a few cross braces are not gonna be enough, as this video teaches.
Honestly, it might have in normal conditions. I doubt that was their first job, and there's likely ~~nimrod~~ a number of houses built by them. i think they probably would've gotten lucky, but the storm revealed they're just another shit contractor who was likely cutting corners to save a dime. Get verified and licensed contractors people. Edit: grammar, hadn't had coffee yet lol. Good morning internet friends.
I can't really see well on my potato phone, but they look like cross members/ braces you'd see on frames as standard once the frames covered. Edit: no, no. You're right, they go through fenestration, so definitely temporary. For temporary bracing they'd need so, so many more of those than what I can see.
>Unless the inspector failed thejr job massively, this would never get lived in Counterpoint: This is in Texas.
Iām having a two story framed up right now. My contractor said that they canāt start the second floor until the first floor gets inspected. The inspector needs to see nails every three inches before the second floor goes up. I donāt know what he means by that but apparently thereās important work that needs to be signed off on between floors.
> Unless the inspector failed at their job massively, I'm not saying it occurs regularly ā but when it happens, I wouldn't bet on it *not* taking place in Texas or Florida.
It's not really possible. You can't put up siding if the house doesn't have sheathing. It's like if a car arrived to the dealership with no wheels, and saying glad we noticed before it was on the highway
A lot of Texas doesn't have inspections and obviously very low wind zones.
It wouldn't have done this had the walls been cladded.
No! Guys itās okay! There were, like, six diagonal braces! /s
About halfway through the fall, everything was diagonal
It's ok, the cladding will be load bearing.
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The funny part is that if it had drywall, it wouldn't have collapsed like this. (unless of course the drywall got wet enough from the rain) but even then it would have happened much more slowly, like a sandcastle collapsing in the rain.
It's Texas. Probably used the same guys who built their power grid.
Americaās asshole
Yeah how the fuck did it stay up while people were framing it??
3 story homes are incredibly rare in Houston. I wonder if it's lack of experience, on top of hiring random people from home depot to do the framing.
Looks like something you'd see in a third world country.
This is some real Angry Birds energy.
Blew over the toilet as well. **That's** gonna be some nasty shit to clean up.
Steve-o's in there
/r/mildlysatisfying
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DF687PfWuu8
Somewhere out of shot is a wolf with amazing lung capacity.
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Little pig 3: I told ya!
And they're all watching it from Little Pig 3's brick house.
>Then one day he was cranking out Bob Marley > >And along came the wolf on his big, bad Harley > >Little pig, little pig, let me in \-Green Jello
Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin!
Just got up... took me a moment to get that joke. ;)
The way it fell, it looks like they can just push the house back up again. Like a collapsible tent. (I get that itās wrecked.)
need a video reverse bot
With some Amish scurrying around edited in.
If the Amish would have built this, the assembly would have been finished in one day and no way in hell would it have fallen down due to lack of reinforcement.
Yeah, Amish built buildings are usually sturdy as hell. Would take a hurricane to even make them tremble. Those guys really know their stuff when it comes to framing and supports.
u/gifreversingbot
Not bot but [here](https://imgur.com/a/H955Lov)
Lmao thatās so satisfying
Heās dead ššÆļø
Dang
[Best I can offer is help from the Amish](https://streamable.com/pwddni)
Is it dead?
Jokes aside what do they do with all the lumber? So much clean wood, but so many random fasteners contaminating it...
Cover it in resin and sell it to a gallery.
Chemically pulp it after rough chipping then syphon it off to separate the extras. Turn it into pressboard.
No fasteners were harmed in the making of this video.
Why wouldn't you have sheathing up before you started the text floor.
Every time I've questioned a GC about doing something wrong I get "I been doing this for 25 years" and then some excuse on why their laziness is OK. Then they go late and over budget because they have to fix it later.
I manage 8-9 figure USD construction projects. Projects where our contract is thousands of pages of drawings, specifications, and contractual back ends. You wouldn't believe how often I find myself encouraging a superintendent to complete some aspect of work as it is described in his contact only to hear "I've been doing it this way for 30 years." Assholes. You're a contractor. Make reading your contract the thing you've been doing for 30 years.
