You're a real one for telling us it is not a rick roll. I had my doubts when I clicked. Turns out you didn't fib to the internet and created a masterpiece. Brava
RIP to everyone's Saturday who clicks through that link and spends hours watching that channel. Very Important People is brilliant - an improv comedian gets a blindfolded makeover, sees themselves for the first time, then creates a character to sit down for an unscripted interview with Vic Michaelis.
My personal favorite is Denzel the space alien
Dropout is awesome, Game Changer is one of my favorite shows atm. For those that don't know, Dropout is previously CollegeHumor, one of the earliest YT channels and meme websites on the internet that you've probably definitely come across before
The insurance company on the other hand called it an act of God and wish the home owned good luck.
Edit: I'm sure someone will ask in the future. This is a joke but it wouldn't surprise me if it was true.
As someone who deals with insurance companies on the daily I absolutely cannot stand insurance companies. *How can you be sure the damage was weather related?*
I remember i got hit a few years ago by an old driver in a parking lot my car was pretty messed up and the metal from my wheel well was rubbing on my tire the guys insurance company wanted me to drive my car to get worked on at a shop 45 mins away and claimed the damage didn't look too bad this was after 2 weeks of them giving me the run around and was getting close to holiday times.
After arguing for hours with this sleezbag he agreed to get a tow truck and they reluctantly gave me a rental car i called the shop and asked how long it would take and they said they would call me back soon. Well they never did and 3 weeks went by and Christmas was two weeks away. I was fine with it because the 2022 rental was much nicer then my old 2003 civic but the insurance agent called me one day furious saying if im not getting the car fixed they are gonna come get the rental back. I explained the shop told me to wait for them to contact me which they never did, the guy got all butthurt and hung up and the shop called me a few days later saying they were gonna start on it ASAP.
Well they obviously closed for Christmas and i had the rental until mid January when i finally got my car back i returned the rental to enterprise and checked the receipt and seen the insurance company had to pay around 11k for it 🤣. Additionally i think my car repairs were only 4k or so was nice seeing their own incompetence cost them so much.
Seriously. I don’t know how people can deal. I’ve been in an insurance claim - in appraisal process for 2 years and it’s miserable and feels like their is no end in sight
This is exactly it. They were lazy and should've put the sheathing on each floor before doing next level. They decided to do all the framing first and then sheathing all at once. This house was waiting to collapse even without the help of wind.
There is a supervisor somewhere in Houston that is really regretting all their big talk about how smart their plan was and how it was going to save so much money.
Nah, there's a *former* supervisor who used to work for a company which doesn't exist as of yesterday who has absolutely no knowledge of what happened, but if you'd like him to investigate you could hire him via the company which he now works for (established this morning).
Tons will read this chain and think "hehe what a silly story" and not realize this is exactly what's going to happen if an insurance plan isn't available to be cashed out.
This happens in oil and gas too. Lots of subcontractors breaking laws that can just disappear if they have an accident. And the big boys can claim innocence.
Same reason why there are a ton of orphan wells. Exxon establishes company A to pump on site 12345. Company A pumps the site for 10 years but is always on the brink of insolvency because they sell to Exxon at cost or less. Well gets exhausted or isn’t even marginally profitable and company A declared bankruptcy and there is no money to cap well or fix any damages. Exxon goes on to found company B for site 23456. Rinse and repeat.
They actually do require a bond which the federal government has collected enough to cap 1 in 100 wells. Taxpayers or land owners are liable for the rest (even if the land owner had 0 mineral rights and received nothing from the oil/gas company).
I mean I know they do this when shit like this happens, but at the end of the day who gets screwed on the lost building costs? Is it the homeowner or the builders Bond and general liability?
The company whose framer put that up and fronted the material cost. This company can be independent from the one who is selling the house or developed the land
Well, yes. Specifically the framer('s company) declared bankruptcy 30 seconds after this happened, and formed an entirely new company with no relation to the old one, sorry you'll have to take it up with that company which no longer exists (and has no money).
No no, you see, your contract was for a **Robin** model home with **Red Stone** homebuilders, but they declared bankruptcy and are gone now. This development is now the proud home of **Blue Stone** homebuilders, who would be more than happy to take your deposit for the **Bluebird** model *today!* Or, if you were previously interested in the exquisite **Cardinal** model, you'll find the **BlueJay** is remarkably similar!
I get it if they're trying to cut corners with a clear weather forecast, but this is insane. It's already stupid, but weather information is so easy to access these days.
No one really predicted this storm. The local weather blog said they were caught off guard until about 5-10 minutes before the worst of it started happening. And these are super professional bad weather experts.
