it's not only due to concrete but considering erosion and buoyancy of soil in water. how would earthquake proof houses behave in a situation like this? th-cam.com/video/Eo7EmIhJ9mM/w-d-xo.html
The Majority of homes built in Florida are concrete block reinforced tie beam. At least after 1992. Even if you build it for 200 mph winds unless it's elevated with break away bottom floor all bets are off with 15-20 ft of water coming 3-5 miles inland.
the biggest problem is that the only way to ensure that your house is even built to its design specifications is to do it yourself. if the rebuilding effort has proven anything, its that most construction companies around here do not have quality workers that can be relied upon to do their job right and not take shortcuts. our family got lucky. a few years back, we'd upgraded all the windows in our house to some much higher quality windows. during the process, the company that was replacing our windows discovered that the original construction had not been done properly. the original workers hadnt even screwed the frames in place. the original windows were already supposed to be impact and wind resistant and the house was supposedly originally rated for 130mph, so we were mostly upgrading for the improved thermal qualities of these new windows. but the original window frames were apparently only being held in place by glue and the house's siding and insulation, not even close to being up to code. and there was no way to tell until they were actually taking them out. I think, like us, and mostly for the insurance discounts, most of our neighbors had also had other types of retrofitting done to better secure the roof and improve the wind resistance ratings, but many of the other houses in the neighborhood that had the same construction and design, with the original windows still in, ended up having their windows blow out, not because of the windows themselves breaking, but because of the frames coming loose. thanks to our new windows being properly installed, none of ours blew in, and our only damage was losing our fence, having most of our siding and shingles ripped off, and some minor structural roof damage where a tree fell on it. we had to gut the back rooms due to moisture damage from where the tree fell, but the house and all of its windows ultimately held up and, compared to our neighbors, our repairs have been relatively minor. during the still ongoing repairs, many of our neighbors have had to have several different roofing companies come out to replace the original shoddy repair work done by other companies after the storm. we seem to have gotten lucky so far on our roof repair, but we are currently in a legal battle to have another company come out to do our siding after the first company did shoddy work that is coming apart already, and also to have the first company pay for repairs to things that they broke while doing the siding, like our water softener that one of their workers apparently decided to stand on.
And yet you didn't notice another fundamental flaw the homeowner picked up on in another video: he banned vinyl. Classic siding's not strong enough. Remember the tale of the Three Little Pigs? His house is made of something slightly stronger than bricks. If yours is wood, beware. I'm not even certain that something large couldn't remove his roof, admittedly, but that's life.
yes, but the pretty girls in the video inferred that extra assurance would be given by quality carpenters that can be relied upon to not take cost cutting short cuts. I'm not dumb, I like seeing pretty ladies in sales videos. Seeing them in the video makes me think those two women must be doing the engineering, construction and contracting all rolled up in one.
I live in tornado country. I'm building with insulated concrete forms you can set brackets for the roof trusses right in the cement. Then you just have them build the trusses for a little higher load to get the extra high strength for high wind resistance. Hip roofs are a must or the wind will peal the sheeting right off the roof.
HIP roofs are a huge insurance discount as well. I’m an agent in Fl and as long as the property appraiser website states it or you have a photo you can get the discount
Dude, for $1M, you should have a concrete house with a gold-coated toilet. In the US, a bunch of useless people are involved in the house building process, and they're ripping everyone off.
this man deserves to have his home rebuild funded by tax dollars.... his no-expense-spared approach has set an amazing example for others to follow. his investment will save millions of dollars and innumerable heartaches in the future. kudos to you sir, what a man!!!
Exactly. Don't buy any crappy wood houses. Make sure it's concrete, steel, or brick if you live in the south coastal area. Also, don't buy ridiculously expensive (sometimes 10K/year) hurricane insurance and use that money to upgrade your house.
New codes are sufficient. Look at other homes built on the east end of Mexico beach. The home shown devastated had an engineered foundation required by FEMA but the upper structure was built under the Southern Standard Building Code and not engineered.
Go check the specs, I'd expect 15' or more, as surge can wash the footings away. One advantage of a concrete base is it's too heavy to shift, of course, as the base plates all around testify. Just keep height less than the least dimension of that, so it can't be toppled.
No lol!! Concrete form, much better! With the strength of ICF you don't have to have a round house. I I've got an ICF house and have been through two monster cat 5 hurricanes with absolutely no damage except the landscape looked like a bomb had gone off!
IT SHOULD BE MANDATORY LIKE IN DADE COUNTY [ MIAMI ] ALL CONSTRUCTION AFTER ANDREW MUST BE CONCRETE BLOCK PERIOD ! COMMON SENSE TELLS YOU THAT AND INSURANCE CO'S NEED TO ENFORCE IT ALSO.