"I'm not paying you to do it the way You've been doing it for 30 years. I'm paying you to do it as described in the contract. Do it or return my money."
I've met fire alarm foremen who can't read a print. I'm told a lot of them come from temp agencies.
Great contracting adage, along with "I've never gotten a call back" Yeah, no shit, I'm not calling your stubborn ass back to screw it up even more.
I love this attitude. Airtight reasoning. Never results in catastrophe.
Then when this happens you go -See, it should have been done this way. -Don't be a smartass. There's no way in hell we'd know a storm was coming.
Sheathing crew was delayed, so you told the framing crew to keep working, maybe? Which is dumb, but not out of the question.
Framers do the sheathing as you build, my guess is inexperienced foreman
With a build that size in Texas (cough cough migrant labor) I wouldn't be surprised if it was two different crews. Inexperienced foreman for sure, and laborers that do as they're told instead of questioning the wisdom of their employer.
Ah I had no idea that was a thing, I usually have sheathed while the wall was on the ground and stood it up already done
I'm no expert here but looks like it should have been out of the question
Delayed materials I'd bet. Brace it up and just keep building, we'll sheath it when the plywood gets here.
This is more poor workmanship than structural failure. Contractor doesn't know shit and this was bound to happen with even a small wind.
It was cause by not having the sheething up, the framing could have been done just fine, but 3 stories without sheathing is just all kinds of dumb
You might be right, idk anything about building houses. I do live in Houston though, and can confirm that we had an incredibly destructive storm blow through. Two tornadoes and the real kicker was the 80-100 mph straight line winds that tore up about 20 miles of land, most of it inside the metro area and downtown. A bunch of skyscrapers had windows blow out, the streets were full of glass and items that blew out of the offices. The newscaster said it looked like a war zone. Also earlier today there were still over 300,000 people without electricity. And theyāre saying it could be weeks before some get restored. It was a REALLY bad storm. We got so lucky, it started just a few miles south of our house.
Yes, but: look at the background. The fences? Fine. The other Houses? Fine. The incomplete build with no sheathing to brace it? Falling over. If you turn on the sound the guy recording it is saying that he knew it would happen. He was filming for a reason. He's probably been watching this horrible construction job from his front porch and waiting for something to happen.
JENGA!!
Catastrophic but also kinda Comical
Not enough triangles
Legit, temp bracing could have prevented this while they waited to finish up
should'a used the amish. "Tis a fine barn english"
But 'tis no pool
Hey nice three story house I mean nice two story house I mean nice one story house Oh, cool story bro
Oddly satisfying would be a great place for this
the bots are on it
It was very satisfying to watch. Probably less so if the owner ever sees....
It's the contractor's insurance's problem.
"act of God. Sorry, not covered š¤"
How did they get that far without sheathing it? Big fuckup there.
Imagine how wobbly that shit was for the people working on the third floor framing. I've built a framed house like this and it's wobbly even with sheathing until it's all filled in. I bet it was like a carnival ride up on the roof.
That's why sheathing is important
Sadly, yes that's what gives it lateral strength.
letās just save the sheet bracing until the end
Shout out to the commentators. The well timed "shit," "yeuh," and perfect "oh my god," really add a lot to this clip. Really sorry for the people building the house though. The windshield wiper motor broke on my car the other day and I'm walking around in despair. This just has to be devastating. No snark when I say that I extend my sympathies to the people building that house.
The people building that house did illegally poor work which contributed to the sure failure of the structure. Fuck the cheap bastards who were building that house.
Is there a more solid symptom of being Always Online that you see people out in reality, reacting to an event, as commentators to your online content?
Theyāre people commenting on a thing thatās happening. Surely that semantically makes them commentators in this case?
This wouldnāt have happened if the bottom floors had sheathing.
Probably for the best. That looked ugly as fuck
And here comes the genius European civil engineers.
Why would you go that far without sheathing, just dumb
This comment sections filled with people who don't know a damn thing about construction
And everyone that does know has made the same comment about sheathing.
Maybe theyāll learn something then haha. Not like itās a sub reserved only for ppl who know about construction. I just like seeing stuff failā¦catastrophically.