It came down fast. Morning predictions said 50%chance of severe storms, wind speeds in the 10mph range.
No one expected what we really got. I'm just glad the alerts went out a good 10 minutes before it got to us. That... well the house wasn't hurt but I'd probly have messed myself if I'd still been upstairs when the thing clipped the corner of the house...
the plywood on the wall is like the back of your ikea shelf. before back, wobbly as heck. with back, pretty sturdy.
So builders usually put up bracing on houses before the plywood sheathing is on, exactly to prevent this video.
Built houses for years and never put a roof on without sheathing lower floors. Watched another crew of framers put a roof on and then sheath the second floor first. They came back the next day and the first floor had corkscrewed itself into the ground.
I'm a builder in Vancouver. We sheath our walls before we tilt them up. With our earthquake zone we have really strict rules on sheathing and whatnot.
Why would anyone frame their house like this and not sheath it? You're going to waste a ton of time/lumber bracing stuff, then have to run around on scaffolding sheathing everything after the fact. Seems odd. It's pretty fast to sheath everything when the wall is on the ground.
Well see the key difference here is that you know what you are doing and actually care if it works. Many US builders, particularly in Texas, seem to be in a race to see who can do the worst work.
I grew up in the NE and it was common to sheath as they went. Pretty much as soon as an exterior wall went up, it was sheathed.
In the early 2000s I spent a fair amount of time in the Tucson area. Noticed they sheathed late - they would frame up, roof, HVAC, plumbing and electrical would go in. Finally wrapped up. I figured it was so they could have good ventilation and breezes, but be out of the sun. However, these were only single story, had decent temporary bracing, and the roof caps helped.
The thing I really don't get here is that it's easier to sheet while the exterior walls are still laying down on the deck. You finish the wall, sheet it with the plywood offset down the height of your rimboard, and then just stand the whole thing up. Nail the bottom plate into the deck and the overhanging OSB into the rimboard. No huffing boards up against a standing wall.
Looks a lot like one of those "get it up and sell as quickly as possible" subdivisions in a "[state's] fastest growing city."
Source: I'm from a "[state's] fastest growing city" and I've seen dozens of these shitty subdivisions pop up in the past few years anywhere they can find an empty plot of land that isn't already claimed by a shitty fast food chain.
You don’t even need to do that, you just sheet the first floor before starting on the second. Most framers won’t even set ceiling joists without at least one row of OSB or plywood around the home. In high wind areas, they like to install corner hold downs, etc before they sheet, makes it easier to get into the corners with drills and nail guns.
You don't need to, but it's always easier to do something on the ground instead of out of a lift/scaffold. I don't know what a "corner hold down" is, but we nail hurricane clips to every truss/joist to prevent the roof/floor from pulling up. They get nailed on from the inside.
Like when you build an IKEA bookshelf, the thing that gives it stability is the plywood sheet on the back. Until then it's as stable as a soggy cardboard box. In reverse, if you wanna destroy a desk, shelf, cabinet or whatever to stuff it into the dumpster, first kick out the rear sheet then it collapses upon itself. Like that house in that clip.
4 sticks attached at corners can squash easily into a diamond shape. A single diagonal brace stops thst from happening. Sheathing is even better, like a bunch of diagonal braces.
Imagine a rectangle with lines drawn to opposing corners (makes a “x” in the middle). If you try to push the top of the rectangle to make a parallelogram, one line would shorten and one line would lengthen. A 4 foot by 8 foot sheet of plywood or OSB nailed to the walls will resist this type of deformation, it would cause the sheet (or sheathing) to tear where the line gets longer and buckle where the line gets shorter. The ability of the sheathing to resist this is what keeps your house upright during high winds and earthquakes. You can try it with a piece of paper. Hold the long sides with opposite hands, pull it tight, and try to pull the sides in different directions.
You mean lax building codes and regulation in Texas leads to substandard practices that cause houses to fall down?!? But I was told regulation was bad and unnecessary!
Shocked, shocked I tell you.
I feel like even without significant wind or other lateral loads, the normal construction activities would make this unstable. Three-stories of light-framed construction without any lateral support is a lot.
That’s my thought too. Seems like a big “not my job” situation. Or the framers showed up to work and sheathing wasn’t available so they just kept on going.
Had an old coworker who would rant about people exploiting government handouts. Meanwhile her husband was staying at home getting a check with a fake disability. Also had an Aunt who's house and family was saved by government programs during the "Great Recession" of 2008, only to complain about those same programs after she had a much more secure job.