Freedom of choice is more important. Let the open market determine how homes should be built. Don't price people out of the area that are willing to take the risk. The open market has done a great job at addressing this risk with insurance to pay for it over time rather than upfront in time and materials.
@@JelMain It was a self sustained building that was air tight and had its own oxygen supply with a covering dome that protect the house from the outside elements. It wasn't built like a regular house like we see in the neighborhoods it was actually built in a futuristic elongated figure.
@@charlesrodriguez7984 It's the roof tiles. Replace that with something heavier (ie tiles embedded in thin reinforced concrete) and you might have a starter. Probably cheaper than the trusses, too. Humidity could be an issue, though.
CHANGE THE BUILDING CODE TO BE PREPARED TO HURRICANES. ELEVATED FIRST FLOOR, HURRICANE WINDOWS AND ROLL SHUTTERS, HURRICANE TIES TO STOP THE ROOF FROM BLOWING OFF😂
I think insurance companies are FINALLY smartening up.
The should change building code in to REQUIRE these building methods in shoreline areas.
Almost every European watching this: "Because it was built with concrete like normal people, instead of building it out of paper."
Not just European, majority of world makes houses like that.
@@Songs-lr4wt because of availability of the resources.
it's not only due to concrete but considering erosion and buoyancy of soil in water.
how would earthquake proof houses behave in a situation like this?
th-cam.com/video/Eo7EmIhJ9mM/w-d-xo.html
The Majority of homes built in Florida are concrete block reinforced tie beam. At least after 1992. Even if you build it for 200 mph winds unless it's elevated with break away bottom floor all bets are off with 15-20 ft of water coming 3-5 miles inland.
@@charlesrodriguez7984 No shortage of concrete and aggregate - just brains.
the biggest problem is that the only way to ensure that your house is even built to its design specifications is to do it yourself. if the rebuilding effort has proven anything, its that most construction companies around here do not have quality workers that can be relied upon to do their job right and not take shortcuts.
our family got lucky. a few years back, we'd upgraded all the windows in our house to some much higher quality windows. during the process, the company that was replacing our windows discovered that the original construction had not been done properly. the original workers hadnt even screwed the frames in place. the original windows were already supposed to be impact and wind resistant and the house was supposedly originally rated for 130mph, so we were mostly upgrading for the improved thermal qualities of these new windows. but the original window frames were apparently only being held in place by glue and the house's siding and insulation, not even close to being up to code. and there was no way to tell until they were actually taking them out.
I think, like us, and mostly for the insurance discounts, most of our neighbors had also had other types of retrofitting done to better secure the roof and improve the wind resistance ratings, but many of the other houses in the neighborhood that had the same construction and design, with the original windows still in, ended up having their windows blow out, not because of the windows themselves breaking, but because of the frames coming loose.
thanks to our new windows being properly installed, none of ours blew in, and our only damage was losing our fence, having most of our siding and shingles ripped off, and some minor structural roof damage where a tree fell on it. we had to gut the back rooms due to moisture damage from where the tree fell, but the house and all of its windows ultimately held up and, compared to our neighbors, our repairs have been relatively minor.
during the still ongoing repairs, many of our neighbors have had to have several different roofing companies come out to replace the original shoddy repair work done by other companies after the storm. we seem to have gotten lucky so far on our roof repair, but we are currently in a legal battle to have another company come out to do our siding after the first company did shoddy work that is coming apart already, and also to have the first company pay for repairs to things that they broke while doing the siding, like our water softener that one of their workers apparently decided to stand on.
And yet you didn't notice another fundamental flaw the homeowner picked up on in another video: he banned vinyl. Classic siding's not strong enough. Remember the tale of the Three Little Pigs? His house is made of something slightly stronger than bricks. If yours is wood, beware. I'm not even certain that something large couldn't remove his roof, admittedly, but that's life.
yes, but the pretty girls in the video inferred that extra assurance would be given by quality carpenters that can be relied upon to not take cost cutting short cuts. I'm not dumb, I like seeing pretty ladies in sales videos. Seeing them in the video makes me think those two women must be doing the engineering, construction and contracting all rolled up in one.
im not reading allat
Concrete and steel. That's it.
I can imagine how much money could be saved if all the houses were built this way in these high storm areas.
Likewise with electricity networks. We get floods in the UK too, the UPVC ducting in the streets is sealed and sumped.
`Full hip roof, concrete wall, storm windows...
I don't even know what a *full hip roof* is in 2023...🤣
I live in tornado country. I'm building with insulated concrete forms you can set brackets for the roof trusses right in the cement. Then you just have them build the trusses for a little higher load to get the extra high strength for high wind resistance. Hip roofs are a must or the wind will peal the sheeting right off the roof.
Its amazing it was well built . It must be nice . Hard work pays off .
I live on the Texas coast and it amazes me how many houses don't have piles and are built very weak.