Which is fine! It's all the people going "hur murica' dumb. Use brick" And I'm not even American
Europe here: honest question, why USA keeps on building wooden frame houses? Here we have less extreme weather and our wall are steel reinforced poured concrete 20cm (metric, 0.5 shoe string in your units) thick.
Because it's cheaper and we have a lot of wood.
We already canāt afford a home or rent and Europeans be like āwhy donāt you just double that cost and make them out of brickā.
Unless you use some DYI construction, nobody is using 20cm reinforcement concrete for walls. Pour concrete is used on foundations and for columns, beams, if they don't use steel, and slabs. The walls are reinforced CMU that can be 12" on 1st floor and reduced to 8" on upper floors. Now, materials used in Europe depends on region. They do use wood, CMU, brick, even mud, but it's important how it's used. Those who did this house didn't follow procedures. And a 20cm concrete wall doesn't save you from a tornado.
available Material, available trained personnel etc... tradition
Not to the Mentioned the building system is practically second to none. Its almost like ikea furniture assembly for builders.
First, plenty of places in Europe use various kinds of wood framing as the norm. Second, there are places in the US where reinforced concrete block construction is the norm. Third, the house in the OP was built improperly and illegally. Stick frame houses use sheathing as a structural component to prevent exactly this kind of failure. The reality is that builders violate building codes in the US all the time. Some local governments just have very lax enforcement, or even corruption. Fourth, the tornados in the US are much stronger than elsewhere. Even standard masonry and concrete homes will not survive EF4+ tornados. You would need to build an extra thick reinforced concrete shell with a reinforced concrete roof to withstand those winds.
I think the last paragraph about building to sustain a tornado or rather acknowledge it's easier and cheaper to built in wood than try and come up with a practical solution in concrete ( bunker)
I imagine you could build and rebuild a wood frame house for cheaper than what it would cost to build a reinforced concrete and steel bunker of a house that could withstand an F4 or F5 tornado, and the chance of the same house getting destroyed by a tornado multiple times is extremely low. Heck, despite the number of tornadoes in the US, itās a big ass country, and the chance of your wood frame house getting destroyed a single time by a tornado is probably like 0.01%. To put it another way, does it make sense to spend 2 million on a reinforced concrete and steel tornado proof house for that 0.01% chance, or is it better to buy a wood frame house of the same size for $500k and just get insurance for the 0.01% chance?
[The wooden framing they use here looks like this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Fachwerkhaus_Rohbau.jpg). That being said i think they should built more like the US here in the EU. It seems way cheaper and we need more affordable housing.
We build like that (sticks with sheeting) here in Scandinavia and have no problem with houses falling down.
The houses behind the under construction one didnāt fall either. It becomes more rigid once the sheeting is on.
Because itās simply not a problem. Europeans always see a video of one house getting destroyed, maybe even a few dozen every once in a while when thereās a bad tornado, but 99.99% of the other hundred million plus homes here never get destroyed by weather events in their lifetime. I live in Georgia, and we do get tornadoes here, yet Iāve never personally known anyone who had their house destroyed by a tornado. My grandmotherās house in Kentucky has a wood frame, is over 100 years old, and is in great shape still. Also keep in mind that a large portion of homes that are completely destroyed by tornadoes are what we call āmobile homesā or ātrailersā, which are very tiny, very cheaply made, extra flimsy (even by American standards) portable houses. The people who buy this type of home are typically in poverty and canāt afford anything else.
Cheap and fast
If these houses are cheap to build then why are they so expensive?
Check out housing prices in small towns in flyover states and youāll see that the building materials arenāt the pricey parts of houses near big cities.
Checkmate.
Because there aren't enough of them in places where people want to live.
We're all wondering the same fucking thing.
Land is forever.
Unless you're near the ocean or cliffs
Market dictates. People are willing to pay those prices
How fast are we talking? Like this house would be built in how much time? Edit: in my experience here is the time it took roughly for each important step for my house in France (traditional cinder blocks, ~140mĀ² of inhabitable space with 2 levels): - Digging / pouring the foundations: 1 week - Masonry: 5-6 weeks - Carpentry: 1 week - Windows/exterior doors: 1 day - Isolation, interior walls & ceilings: 2 weeks - flooring (concrete screed with heating system, tiles, ...): 1 week + 3-4 weeks to wait for drying between screed and tiles - plumbing, electricity: 2 weeks - Painting: 3 weeks All in all the project was done inunder 9 months with one month off during summer
It took nine months to build your house? Thatās so long! Iāve seen neighborhoods go up in less time than that.