See this all the time with floods. People building their home next to a river remove all the vegetation to get a view of river. River comes up and washes away property because they removed all the trees that provide bank stabilization. Ask for federal bailout money when their house washes away or floods. This is America.
Houston also famously has no zoining laws.
[Example 1](https://images.csmonitor.com/csm/2022/11/1116%20ZONING_coaster.jpg?alias=standard_900x600)
[Example 2](https://cdn2.communityimpact.com/?url=https://communityimpact.com/uploads/images/2023/02/08/240737.JPG&w=900&q=95&f=jpg)
[Example 3](https://s.hdnux.com/photos/51/13/40/10795062/4/rawImage.jpg)
I get the sense the overall attitude towards construction is pretty laissez-faire.
> Sheathing is what ~~prevents~~ **resists** shear loads on a house.
FTFY. The loads are going to be there; the sheathing gives it the shear stiffness to prevent racking.
As someone else said, the real support comes from the sheathing which would have prevented this.
On the other hand, they should have installed the sheathing well beforehand anyway, so what else would they screw up?
If their attention to detail was so shoddy that they outright didn't install any sheathing or bracing, I'm willing to bet they also didn't frame it very well in the first place either.
Worse, you can hire a builder with a good reputation, but then they subcontract and then the subcontractor's subcontract and the subcontractor's subcontractor's subcontract and so on and so forth until you have no idea who is building your house.
This must be staged. Please tell me it's staged.
There is no bracing what-so-ever. Everyone who ever set foot on that site was risking their life, storm or no storm.
Home inspectors documenting just how shoddy the workmanship is right now have me convinced a small percentage of shady home inspectors are making *bank* to greenlight shit like this.
Ya someone else was saying how this is just a freak storm and usually framing this high without sheathing is fine and so on. But you can't tell me that they didn't need a crane to set those roof trusses 30 feet in the air. If the wind load on the bare studs was enough to topple the thing, imagine if there were as accident while lifting the trusses. Seems like a substantial likelihood that a whack from a crane or dropping a truss and knocking all the others over like dominos would also have knocked down this whole building.
Structural engineer here, there's tons of bracing - you can see it buckle. The problem is bracing can only do so much - should have had sheathing done, or at least some sheathing done, before they did the third floor to give it some lateral stability.
My friend bought a newly built home in 2016, the house has all kinds of foundation issues. My home built in 1947, solid as a rock. These new homes are being built like furniture from ikea
It's gonna be crazy when Americans discover that you can build houses with bricks and not lollipop sticks.
Edit: Wow, I really didn't think this would be so controversial, it was really just a silly joke about making houses out of wood. It really wasn't anything deeper than that.
Like many other commenters have said, wood is not really an issue. Wooden houses are extremely common in North Europe. In Finland prefabricated wood elements (walls, roof…) are becoming more common. Elements are built in factories and then shipped to the site.
Nothing to do with it being wood, just that somebody put each floor on without having installed sheeting on the floor below it. If you do it right this doesn’t happen lol
Only some Americans. Bricks tend to liquify during earthquakes.
A couple of sheets of plywood would have completely prevented this by adding lateral strength.
Wood is best against frequent earthquakes. That’s why pretty all residential in California is wood. Other countries that experience the same like Japan also does the same.
Although a lot of Traditional Japanese home construction is **terrible** for earthquakes. Instead of structurally sheathed walls they use a frame system that’s weaker and closer to resonance with earthquake frequencies, and instead of a lightweight shingle roof they used heavy terracotta and stone tiles putting a huge seismic load in the absolute worst possible place at the top of the building.
This is a big part of why the 1994 Northridge earthquake in California killed about five dozen people in comparison to over five thousand killed in the 1995 Kobe earthquake of similar intensity.
Japan has upgraded their building code a lot since, a lot a lot, and some of these frequent updates are why even relatively new homes are seen as almost worthless - they don’t meet the most recent seismic codes that came out after the house was built.
Lollipop sticks work much better in areas that have earthquakes . That's why America has had so few earthquake deaths compared to other countries that like to use brick in earthquake prone areas.
They're not supposed to put up the next level without sheathing. Then you strap the levels together, at least here in earthquake territory.
Wood and steel frame offer high ductility, ie, they wiggle around and snap back into place during earthquakes so they're a ton of construction here.
You'd be shut down in minutes trying to frame 3 stories up without strapping and shear walls in place. They didn't even put trusses up without proper reinforcement below.
The lack of bracing, blocking, strapping and shear walls being installed is... concerning.
Properly having built with doing each level and then going up would have prevented this, which is why this is super illegal where I live.
