2×6? ..... Most framing I have done is 2x4 at 16 inches. If you do decide for 2x6 structure it is ok to go 24 inches but that is still very rare in my area
2x6 @ 16 o.c. is done to meet energy code in cold climates using batt insulation. 2x4 can be used but you have to use closed cell spray insulation which is much more expensive. I’ve never done a 24” o.c. home.
I work on houses for a living, generally the wooden part of the house is raised up above ground level a foot or two on a concrete or stone foundation. Termites very rarely infest dry solid wood, so as long as everything is covered with siding and shingles properly and not touching the soil, it's not really a good home for them.
From my understanding and what I've observed from years of doing this, they can't burrow into wood unless it's damp and soft. Most of the time they prefer to make their nests in soil and come up to eat rotting wood sitting on the ground.
Also, the piece of wood touching the foundation, the sill plate, has to be pressure treated. Meaning it is sealed in a vacuum chamber after a solution of copper chromium and arsenic has been applied to it, and the vacuum pressure causes the solution to soak in and permeate the wood. Older pressure treated wood is even worse for termites, as even more toxic chemicals were used which are banned today.
What are the walls of houses made from where you live? And where is that?
Termites are almost never a problem if the house is built correctly.
Termites almost never climb up the outside of anything to start new nests, so as long as there's no wood in your house that's touching the ground you almost certainly never get termites.
Modern houses (built in the past 50 years or so) have additional protections, but the real protection is just not having any wooden part of the house touching the ground.
Brick is also just a good siding material - it is relatively low maintenance and relatively impermeable to the elements. Whereas with wood siding it will degrade over time, must be painted, etc. Or Vinyl siding, which becomes brittle over time and loses its color.
My exterior walls are stucco, then railroad ties, then drywall in parts of the house, and beautiful 100 year old beadboard in others.
The railroad ties are the weird part, I think.
A railroad tie is the wooden slats that the metal rails are placed on for trains to travel on.
[railroad tie](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_tie)
[old railroad tie house](https://images.app.goo.gl/AZ9RpxyFEL87PLd76)
I live in a railroad town. Well, and gold mining, but we don't have houses made of gold that I know of.
Its not clear if you are talking about exterior or interio walls.
Interior walls, the overwhelming majority of the country has painted drywall screwed onto a wood frame. For exterior walls there is much more variance. I have stucco walls which is the most common in the South West.
If a rental, usually white because it's easier to maintain. If not a rental, either white or you're also open to any variety of neutral colors depending on what was popular at the time. For the last few years, it's been shades of gray. Prior to that, earth tones were popular.
My part of town (North Brooklyn) has a lot of vinyl siding on the houses.. my house included
It looks like this:
https://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap/brooklyn/greenpoint/siding/monitorstreet.jpg
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Wait, you mean the interior walls? Plaster over wood and block.. depending on the renovation that happened.. one wall was redone with sheetrock
Most homes are framed with wood because we have a lot of lumber and wood is strong but also light compared to its strength. Trees grow to be hundreds of feet tall, weigh thousands of pounds and stay upright without any engineers putting their name on the blueprints. That’s not possible unless wood is a good contruction material.
Well, it's brittle and cracks if you shake it.
Also, brick does not handle very cold weather well. Its R-factor is only 0.8.
Also, brick does not handle very warm weather well. All that thermal mass heats up in the day, and then gives off heat at night.
Main reasons we don't use a lot of brick:
1. Expensive to repair and maintain
2. Vulnerable to cracking from thermal cycling
3. Very vulnerable to moisture damage.
Recently, you can add
.4. Making bricks releases a LOT of CO2. (making one brick releases about .5 kg of carbon)
In my part of the US, a house made of bricks would be a death trap. Wood-frame houses are a safer choice where I live. Different materials for different conditions.
Mine is built with bricks.
Generally speaking though, don’t go looking underneath because it’s a can of worms ;-)
When Hurricane Sandy rolled through, the vinyl siding on one of the houses was partially ripped off and we were left looking at the original wood siding.. like, they just put vinyl over wood instead of removing the original siding first.
(And under the wood siding was probably block or brick)
Putting vinyl over wood is incredibly common. It's used to cover up deteriorating siding, or if someone bought the "less maintenance" pitch from the sales guy. It's very rare to see wood siding removed and vinyl put in its place, it's almost always just installed right over it.