HIP roofs are a huge insurance discount as well. I’m an agent in Fl and as long as the property appraiser website states it or you have a photo you can get the discount
answer: concrete.
And it saves our forests
@@fumiyama165 especially in hurricane prone areas.
These regular houses get blown to pieces while shipping container houses remain unscratched with only broken windows.
I would love to build a home like this on the beach one day it’ll come to pass🙏🏾
All houses should be contructed like this. Just in case anything. But that would cost extra money to buy a house like that.
I heard him say in an interview that the cost is marginal--a couple thousand dollars here or there--much cheaper than rebuilding from scratch.
Dude, for $1M, you should have a concrete house with a gold-coated toilet. In the US, a bunch of useless people are involved in the house building process, and they're ripping everyone off.
All of coastal Carolina , Louisiana , Florida ocean side. Gulf side.. Should be built that way ..🤷🏼♀️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️l know l know..
Build it right or build it twice 🤷🏻♂️
In the Philippines. Most houses are made in concrete.
Most homes in Mexico beach are very old, code is so different now. This was one of the newest homes built leading up to the hurricane
Lesson learned. Build it stronger. Spend the extra money and save by not having to pay hurricane insurance.
ok, now I just have to win the lottery so I can build my Hurricane House
Yeah really 😂
this man deserves to have his home rebuild funded by tax dollars....
his no-expense-spared approach has set an amazing example for others to follow. his investment will save millions of dollars and innumerable heartaches in the future. kudos to you sir, what a man!!!
The windows alone are probably worth more then my house
You don't need massive hurricane windows, you need roll bar window shutters.
Exactly. Don't buy any crappy wood houses. Make sure it's concrete, steel, or brick if you live in the south coastal area. Also, don't buy ridiculously expensive (sometimes 10K/year) hurricane insurance and use that money to upgrade your house.
New codes are sufficient. Look at other homes built on the east end of Mexico beach. The home shown devastated had an engineered foundation required by FEMA but the upper structure was built under the Southern Standard Building Code and not engineered.
2:55 how deep are the poles put into the ground?
Go check the specs, I'd expect 15' or more, as surge can wash the footings away. One advantage of a concrete base is it's too heavy to shift, of course, as the base plates all around testify. Just keep height less than the least dimension of that, so it can't be toppled.
I think they said 28' (I watched the whole show on channel 6 spectrum cable)
Think ROUND.
Is this a deltec home?
No lol!! Concrete form, much better! With the strength of ICF you don't have to have a round house. I I've got an ICF house and have been through two monster cat 5 hurricanes with absolutely no damage except the landscape looked like a bomb had gone off!
IT SHOULD BE MANDATORY LIKE IN DADE COUNTY [ MIAMI ] ALL CONSTRUCTION AFTER ANDREW MUST BE CONCRETE BLOCK PERIOD ! COMMON SENSE TELLS YOU THAT AND INSURANCE CO'S NEED TO ENFORCE IT ALSO.
Freedom of choice is more important. Let the open market determine how homes should be built. Don't price people out of the area that are willing to take the risk. The open market has done a great job at addressing this risk with insurance to pay for it over time rather than upfront in time and materials.
They were lucky. Champlain Towers North and West are just asking for it.
@@JelMain Probably better to just demolish the towers and leave everyone living in them homeless.
I saw a demo house that actually submerged into the ground during a hurricane, and nothing was touched.
Now show me one which didn't drown it's occupants when seawater turned it into a swimming pool.
@@JelMain It was a self sustained building that was air tight and had its own oxygen supply with a covering dome that protect the house from the outside elements. It wasn't built like a regular house like we see in the neighborhoods it was actually built in a futuristic elongated figure.
I need help building amphibious homes for people to survive tsunami.
Why don't they build the black box out of that house?
What about a tornado though, that house won't survive that!
Up to EF3…
@@charlesrodriguez7984 It's the roof tiles. Replace that with something heavier (ie tiles embedded in thin reinforced concrete) and you might have a starter. Probably cheaper than the trusses, too. Humidity could be an issue, though.
No ugly 3D printed house is going to survive a cat 5 hurricane. Larry, Moe, and Curly.
Easy to do this when you got the $$$$$$$
Minimum housing code compliance alone is not enough here. 😄
It is time to build like Mexicans houses, concrete and wire, it is over drywall and wood in those areas.
CHANGE THE BUILDING CODE TO BE PREPARED TO HURRICANES. ELEVATED FIRST FLOOR, HURRICANE WINDOWS AND ROLL SHUTTERS, HURRICANE TIES TO STOP THE ROOF FROM BLOWING OFF😂
Thanks for telling us nearly nothing.
utter insincerity ( -- there should be a coarse in "how not to come across like a plastic news channel reporter." )
Must be nice having money to burn😊