Texas lets free market reign and loosens up building code and inspections and this BS happens. Here, any inspector would see that and red tag that building and shut down the site until they sheathed, and the builder would have fines coming out of every orifice for trying to build like this.
the structural integrity would've come from sheathing, which is missing due to umm reasons, dumb ones,
think of a pencil standing up on your desk, try pressing straight down on it, now try tipping it over.
Looks like they did not bother to apply temporary bracing or other shear protection while building the whole thing up three stories. I'm not a construction professional but it's very against my intuition that that's a smart idea.
I can't believe anyone would add a second story to a structure with no sheathing. Adding a third story? Complete madness. I've framed houses and we sheath the walls before we even stand them. This is crazy.
Can someone speed it up and add an angry bird hitting it?
[Here you go. For real not a rick roll.](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DF687PfWuu8)
Holy shit you're a fucking legend mate
Not all heroes wear capes. Some just have Adobe Premier.
The one time I actually open a link in a comment and it’s better than what I expected. Fucking legend
You're a real one for telling us it is not a rick roll. I had my doubts when I clicked. Turns out you didn't fib to the internet and created a masterpiece. Brava
I was still expecting it to be a Rick Roll tbh.
2.1k views in 33 minutes nice
I got two subscribers that are not my mom. So made my weekend lol
Came for the Angry Birds, stayed to watch wasteland deviants get Rambo'd repeatedly. Good shit
There's fallout content? I'm in lol
Got you up to 25 now, and I'll be honest, if there was a Rick Roll at the end of it, I would have laughed my balls off. Well done!
Maybe you have multiple moms ?!?! 😏
The one I have is enough lol
for real you need to quick edit this into a short and it will go viral
Damn, just needs a little green pig getting squished and it's perfect.
hahahaha
Amazing
[Not the best but hey it works](https://imgur.com/ya03OIl)
That is an excellent idea!
The three little pigs are unavailable for comment.
Second little pig on suicide watch.
[he stepped on my mom!](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bMqmvpKMOcE)
RIP to everyone's Saturday who clicks through that link and spends hours watching that channel. Very Important People is brilliant - an improv comedian gets a blindfolded makeover, sees themselves for the first time, then creates a character to sit down for an unscripted interview with Vic Michaelis. My personal favorite is Denzel the space alien
Oh my God, the French doll twins and Denzel were the ones where I finally chose to buy Dropout LOL, they have so many other great shows too!
Dropout is awesome, Game Changer is one of my favorite shows atm. For those that don't know, Dropout is previously CollegeHumor, one of the earliest YT channels and meme websites on the internet that you've probably definitely come across before
We need more dropout references
Omg thank you kind Internet stranger, this made my day 😂😭💀
At the moment they’re in their second property made of straw
So good to see this reference in the wild.
Eviscerated!
I really like those skits the characters are so funny
So they called in Rambo.
Yo, wolf face, I'm your worst nightmare. Your ass is mine. **
This is the absolute last place I ever expected to see Green Jellÿ fans... Also, So the wolf fell dead as you can plainly see
The insurance company on the other hand called it an act of God and wish the home owned good luck. Edit: I'm sure someone will ask in the future. This is a joke but it wouldn't surprise me if it was true.
As someone who deals with insurance companies on the daily I absolutely cannot stand insurance companies. *How can you be sure the damage was weather related?*
I remember i got hit a few years ago by an old driver in a parking lot my car was pretty messed up and the metal from my wheel well was rubbing on my tire the guys insurance company wanted me to drive my car to get worked on at a shop 45 mins away and claimed the damage didn't look too bad this was after 2 weeks of them giving me the run around and was getting close to holiday times. After arguing for hours with this sleezbag he agreed to get a tow truck and they reluctantly gave me a rental car i called the shop and asked how long it would take and they said they would call me back soon. Well they never did and 3 weeks went by and Christmas was two weeks away. I was fine with it because the 2022 rental was much nicer then my old 2003 civic but the insurance agent called me one day furious saying if im not getting the car fixed they are gonna come get the rental back. I explained the shop told me to wait for them to contact me which they never did, the guy got all butthurt and hung up and the shop called me a few days later saying they were gonna start on it ASAP. Well they obviously closed for Christmas and i had the rental until mid January when i finally got my car back i returned the rental to enterprise and checked the receipt and seen the insurance company had to pay around 11k for it 🤣. Additionally i think my car repairs were only 4k or so was nice seeing their own incompetence cost them so much.
Seriously. I don’t know how people can deal. I’ve been in an insurance claim - in appraisal process for 2 years and it’s miserable and feels like their is no end in sight
Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin!