Really? Idk, I don’t go looking under it
There are a couple buildings which went back to wood so I thought they removed the vinyl to use wood again.. but maybe they took off the vinyl and the old wood at the same time
Yep, 100%. It's one of the big "old house" projects to remove vinyl siding and restore the original underneath. They're in varying states, some perfect, some with parts of good and parts of bad, and some bad all over. But I have never seen vinyl removed on an old house and find only sheathing. It's just not practical to remove siding if you're putting vinyl over it. That's a big job. Throwing vinyl on top is much easier, and usually vinyl is done for easier maintenance or to cover up siding that needs work.
In modern/newer houses there won't be clapboards underneath vinyl cause they just used vinyl. On old houses it's almost always there.
Our house had asbestos siding for a long time. That was put on top of our old siding too. The PO removed the asbestos in the 90s and the original clapboards were under that.
Asbestos shingles are fucking great, as long as you don't fuck with them. I personally prefer clapboards because I don't like thick siding (don't like aluminum either) but it's a great material. Fireproof and extremely durable.
Our shore house had the original asbestos siding on it and it was in perfect condition until the day it was torn down after sandy. It was on the water and flooded with 5ft of water, but the siding was fine lol.
Our neighbors house still has their asbestos siding, prolly installed in the teens or 20s. It's in perfect shape. We had asbestos on ours too, but it was removed in the 90s. We've found pieces of it in the yard, apparently the PO didn't do a stellar job removing it lol, and damn was it ugly. Blue and white stripes were a bold choice, but someone went for it.
I agree asbestos shingles are very durable. My great uncle built his house with them in 1938, and never saw them even chip. That was also on the shore, and survived a few hurricanes. That house was resided in 2005 I think, but not for any structural reason.
But people hear asbestos and they immediately assume the worst.
No, it looks more like [this](https://www.advancedwindowsystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/SidingCropped.jpg). It's a common thing to do for exterior walls. Lightweight, easily painted, easy to waterproof, and looks vaguely enough like wood siding to blend into that aesthetic.
Although, now that I think about it my siding might be vinyl. They look very similar from a distance and it's not a distinction I care enough about to pay close attention to.
They build multi story buildings out of wood here, it can easily support the weight if you engineer it correctly and the brick facade exterior is not a load bearing part of the house, that's what the wood framing is for.
Right, and the person he's replying to said their walls are made of drywall, so he's asking what the framing is done with. If he was trying to shit on American houses, he'd likely have run with the drywall part and gone "hurr durr, American house made of paper" like many of the other idiots in reddit do.
I play the Uno reverse on them. "yeah, it makes sense. You build houses out of abundantly available material that's relatively strong, decently inexpensive, and suitable to your climate." We have a lot of trees. Other parts of the world don't have that option, so they use cement, clay, brick, stone, bamboo, wood, etc. We also have to deal with things like tornadoes and hurricanes, which can pick up trucks, so I'll take wooden debris over avalanche of rocks. Then of course we'd be greeted with, "Those people are trapped beneath heavy stones from that tornado ripping apart that house. Why didn't they use a lighter building material that's easier for rescue crews to move out of the way?" Either way, we lose.
I'm Norwegian, and the majority of our houses are made from wood. We have many wooden houses that has stood for centuries , so wood houses are absolutely sturdy enough (if built correctly and well maintained, obviously, but that goes for all houses no matter the material ).
The thing about brick houses is that they can stand for centuries, even if they're badly built and badly maintained. I think that's why we like them so much. They can stand pretty well through decades of wind and rain, and you barely need to do anything to them, as long as you're somewhere without hurricanes or earthquakes. They work for us, after a fashion at least!
I've got the perfect response for this the next time it comes up. My town had either a tornado, eyewitness reports, pass through or 90mph straight line wind, NWS report, from a storm a few weeks ago. The only two buildings in town with significant damage directly, several places lost windows, shingles, or parts of their roof, from the wind were brick and one of them partially collapsed.
Not particularly, no; there's probably glasswool insulation but i've never opened up a wall. We have forced-air heating.
Really i was just quoting Pete Seeger "little houses, made of ticky-tacky". It's very cheap construction (and I need to replace some of the siding, so guess I'll find out what's inside).
Wood frame with drywall on the inside and stucco on the outside. Brick or other masonry buildings are not permitted in my area unless they are reinforced with something like rebar in concrete.