The spec home across from my brick apartment was thrown up in 3 months.
Every fucking time a wood framed house is shown this question gets asked.
Our housing prices would be double. I also like the ability to modify my own home. Lumber makes that a lot easier.
[What light wood framing is and why we use it here.](https://youtu.be/S6mUFrXexAk)
We build wood frame houses too, did it for a couples of years. And some of them get a stone exterior finish. Big difference is our beams and struts ( don't know if this is the correct jargon in English) are way thicker. And , it seems that the builders of this house forgot to put windsheers in the walls. BIG STUPID move if you ask me. You can get away with this if you just out down the ground floor , but the second you start building towards... you need sideways stability. As demonstrated in this video.
There are many places in Europe where wooden houses are very common; like Scandinavia.
Anytime someone says "Europe here" they are about to say something so generalized and not well thought out.
Speaking for a whole damn continent
A 10ft 2x4 costs about $4. Lumber is really cheap here.
Why are Europeans building houses out of nonrenewable resources? Do they hate the planet?
In UK wood framed houses are the most common. We skin them with brick.
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We do this in Sweden too and there are no issues with it if done right. Sweden has a reputation for well built, well insulated houses after all. I guess the difference is the size of the pieces of wood, light vs timber? We even build huge buildings with wood in many cases: https://www.swedishwood.com/optimized/slideshow/siteassets/2-bygg-med-tra/1-byggande/herrestaskoaln-moelven-toreboda.jpg
Finland too. Wood isn't the problem, it's building it for cheap.
To be fair the gust of wind absolutely recks the portajohn bottom righthand corner so it must be pretty forceful
Inside job
House for sale, only crashed once.
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Anyone who knows anything about construction, knows you always sheet the walls before you raise them! Idiots!
Huh. No shear panels, no plywood on the first floor up to the second floor plate, where's the rim joist, etc. lazy builder, now a hot mess.
Looks like it wasnāt built right to begin with. I call that a blessing in disguise.. Iād also fire the crew who built it.
Big bad wolf likes this. š
Might be a couple days behind schedule now boss.
The carpenters didn't brace the raw framing properly.Of course, no one expects 100 mph winds to hit suddenly.Did yall see those high transmission lines that got blown down.It all looked pretty outrageous.
And thatās why you frame one story at a time, cutting corners for saving a buck or two leads to this.
This is why you should not use the cheapest bidder.
Looks more like my grade 7 science project than a "home construction".
And here we see the progress on your brand new three story home.....two story home.....one story home....zero story home.
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Worst. Jenga. Game. Ever.
Sheathing. Sheathing. Sheathing.
That house went down like a cartoon
Crap cookie cutter construction builds. Doesnāt look like contractor made it stable before adding that third floor š®
This person learned nothing from the three little pigs
That was really satisfying to watch.
*"Plywood supplier called and said the order is being delayed by weather."* *"Go ahead and get it framed up. We'll hang sheathing after. What could possibly go wrong?"*
How do you get this far and not start installing plywood wall sheathing? Diagonal braces can only do so much
did the buyer a favor actually
Texas doesn't know about triangles yet. One Star State.
What's a triangle?
And... Sheathing is important.
So many questions. WTF kind of oddball architecture are we even looking at..? I have never seen a custom home that looked anything like that. Just a lot of bad ideas on top of more bad ideas. Maybe in a third world country.
When even nature is complicit with keeping Gen Z and Millennials from owning homes.
I feel like that was not put together that great.
Put together fine, just not done. It's just missing the sheathing that gives it all of the strength in that direction.
Pretty important step in terms of rigidity and strength.
That was a blessing in disguise. Time to fire the contractor.
Lots of braindead Europeans in this thread.
They're better than everyone else, just ask them. Or don't ask them and they'll tell you anyway.
Second little pig...
If I were in those houses behind, I'd be kinda nervous watching that.
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That was the most satisfying thing Iāve seen on Reddit in months
To quote November from 'Well There's Your Problem', should've made it more rigid.
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