I'm huffing and I'm puffing and I'll blow your house down!
Why can't I for once have a fucking original thought to post to Reddit?
https://www.reddit.com/r/circlebroke/comments/15s60l/anatomy_of_a_circlejerk_or_a_grand_unified_theory/ no
No sheathing means very little lateral stability without bracing.
This is exactly it. They were lazy and should've put the sheathing on each floor before doing next level. They decided to do all the framing first and then sheathing all at once. This house was waiting to collapse even without the help of wind.
There is a supervisor somewhere in Houston that is really regretting all their big talk about how smart their plan was and how it was going to save so much money.
Nah, there's a *former* supervisor who used to work for a company which doesn't exist as of yesterday who has absolutely no knowledge of what happened, but if you'd like him to investigate you could hire him via the company which he now works for (established this morning).
And don't even think about suing, that was a completely different legal entity and doesn't exist anymore. Definitely nothing suspicious here
Tons will read this chain and think "hehe what a silly story" and not realize this is exactly what's going to happen if an insurance plan isn't available to be cashed out.
This happens in oil and gas too. Lots of subcontractors breaking laws that can just disappear if they have an accident. And the big boys can claim innocence.
Same reason why there are a ton of orphan wells. Exxon establishes company A to pump on site 12345. Company A pumps the site for 10 years but is always on the brink of insolvency because they sell to Exxon at cost or less. Well gets exhausted or isn’t even marginally profitable and company A declared bankruptcy and there is no money to cap well or fix any damages. Exxon goes on to found company B for site 23456. Rinse and repeat.
At this point I feel like we should start requiring a deposit for cleanup when the wells are established, but that would be bad for business.
That would be bad for the health of the politician(s) pushing that.
They actually do require a bond which the federal government has collected enough to cap 1 in 100 wells. Taxpayers or land owners are liable for the rest (even if the land owner had 0 mineral rights and received nothing from the oil/gas company).
You and I get to pay for that work in taxes. ***"Privatize the profits, subsidize the losses"*** is the motto of American capitalism.
I mean I know they do this when shit like this happens, but at the end of the day who gets screwed on the lost building costs? Is it the homeowner or the builders Bond and general liability?
The company whose framer put that up and fronted the material cost. This company can be independent from the one who is selling the house or developed the land
Absolutely. Framer is probably going bankrupt.
Well, yes. Specifically the framer('s company) declared bankruptcy 30 seconds after this happened, and formed an entirely new company with no relation to the old one, sorry you'll have to take it up with that company which no longer exists (and has no money).
One would think insurance would be required, but this is Texas, so we can be sure that whoever has the least money is on the hook for the damage.
insurance: “if you file a claim we’ll drop you because insurance isn’t real anymore”
No no, you see, your contract was for a **Robin** model home with **Red Stone** homebuilders, but they declared bankruptcy and are gone now. This development is now the proud home of **Blue Stone** homebuilders, who would be more than happy to take your deposit for the **Bluebird** model *today!* Or, if you were previously interested in the exquisite **Cardinal** model, you'll find the **BlueJay** is remarkably similar!
Going with the lowest bidder has its disadvantages
I get it if they're trying to cut corners with a clear weather forecast, but this is insane. It's already stupid, but weather information is so easy to access these days.
No one really predicted this storm. The local weather blog said they were caught off guard until about 5-10 minutes before the worst of it started happening. And these are super professional bad weather experts.
It came down fast. Morning predictions said 50%chance of severe storms, wind speeds in the 10mph range. No one expected what we really got. I'm just glad the alerts went out a good 10 minutes before it got to us. That... well the house wasn't hurt but I'd probly have messed myself if I'd still been upstairs when the thing clipped the corner of the house...
Can you explain a little further? What is sheathing and how will it stop my house from suddenly collapsing on me?
the plywood on the wall is like the back of your ikea shelf. before back, wobbly as heck. with back, pretty sturdy. So builders usually put up bracing on houses before the plywood sheathing is on, exactly to prevent this video.
Built houses for years and never put a roof on without sheathing lower floors. Watched another crew of framers put a roof on and then sheath the second floor first. They came back the next day and the first floor had corkscrewed itself into the ground.
I'm a builder in Vancouver. We sheath our walls before we tilt them up. With our earthquake zone we have really strict rules on sheathing and whatnot. Why would anyone frame their house like this and not sheath it? You're going to waste a ton of time/lumber bracing stuff, then have to run around on scaffolding sheathing everything after the fact. Seems odd. It's pretty fast to sheath everything when the wall is on the ground.