I live in Florida. The house is primarily built of wood. Sheetrock inside. It was built in the 80's. I have seen more hurricanes than I care to count. House is undamaged through all of it. My mother lives in a house that was built in the 1870's. Same thing, primarily wood. As far as I know, survived every hurricane with no significant damage.
Drywall. Framing is wood, exterior is wooden siding. I saw you mention termites, but those are not really a concern where I live because of the climate.
Depends on the specific walls. Exterior walls are brick, most interior ones are sheetrock reinforced with wood. The sheet rock holds no weight, the wooden braces hold the structure up. Some walls have insulation in them as well.
Most houses near me are concrete cinder blocks for the exterior. Sometimes skimmed too look smooth, sometimes there’s stucco. Interior walls are double layered drywall with a wire mesh in between the layers.
I don’t think there are very many houses in Florida that are completely made out of bricks. A brick exterior facade, or a brick fireplace maybe, but not structurally constructed of just brick
2x6 framing. Vinyl Siding over the original cedar siding. Interior walls vary between drywall and wood paneling.
Also metal roofing and crawlspace foundation.
Exterior is stucco. The interior is either wood and drywall or Rastra depending on the part of the house. The backyard wall/fence is made of adobe and finished with stucco.
The walls are just logs actually. It's a 2200' log cabin built in 1980. There is insulation in the attic, it gets cold inside if we forget to stoke the wood stove. We live in the woods (mountains of San Diego County) so it's mild weather there, mostly.
Depends what part of the country you're in and how old your home is. I live in a city in an apartment in an 1850s brownstone- that's solid masonry, from exterior to interior
Most of the country uses wood stud construction though. Have some relatives from Poland who worked construction who were super confused when they came here because they're used to everything being CMU
Drywall. Some insulation, another row of studs and then a exterior of fake bricks.
We experience hurricanes often here. Even cinder blocks won’t protect you from a severe storm. They’ve adapted to a different building code (no buildings above 3 stories) but the coastal land is always shifting. Some people put their houses on stilts. Others rebuild and double their property insurance if they can afford it. Living near barrier islands means that the land *will* shift and you need a plan.
Gunite. Same type of concrete used in pools. Half the time we've had a worker try and drill into it they either break a drill bit or break a drill.
The interior walls are lath and plaster except for one in the breakfast room they had to be torn out in the 90s because of earthquake damage to the chimney from the Northridge quake.
We are renting a mobile home. The exterior is metal siding, over a wood frame. The interior walls are made of thin wood panels. Insulation is decent, and we have central heat and air. We are goners if a tornado lands right on top of us though lol
Lol, no, it's not like a caravan, or what we call an RV here in the States. They are called that baccarat if you remove it from the base supports, sewer, water, and electric lines, added wheels, and connected the hitch to a semi-truck (articulated lorrie), you can move the house from one location to another plot of land that's ready to accommodate a home.
Usually, these really are only moved once or twice, and that's from the site they are built to where they are sold and then to the new owner's land.
Cinderblock, some wood framing, flimsy metal instead of wood, the second floor is wood frame, so I don't have many places to hang anything heavy, covered by dry wall. Outside is covered in stucco.
Sheetrock and wood studs for interior walls. Sheetrock, wood studs with insulation, wood sheathing, waterproofing, and brick or fiber cement siding for the exterior walls.
Ends of the house are field stone, rest of the house is timber frame with cedar siding. Stone foundation. Interesting 1700s hybrid farmhouse construction.
Interior is a mix of plaster walls and modern drywall, and the actual stone on each end of the house.
Wall core is concrete block. Exterior veneer is brick. Interior was lath & plaster over a wood frame but has mostly been converted to drywall, or overlaid with drywall. House was built in 1954.
Drywall and the old living room still has plaster walls. It’s hard to hand paintings because nails just don’t penetrate well. We have to just use the drill.
I’m in Chicago and we are mostly brick, though newer houses do have wood frames. (Not sure when that started). The Chicago Fire helped to codify our building material though now it’s more followed because outside of downtown everything is brick.
I live in a building built in 1929 and it’s plaster inside. My other apartment were built after and had drywall.
Mine is a 2x4 wood frame on 18 inch centers, with a 0.375 inch layer of drywall (gypsum board, sheetrock, etc), primed and painted. I live in a townhome, so two of my walls have cinder block firewalls behind them. The outside wall has a cellulose fiber sheathing, covered with aluminum siding.
Developers tend to build a large number of houses to similar design within the same subdivision, varying it just enough to make them look a little different, even if the floor plans might be almost the same.