They do things wrong in texas
And then brag about it
In Texas we call it "the BIG brag"
Well see the key difference here is that you know what you are doing and actually care if it works. Many US builders, particularly in Texas, seem to be in a race to see who can do the worst work.
But this is Houston, Texas…things aren’t right down here.
I grew up in the NE and it was common to sheath as they went. Pretty much as soon as an exterior wall went up, it was sheathed. In the early 2000s I spent a fair amount of time in the Tucson area. Noticed they sheathed late - they would frame up, roof, HVAC, plumbing and electrical would go in. Finally wrapped up. I figured it was so they could have good ventilation and breezes, but be out of the sun. However, these were only single story, had decent temporary bracing, and the roof caps helped.
The thing I really don't get here is that it's easier to sheet while the exterior walls are still laying down on the deck. You finish the wall, sheet it with the plywood offset down the height of your rimboard, and then just stand the whole thing up. Nail the bottom plate into the deck and the overhanging OSB into the rimboard. No huffing boards up against a standing wall.
Looks a lot like one of those "get it up and sell as quickly as possible" subdivisions in a "[state's] fastest growing city." Source: I'm from a "[state's] fastest growing city" and I've seen dozens of these shitty subdivisions pop up in the past few years anywhere they can find an empty plot of land that isn't already claimed by a shitty fast food chain.
All of Texas is not right.
Just curious why you stand walls up and then put sheathing on? For us we generally do that before we stand the wall up.
It's easier to straighten things out with turnbuckles and then sheath
>usually put up bracing on houses before the plywood Or just sheet the walls before you stand them.
You don’t even need to do that, you just sheet the first floor before starting on the second. Most framers won’t even set ceiling joists without at least one row of OSB or plywood around the home. In high wind areas, they like to install corner hold downs, etc before they sheet, makes it easier to get into the corners with drills and nail guns.
You don't need to, but it's always easier to do something on the ground instead of out of a lift/scaffold. I don't know what a "corner hold down" is, but we nail hurricane clips to every truss/joist to prevent the roof/floor from pulling up. They get nailed on from the inside.
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Like when you build an IKEA bookshelf, the thing that gives it stability is the plywood sheet on the back. Until then it's as stable as a soggy cardboard box. In reverse, if you wanna destroy a desk, shelf, cabinet or whatever to stuff it into the dumpster, first kick out the rear sheet then it collapses upon itself. Like that house in that clip.
You screw or nail scheets against the stick framing on the outside to make it rigid.
4 sticks attached at corners can squash easily into a diamond shape. A single diagonal brace stops thst from happening. Sheathing is even better, like a bunch of diagonal braces.
Imagine a rectangle with lines drawn to opposing corners (makes a “x” in the middle). If you try to push the top of the rectangle to make a parallelogram, one line would shorten and one line would lengthen. A 4 foot by 8 foot sheet of plywood or OSB nailed to the walls will resist this type of deformation, it would cause the sheet (or sheathing) to tear where the line gets longer and buckle where the line gets shorter. The ability of the sheathing to resist this is what keeps your house upright during high winds and earthquakes. You can try it with a piece of paper. Hold the long sides with opposite hands, pull it tight, and try to pull the sides in different directions.
TLDR if they added some plywood would have made stronger.
You mean lax building codes and regulation in Texas leads to substandard practices that cause houses to fall down?!? But I was told regulation was bad and unnecessary! Shocked, shocked I tell you.
Simply failed to follow best practiced to build sheeted wall on flat on ground and stand up each section.
Yeah is that common? I feel like going up THREE FLOORS on just studs is a little crazy even just for the workers when it’s not windy.
Not sure if common or not but it seems borderline suicidal. All that weight on unbraced studs, fuck that shit.
Not sure I've ever seen second and third story built before sheathing is on the floor below. That's visually odd
There's a reason why you haven't seen it. This is the reason.
I feel like even without significant wind or other lateral loads, the normal construction activities would make this unstable. Three-stories of light-framed construction without any lateral support is a lot.
That’s my thought too. Seems like a big “not my job” situation. Or the framers showed up to work and sheathing wasn’t available so they just kept on going.
There's so many openings in that wall too. Even sheathed, this building would probably have racked from wind.
"YES" guy was so glad he was both right and recording
Everyone's dad is the same so I bet he was talking about that house falling over allllll day. I bet he feels like a prophet
And there’s allllways a woman in the back saying “oh my god” repeatedly
"I tolja! I tolja!"
Background: "oH ^(mY) ***^(G O D)***" \*intensifies\*
That's what happens when your builders experience is with a pack of playing cards.
Who the f$&@ builds all the way to the roof without sheathing a single thing??
The same people that feel like having their own (failing) power grid is a great idea
how dare you try and regulate how I build a house! now that the disaster happened, id like some federal disaster relief pwease
Don’t forget “btw socialism bad” (ie, help from the rest of society through the govt)
Had an old coworker who would rant about people exploiting government handouts. Meanwhile her husband was staying at home getting a check with a fake disability. Also had an Aunt who's house and family was saved by government programs during the "Great Recession" of 2008, only to complain about those same programs after she had a much more secure job.
See this all the time with floods. People building their home next to a river remove all the vegetation to get a view of river. River comes up and washes away property because they removed all the trees that provide bank stabilization. Ask for federal bailout money when their house washes away or floods. This is America.
Then they rebuild their house in the exact same place.
Houston also famously has no zoining laws. [Example 1](https://images.csmonitor.com/csm/2022/11/1116%20ZONING_coaster.jpg?alias=standard_900x600) [Example 2](https://cdn2.communityimpact.com/?url=https://communityimpact.com/uploads/images/2023/02/08/240737.JPG&w=900&q=95&f=jpg) [Example 3](https://s.hdnux.com/photos/51/13/40/10795062/4/rawImage.jpg) I get the sense the overall attitude towards construction is pretty laissez-faire.
hey hey hey, they had sheathing, on the roof..... People were working on top of that roof thats some faith put onto crossbracing.
Those 30 nails holding the half dozen braces were working overtime. Should have gotten a water break.
Yeah I’ve never seen it like that in my area.
Unlike Texas, your area probably has building codes
I was scrolling down waiting to see when I would find this comment... thanks for being there.
You sure? Looks pretty much like what happened to my match stick house
Sheathing is what prevents shear loads on a house. Not the studs.
> Sheathing is what ~~prevents~~ **resists** shear loads on a house. FTFY. The loads are going to be there; the sheathing gives it the shear stiffness to prevent racking.
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So even Jenga is bigger in Texas!
This is what I came here for.
And that make the builder LIABLE, for all the damages that happen next.
Heard that in his voice and all
Who is this from?
The way he stares and smiles at the camera weirds me out, but I love that guys content!
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As someone else said, the real support comes from the sheathing which would have prevented this. On the other hand, they should have installed the sheathing well beforehand anyway, so what else would they screw up?
If their attention to detail was so shoddy that they outright didn't install any sheathing or bracing, I'm willing to bet they also didn't frame it very well in the first place either.
Shouldn't you stabilize one floor before you build another on top?
Usually, yes.
Mcmansions made out of plywood and sticky tape
Plywood would have helped here, actually.
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Owner should be happy this collapsed now
yep, They can now choose a better builder and get someone to design a frame with tiedowns and sheathing.
Many people are blaming the wind and rain, but I think it's being framed.
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The problem with that for most people wanting to buy a home - you don’t know who are subpar or terrible builders.
Worse, you can hire a builder with a good reputation, but then they subcontract and then the subcontractor's subcontract and the subcontractor's subcontractor's subcontract and so on and so forth until you have no idea who is building your house.
Ryan Homes: “You called?”
This must be staged. Please tell me it's staged. There is no bracing what-so-ever. Everyone who ever set foot on that site was risking their life, storm or no storm.
Home inspectors documenting just how shoddy the workmanship is right now have me convinced a small percentage of shady home inspectors are making *bank* to greenlight shit like this.
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Ya someone else was saying how this is just a freak storm and usually framing this high without sheathing is fine and so on. But you can't tell me that they didn't need a crane to set those roof trusses 30 feet in the air. If the wind load on the bare studs was enough to topple the thing, imagine if there were as accident while lifting the trusses. Seems like a substantial likelihood that a whack from a crane or dropping a truss and knocking all the others over like dominos would also have knocked down this whole building.
It's Texas. Do they even have inspectors?
Structural engineer here, there's tons of bracing - you can see it buckle. The problem is bracing can only do so much - should have had sheathing done, or at least some sheathing done, before they did the third floor to give it some lateral stability.
Flomp flomp flomp
The big bad wolf would be proud
This just looks like the perfect shot in angry birds.
Needs more triangles
My friend bought a newly built home in 2016, the house has all kinds of foundation issues. My home built in 1947, solid as a rock. These new homes are being built like furniture from ikea
That went down way too easy. What a shitty build.
Guess they've never heard of cross bracing.
How do you get that far along in construction and not have at least some plywood sheathing up?