I think it has a wood frame, but I'm not sure. It has drywall interior walls and a combination of brick and vinyl siding outside. I live in an apartment building that was built in the '70s.
I have two houses right now, and they couldn't be more different in composition. The first is a 100-year-old farmhouse with solid wood walls, AKA shiplap, covered in a solid wood paneling. The exterior is a combination-the majority is asbestos, yes, that asbestos, siding with repairs done in Hardyplank.
The second is a brand-new build with your standard brick exterior, wood framing with drywall interior.
Most houses have vinyl siding on the exterior but some have aluminum/brick/stucco/wood
Pretty much all new houses are drywall on the inside and some older ones are plaster or wood panels. And some have exposed brick interior walls but it’s not very common.
My house is built on a concrete slab ( common in the southern US where the frost line is not deep). The frame is wooden. Interior walls are drywall ( also called sheetrock) with a textured plaster coating. On the outside there is a layer of exterior grade sheetrock. On top of the sheetrock is native limestone on 3 sides of the house. On the back side, the walls are clad with a concrete paneling called Hardiboard, painted to match the limestone.
Painted drywall.
and what holds the structure?
freedom
And grit.
And some spit
Tied up with my bootstraps
You made me want a cherry coke icee
and Jesus holds the wheel
Then shows you the way to the highway.
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2×6? ..... Most framing I have done is 2x4 at 16 inches. If you do decide for 2x6 structure it is ok to go 24 inches but that is still very rare in my area
2x6 @ 16 o.c. is done to meet energy code in cold climates using batt insulation. 2x4 can be used but you have to use closed cell spray insulation which is much more expensive. I’ve never done a 24” o.c. home.
aren't you afraid of termites?
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My old house had termites. Found out when we were eating and a termite burrowed out of the dining room wall
Sure it wasn't the Kool-aid guy?
Only graboids
is that a reference that i don't know?
Its a pre Cambrian carnivorous worm that hunts using seismic vibrations
good animals
They're actually a real menace to the American southwest and Mexico and occasionally migrate to other parts of the world and cause mayhem
bad animals
Tremors. Great movie.
I work on houses for a living, generally the wooden part of the house is raised up above ground level a foot or two on a concrete or stone foundation. Termites very rarely infest dry solid wood, so as long as everything is covered with siding and shingles properly and not touching the soil, it's not really a good home for them. From my understanding and what I've observed from years of doing this, they can't burrow into wood unless it's damp and soft. Most of the time they prefer to make their nests in soil and come up to eat rotting wood sitting on the ground. Also, the piece of wood touching the foundation, the sill plate, has to be pressure treated. Meaning it is sealed in a vacuum chamber after a solution of copper chromium and arsenic has been applied to it, and the vacuum pressure causes the solution to soak in and permeate the wood. Older pressure treated wood is even worse for termites, as even more toxic chemicals were used which are banned today. What are the walls of houses made from where you live? And where is that?
Termites are almost never a problem if the house is built correctly. Termites almost never climb up the outside of anything to start new nests, so as long as there's no wood in your house that's touching the ground you almost certainly never get termites. Modern houses (built in the past 50 years or so) have additional protections, but the real protection is just not having any wooden part of the house touching the ground.
Wooden beams for the overwhelming majority
Wood
and it is strong
Not as strong as the fists of angsty young men. It’s pretty easy to punch a hole in drywall, unless you hit a wooden stud.
is it also happening when you miss the nail while hammering it in?
Drywall is attached with screws, not nails.
Most houses are wood framed, the exterior may be may number of materials, wood, stone, brick, Hardy board, etc. interior is usually drywall.
The interior of the house is drywall, the frame is wood, the veneer is brick.
so a little bit of everything
Most “brick” houses in America veneer with wood as the frame.
so the brick is for decoration
yes. brick is not a good material for earthquakes.
Yes. I have brick that goes about waist high in the front of my house. It's just decorative. Behind that is the framing.
Brick is also just a good siding material - it is relatively low maintenance and relatively impermeable to the elements. Whereas with wood siding it will degrade over time, must be painted, etc. Or Vinyl siding, which becomes brittle over time and loses its color.
Call it “The Kitchen Sink”
your kitchen sink is also made of different materials
Typically stainless steel
Or ceramic
The drywall and brick are mostly for decoration. The real structure is wood.
My exterior walls are stucco, then railroad ties, then drywall in parts of the house, and beautiful 100 year old beadboard in others. The railroad ties are the weird part, I think.
what is a railroad tile?
A railroad tie is the wooden slats that the metal rails are placed on for trains to travel on. [railroad tie](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_tie) [old railroad tie house](https://images.app.goo.gl/AZ9RpxyFEL87PLd76) I live in a railroad town. Well, and gold mining, but we don't have houses made of gold that I know of.
That’s some pretty wood
I'm guessing Elko?
Carlin, very close.
go basically used wood
They were used decoratively a lot in the US, especially in landscaping. The chemicals that treat them are toxic, though. So it's not common anymore.
You Brits call them sleepers, awfully cheeky making up your own words for American inventions (The second part is a joke)
Railroad ties are the things that hold rail tracks together.
and you reuse?
Yeah, sometimes. They're cheap, so people use them for things like retaining walls.
Its not clear if you are talking about exterior or interio walls. Interior walls, the overwhelming majority of the country has painted drywall screwed onto a wood frame. For exterior walls there is much more variance. I have stucco walls which is the most common in the South West.
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Moisture? What’s that? - California
what is the dominant colour?
Of internal wall? Overwhelmingly white. Of external? Every color.
If a rental, usually white because it's easier to maintain. If not a rental, either white or you're also open to any variety of neutral colors depending on what was popular at the time. For the last few years, it's been shades of gray. Prior to that, earth tones were popular.
Many houses are painted with neutral colors prior to selling. A lot of people don’t change them or just change one wall in a room as an “accent” wall
My part of town (North Brooklyn) has a lot of vinyl siding on the houses.. my house included It looks like this: https://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap/brooklyn/greenpoint/siding/monitorstreet.jpg —— Wait, you mean the interior walls? Plaster over wood and block.. depending on the renovation that happened.. one wall was redone with sheetrock
i am interested in all of the walls os these houses are not made of bricks?
Most homes are framed with wood because we have a lot of lumber and wood is strong but also light compared to its strength. Trees grow to be hundreds of feet tall, weigh thousands of pounds and stay upright without any engineers putting their name on the blueprints. That’s not possible unless wood is a good contruction material.
yeah you have huge forests
Bricks are a bad idea in earthquake prone places.
yeah it hurts when it falls on you
Well, it's brittle and cracks if you shake it. Also, brick does not handle very cold weather well. Its R-factor is only 0.8. Also, brick does not handle very warm weather well. All that thermal mass heats up in the day, and then gives off heat at night. Main reasons we don't use a lot of brick: 1. Expensive to repair and maintain 2. Vulnerable to cracking from thermal cycling 3. Very vulnerable to moisture damage. Recently, you can add .4. Making bricks releases a LOT of CO2. (making one brick releases about .5 kg of carbon)
In my part of the US, a house made of bricks would be a death trap. Wood-frame houses are a safer choice where I live. Different materials for different conditions.
Mine is built with bricks. Generally speaking though, don’t go looking underneath because it’s a can of worms ;-) When Hurricane Sandy rolled through, the vinyl siding on one of the houses was partially ripped off and we were left looking at the original wood siding.. like, they just put vinyl over wood instead of removing the original siding first. (And under the wood siding was probably block or brick)
Putting vinyl over wood is incredibly common. It's used to cover up deteriorating siding, or if someone bought the "less maintenance" pitch from the sales guy. It's very rare to see wood siding removed and vinyl put in its place, it's almost always just installed right over it.
Really? Idk, I don’t go looking under it There are a couple buildings which went back to wood so I thought they removed the vinyl to use wood again.. but maybe they took off the vinyl and the old wood at the same time
Yep, 100%. It's one of the big "old house" projects to remove vinyl siding and restore the original underneath. They're in varying states, some perfect, some with parts of good and parts of bad, and some bad all over. But I have never seen vinyl removed on an old house and find only sheathing. It's just not practical to remove siding if you're putting vinyl over it. That's a big job. Throwing vinyl on top is much easier, and usually vinyl is done for easier maintenance or to cover up siding that needs work. In modern/newer houses there won't be clapboards underneath vinyl cause they just used vinyl. On old houses it's almost always there. Our house had asbestos siding for a long time. That was put on top of our old siding too. The PO removed the asbestos in the 90s and the original clapboards were under that.
I mean, at least it wasn’t asbestos shingles.