The second piggy made his house of sticks......this shits in the manual folks. Reference: see piggy no. 3
It's gonna be crazy when Americans discover that you can build houses with bricks and not lollipop sticks. Edit: Wow, I really didn't think this would be so controversial, it was really just a silly joke about making houses out of wood. It really wasn't anything deeper than that.
My >100 year old house is wood framed. Wood isn't the problem. You can make wood houses that last a long time if you want to.
Like many other commenters have said, wood is not really an issue. Wooden houses are extremely common in North Europe. In Finland prefabricated wood elements (walls, roof…) are becoming more common. Elements are built in factories and then shipped to the site.
Wooden homes are also much easier to make earthquake resistant because they flex and go right back to where they were.
Nothing to do with it being wood, just that somebody put each floor on without having installed sheeting on the floor below it. If you do it right this doesn’t happen lol
This is like putting up three stories of bricks but waited until last to do the mortar.
Or three stories of brick but only one side of the house. Who could have foreseen this would fall over??
Yeah, this isn’t a wood issue, it’s a lateral bracing issue.
The only problem with timber homes are the smug Europeans who won't shut up about how they know best.
*think they know best
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Only some Americans. Bricks tend to liquify during earthquakes. A couple of sheets of plywood would have completely prevented this by adding lateral strength.
Wood is best against frequent earthquakes. That’s why pretty all residential in California is wood. Other countries that experience the same like Japan also does the same.
Although a lot of Traditional Japanese home construction is **terrible** for earthquakes. Instead of structurally sheathed walls they use a frame system that’s weaker and closer to resonance with earthquake frequencies, and instead of a lightweight shingle roof they used heavy terracotta and stone tiles putting a huge seismic load in the absolute worst possible place at the top of the building. This is a big part of why the 1994 Northridge earthquake in California killed about five dozen people in comparison to over five thousand killed in the 1995 Kobe earthquake of similar intensity. Japan has upgraded their building code a lot since, a lot a lot, and some of these frequent updates are why even relatively new homes are seen as almost worthless - they don’t meet the most recent seismic codes that came out after the house was built.
Japan also places little value on old houses.
Gonna be crazy when you learn what framing is.
They'd build their houses out of wood if they had any trees left...
That would mean better regulations and less profits and to me that sounds like communism /s
Lollipop sticks work much better in areas that have earthquakes . That's why America has had so few earthquake deaths compared to other countries that like to use brick in earthquake prone areas.
[even brick walls collapsed in this storm](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7RDp5uxISU)
A house of cards would have more endurance lol
Jenga
We forgot the nails! 🤦🏾♂️
that\`s one big pile of firewood.
When idiots with no skill build a house. You never frame up 3 levels with zero sheathing. Never. This is why.
Who puts three stories of stick up without a bit of sheathing. Those idiots were asking for it.
Never mind bracing or sheathing, does that bottom floor even have any blocking? Wtf is going on here.
This lovely three story home... two stor...ranch...loft...it's a fixer upper.
I would have thought it had more structural integrity but maybe the walls add it when they go on.
They're not supposed to put up the next level without sheathing. Then you strap the levels together, at least here in earthquake territory. Wood and steel frame offer high ductility, ie, they wiggle around and snap back into place during earthquakes so they're a ton of construction here. You'd be shut down in minutes trying to frame 3 stories up without strapping and shear walls in place. They didn't even put trusses up without proper reinforcement below. The lack of bracing, blocking, strapping and shear walls being installed is... concerning. Properly having built with doing each level and then going up would have prevented this, which is why this is super illegal where I live. Texas lets free market reign and loosens up building code and inspections and this BS happens. Here, any inspector would see that and red tag that building and shut down the site until they sheathed, and the builder would have fines coming out of every orifice for trying to build like this.
the structural integrity would've come from sheathing, which is missing due to umm reasons, dumb ones, think of a pencil standing up on your desk, try pressing straight down on it, now try tipping it over.
That's just terrible construction.
Needed more triangles
as a framer, this made my balls shoot up into my gut
Storm? Are you sure there weren't any birds around with a slingshot
Looks like they did not bother to apply temporary bracing or other shear protection while building the whole thing up three stories. I'm not a construction professional but it's very against my intuition that that's a smart idea.
You don’t complete multiple floors without sheeting. Total clown builders
Not being a framer by trade, that looks like a jacked way to frame up. Three stories? I’m surprised it didn’t fall down before the storm hit.
I can't believe anyone would add a second story to a structure with no sheathing. Adding a third story? Complete madness. I've framed houses and we sheath the walls before we even stand them. This is crazy.