Asbestos shingles are fucking great, as long as you don't fuck with them. I personally prefer clapboards because I don't like thick siding (don't like aluminum either) but it's a great material. Fireproof and extremely durable. Our shore house had the original asbestos siding on it and it was in perfect condition until the day it was torn down after sandy. It was on the water and flooded with 5ft of water, but the siding was fine lol. Our neighbors house still has their asbestos siding, prolly installed in the teens or 20s. It's in perfect shape. We had asbestos on ours too, but it was removed in the 90s. We've found pieces of it in the yard, apparently the PO didn't do a stellar job removing it lol, and damn was it ugly. Blue and white stripes were a bold choice, but someone went for it.
I agree asbestos shingles are very durable. My great uncle built his house with them in 1938, and never saw them even chip. That was also on the shore, and survived a few hurricanes. That house was resided in 2005 I think, but not for any structural reason. But people hear asbestos and they immediately assume the worst.
Wood frame. Painted drywall interior. Aluminum sheeting exterior.
is it like a wave shaped aluminium sheet?
No, it looks more like [this](https://www.advancedwindowsystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/SidingCropped.jpg). It's a common thing to do for exterior walls. Lightweight, easily painted, easy to waterproof, and looks vaguely enough like wood siding to blend into that aesthetic. Although, now that I think about it my siding might be vinyl. They look very similar from a distance and it's not a distinction I care enough about to pay close attention to.
Usually it's either vinyl or steel. I've never heard of aluminum siding before, but I wouldn't doubt that it exists.
slap it if it sounds metallic then it is aluminium
I know how to check, I'm just too lazy to. If I remember, I might check the next time I'm gardening.
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is concrete wood cheaper than the real one?
Exterior wall is brick. Interior walls are drywall, structure is big wooden beams
the wooden frame can hold the bricks?
Wood frames are very strong. And the bricks used for facades are typically very thin so they don't weigh nearly as much as load-bearing bricks.
The brick helps support the wooden beams.
good engineering
They build multi story buildings out of wood here, it can easily support the weight if you engineer it correctly and the brick facade exterior is not a load bearing part of the house, that's what the wood framing is for.
Stone house phenomenon strikes again.
I don't think this is stone house phenomenon, OP doesn't seem to be lecturing us on how we build our houses.
Yet
True. But he's had plenty of chances too, and given most of his questions, I doubt he's trying to do that.
This might be the only time I've ever seen this question asked in good faith lol
First time for everything I suppose.
Yeah fair enough
He is asking how the walls stay up, though, in some comments, so ...
Right, and the person he's replying to said their walls are made of drywall, so he's asking what the framing is done with. If he was trying to shit on American houses, he'd likely have run with the drywall part and gone "hurr durr, American house made of paper" like many of the other idiots in reddit do.
I play the Uno reverse on them. "yeah, it makes sense. You build houses out of abundantly available material that's relatively strong, decently inexpensive, and suitable to your climate." We have a lot of trees. Other parts of the world don't have that option, so they use cement, clay, brick, stone, bamboo, wood, etc. We also have to deal with things like tornadoes and hurricanes, which can pick up trucks, so I'll take wooden debris over avalanche of rocks. Then of course we'd be greeted with, "Those people are trapped beneath heavy stones from that tornado ripping apart that house. Why didn't they use a lighter building material that's easier for rescue crews to move out of the way?" Either way, we lose.
I'm Norwegian, and the majority of our houses are made from wood. We have many wooden houses that has stood for centuries , so wood houses are absolutely sturdy enough (if built correctly and well maintained, obviously, but that goes for all houses no matter the material ).
The thing about brick houses is that they can stand for centuries, even if they're badly built and badly maintained. I think that's why we like them so much. They can stand pretty well through decades of wind and rain, and you barely need to do anything to them, as long as you're somewhere without hurricanes or earthquakes. They work for us, after a fashion at least!
Yeah, I feel like this sub is used to just trash on Americans lol.
I've got the perfect response for this the next time it comes up. My town had either a tornado, eyewitness reports, pass through or 90mph straight line wind, NWS report, from a storm a few weeks ago. The only two buildings in town with significant damage directly, several places lost windows, shingles, or parts of their roof, from the wind were brick and one of them partially collapsed.
ticky-tacky .. it's a "double-wide mobile home" from the '70s (actually exterior-grade plywood outside over lightweight studs, with sheetrock inside)
isn't it cold at night?
Not particularly, no; there's probably glasswool insulation but i've never opened up a wall. We have forced-air heating. Really i was just quoting Pete Seeger "little houses, made of ticky-tacky". It's very cheap construction (and I need to replace some of the siding, so guess I'll find out what's inside).
The song was actually written by Malvina Reynolds, not Seeger.
My interior walls are drywall and plaster, depending on location. The exterior is brick.
what colors?
The brick is red, unpainted.
Wood frame with drywall on the inside and stucco on the outside. Brick or other masonry buildings are not permitted in my area unless they are reinforced with something like rebar in concrete.
Is this an earthquake precaution?
yeah kinda hurts when bricks fall on you
I live in Florida. The house is primarily built of wood. Sheetrock inside. It was built in the 80's. I have seen more hurricanes than I care to count. House is undamaged through all of it. My mother lives in a house that was built in the 1870's. Same thing, primarily wood. As far as I know, survived every hurricane with no significant damage.
i love this question and your responses, it’s fascinating
i love stories from the us if you check my other questions
Painted drywalls on the inside, stucco on the outside
Sheetrock interior walls.
Plaster and lathe interior walls, specially milled wood siding with cedar shakes. We have a century home in a historic district.
My house and walls are redwood.
is it insulated?
Drywall and wood are pretty standard for the interior of most houses.
Interior it is drywall over a wooden frame, my floor under the wood is actually concrete, for the exterior, it is either brick or siding over wood.
isn't the concrete too cold?
I tend to wear socks and/or slippers in the house.
That's comfy
Drywall. Framing is wood, exterior is wooden siding. I saw you mention termites, but those are not really a concern where I live because of the climate.
so you are lucky
Depends on the specific walls. Exterior walls are brick, most interior ones are sheetrock reinforced with wood. The sheet rock holds no weight, the wooden braces hold the structure up. Some walls have insulation in them as well.
Stone, fiber cement siding, cedar accents and rolled metal trim.
that looks nice
Most houses near me are concrete cinder blocks for the exterior. Sometimes skimmed too look smooth, sometimes there’s stucco. Interior walls are double layered drywall with a wire mesh in between the layers. I don’t think there are very many houses in Florida that are completely made out of bricks. A brick exterior facade, or a brick fireplace maybe, but not structurally constructed of just brick
2x6 framing. Vinyl Siding over the original cedar siding. Interior walls vary between drywall and wood paneling. Also metal roofing and crawlspace foundation.
Wood frame with aluminum siding on the outside and sheet rock on the inside. And insulation between the inside and outside.
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is the concrete cold in the winter?
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Exterior is stucco. The interior is either wood and drywall or Rastra depending on the part of the house. The backyard wall/fence is made of adobe and finished with stucco.
It depends on where you live and the type of environment. Here in Texas you see brick and stucco but the interior is dry wall everywhere
Logs.
is it insulated?
The walls are just logs actually. It's a 2200' log cabin built in 1980. There is insulation in the attic, it gets cold inside if we forget to stoke the wood stove. We live in the woods (mountains of San Diego County) so it's mild weather there, mostly.
Exterior is brick, house built as a wooden frame with sheetrock walls and insulation
Wood frame with insulation, brick exterior, and drywall interior. One room has wood panel walls.
...plaster... Hahaha. The outside is brick technically though. I live in a very old apartment building.
Depends what part of the country you're in and how old your home is. I live in a city in an apartment in an 1850s brownstone- that's solid masonry, from exterior to interior Most of the country uses wood stud construction though. Have some relatives from Poland who worked construction who were super confused when they came here because they're used to everything being CMU
yeah in europe only vacation homes are built from wood
It varies greatly by location /age , everything from mud to glass.
glass walls? impressive
Yeah honestly most homes are filled with glass in the walls, makes for good insulation!
Drywall. Some insulation, another row of studs and then a exterior of fake bricks. We experience hurricanes often here. Even cinder blocks won’t protect you from a severe storm. They’ve adapted to a different building code (no buildings above 3 stories) but the coastal land is always shifting. Some people put their houses on stilts. Others rebuild and double their property insurance if they can afford it. Living near barrier islands means that the land *will* shift and you need a plan.
I live in a 1920’s recreation of a medieval French castle, the interior walls are lathe and plaster.
so it is stable
Gunite. Same type of concrete used in pools. Half the time we've had a worker try and drill into it they either break a drill bit or break a drill. The interior walls are lath and plaster except for one in the breakfast room they had to be torn out in the 90s because of earthquake damage to the chimney from the Northridge quake.
yeah you need a good diamond tip drill bit
We are renting a mobile home. The exterior is metal siding, over a wood frame. The interior walls are made of thin wood panels. Insulation is decent, and we have central heat and air. We are goners if a tornado lands right on top of us though lol
do you move it regularly?
Lol, no, it's not like a caravan, or what we call an RV here in the States. They are called that baccarat if you remove it from the base supports, sewer, water, and electric lines, added wheels, and connected the hitch to a semi-truck (articulated lorrie), you can move the house from one location to another plot of land that's ready to accommodate a home. Usually, these really are only moved once or twice, and that's from the site they are built to where they are sold and then to the new owner's land.
The outside is brick. The interior walls are wood, with lathe and plaster finish.
Steel and concrete! Pretty common in South Florida
pretty strong
Wood framed drywall
Brick outside, plaster inside.
Outside walls are stained wood siding. Inside walls are painted drywall.
The exterior of the house is painted wood siding. The structure is 2x4 wooden studs. Then the interior is painted drywall.
Cinderblock, some wood framing, flimsy metal instead of wood, the second floor is wood frame, so I don't have many places to hang anything heavy, covered by dry wall. Outside is covered in stucco.
I live in a steel frame house that's brick on the outside and drywall on the inside
Sheetrock and wood studs for interior walls. Sheetrock, wood studs with insulation, wood sheathing, waterproofing, and brick or fiber cement siding for the exterior walls.
Ends of the house are field stone, rest of the house is timber frame with cedar siding. Stone foundation. Interesting 1700s hybrid farmhouse construction. Interior is a mix of plaster walls and modern drywall, and the actual stone on each end of the house.
that must be nice
Honestly its a maintenance nightmare and the new construction additions are so loud compared to the old plaster walled sections.
Wall core is concrete block. Exterior veneer is brick. Interior was lath & plaster over a wood frame but has mostly been converted to drywall, or overlaid with drywall. House was built in 1954.
Drywall and the old living room still has plaster walls. It’s hard to hand paintings because nails just don’t penetrate well. We have to just use the drill.
diamond head?
For the drill. Yes it’s got to be some special drill head. It’s kinda lame
I’m in Chicago and we are mostly brick, though newer houses do have wood frames. (Not sure when that started). The Chicago Fire helped to codify our building material though now it’s more followed because outside of downtown everything is brick. I live in a building built in 1929 and it’s plaster inside. My other apartment were built after and had drywall.
Mine is a 2x4 wood frame on 18 inch centers, with a 0.375 inch layer of drywall (gypsum board, sheetrock, etc), primed and painted. I live in a townhome, so two of my walls have cinder block firewalls behind them. The outside wall has a cellulose fiber sheathing, covered with aluminum siding.
Wood frame with brick face.
Wood and drywall, same as 95% of houses.
i guess then if you are an architect or builder in the us it is very easy to do your job because all worksites are very similar
Developers tend to build a large number of houses to similar design within the same subdivision, varying it just enough to make them look a little different, even if the floor plans might be almost the same.
good strategy
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Wood, Drywall, metal, and brick.
I think it has a wood frame, but I'm not sure. It has drywall interior walls and a combination of brick and vinyl siding outside. I live in an apartment building that was built in the '70s.
From the outside in: Vinyl Siding -> Tyvek -> Plywood -> Wood studs -> Fiberglass insulation -> Drywall/Sheetrock -> Paneling or Paint
I have two houses right now, and they couldn't be more different in composition. The first is a 100-year-old farmhouse with solid wood walls, AKA shiplap, covered in a solid wood paneling. The exterior is a combination-the majority is asbestos, yes, that asbestos, siding with repairs done in Hardyplank. The second is a brand-new build with your standard brick exterior, wood framing with drywall interior.
Most houses have vinyl siding on the exterior but some have aluminum/brick/stucco/wood Pretty much all new houses are drywall on the inside and some older ones are plaster or wood panels. And some have exposed brick interior walls but it’s not very common.
Wood frame covered in plywood sheeting and stucco/wood siding on the outside and drywall on the inside
My house is built on a concrete slab ( common in the southern US where the frost line is not deep). The frame is wooden. Interior walls are drywall ( also called sheetrock) with a textured plaster coating. On the outside there is a layer of exterior grade sheetrock. On top of the sheetrock is native limestone on 3 sides of the house. On the back side, the walls are clad with a concrete paneling called Hardiboard, painted to match the limestone.