This surprised me in American homes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 พ.ย. 2022
- When I moved to California, I noticed that all the houses here are built of wood and cardboard. I decided to find out why this is so. There are several reasons for this, which I will cover in this video.
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What do you think about building houses in the US? What material is better?
@@iheartmygummybear she did mention it tho
@@iheartmygummybear you sound silly
The houses in California need to be made from wood due to earthquakes.
Per code (due to earthquakes), you cannot build a house from bricks or stone because that it dangerous. You can do a façade of stone or brick (that is only about a fourth of the brick or stone.
You can build a fence from brick or stone.
In the Midwest and the east coast, you can build houses out of bricks, cinder blocks, and stone.
So then what’s the code for hurricanes and tornados? Cuz it looks like it’s stupidly wood too,
Look at florida right now, tons of wooden house and roof debris to be cleaned up. If most of those people had brick houses they wouldn’t be just looking at the empty spot where their house was
In Texas, we use bricks for a reason that I have no idea, I always thought everyone used bricks because of sturdiness I guess
You’re not paying for the structure. You’re paying for location. School districts, prestigious area etc. the house can be a shed and still be millions.
Location and the land!
yeah literally i live in silicon valley as well. the land is expensive not the materials
Yeah, but still, it’s not just the cheapest ones. Even the most expensive houses in Cali are made of wood
She's not smart enough to understand that
Yep agree 💯% a beautiful mansion in a middle of nowhere cost you nothing
Yes !I am from Europe and still can't understand this .....houses looks really cheap made , but are crazy expensive
The houses on California don’t look “cheap made”. There are many styles from charming bangalôs to very modern. I’m from Brazil, and I think the houses there, even thou made of bricks and cement, are ugly. I don’t even think the few rich have pretty houses, architecturally speaking. They have very bad taste . Sorry. True.
In Skandinavija also houses are wood
@@izzycruz1200 not the same in europe. You can have the most beautiful houses made in concrete. But I mean we cannot have Wood houses with our weather. Makes no sense in europe.
@@Mdias8923 most of the houses in Europe are very charming.
because we have jobs 😆🤣😂🤣😂
That’s also only mainly in certain geographical areas. I live on the east coast and all the houses around me are brick/stone
must be a historical district
Here in Connecticut they're all still wood lol
I’m on the east coast too. Most of the houses aren’t brick or stone. They’re wood.
Nah, that's just the exterior. Still wooden frame.
It’s a woman from Europe talking about construction. What do you expect
As an Indian, I too, found the wooden houses quite weird and maybe even not as safe as our cement and brick houses here in India.
@@jninja25 I was born and brought up in the same house where my dad was also born and brought. My grandfather grew up having it as one of his many houses also, making it a 80-90 year old house. There are water patches sure (nothing a good painting session every few years can’t fix!) but the walls and the ceiling are still standing strong and tall.
lol if you have stone or brick in california when there’s an earthquake it’s definitely not safe lol
I live in a earthquake prone area. We still use concrete and bricks. We just don't build them tall.
Edit: correcting auto correct.
@@xSimranGuptax The Wood houses are completely safe the oldest house on my street was built in 1857 and it was made entirely out of wood and it still standing to this day
@@tjmartin8516 Probably because it's made with old wood. Lumber nowadays are mostly new growth and aren't as sturdy.
I’ve lived in America my entire life and honestly, my dream home is a concrete home!! People in Florida almost always have concrete homes because they are sturdy during hurricanes, which happen often there, they are resistant to mold, resistant to termites, and resistant to other little animals that try to get into your house! Lol
This! It really doesn't make sense to build wooden houses in hurricane areas.
This! Thank you. I think wooden houses are a scam. It might have been okay back in the day, but now we can do better and most of all know better…
Yes! I have one house and 2 apts. All concrete! But they cost much more here. Regards.
I live in Florida, as we do not have concrete homes they're definitely wood with a concrete block facade
@@MrAndreCoutinhoall our homes are wood, and go to a brand new neighborhood after a hurricane and you'll see practically no damage. People just have a false perception about wood, not to mention it's not readily available everywhere.
You live in one of the most expensive locations in the US. You could have a trailer there and it would probably be $2m at least.
There aren’t many trailer parks in Silicon Valley.
@@KellyS_77 definitely not I’m just saying that the price for even a small house is out of line with most of the country
This ☝🏻 yes! It’s millions of dollars because you live Los Altos 😂
I found a trailer from the 70's in San Diego last year, and they wanted 650k for it 😂 homes are crazy expensive out there
This is why you should never get your information from social influencers 🙄
I agree. Brick houses would be pointless and dangerous in California. I don't understand a lot of laws, but I understand why they prohibit the construction of new brick buildings.
Some people come to America then suddenly think they know everything lol
The value is in the land and location, not the material of the home. Hope that helps.
I literally just commented on that, wooden houses in America by people who live in tornado alley and hurricane zones, having your house and roof blow away several times, it doesn’t make sense.
In the caribbean its concrete houses and steel roofs, unless you don’t have much money, then you live in a little “board” house. It doesnt make sense
Let's not forget about the furniture and others inside the house. It's not that cheap even with wooden house.
She lives in earthquake country, not a tornado or hurricane prone area
@@NapaCat I’m speaking about wood houses in America in general
Might be easier to escape if you're trapped under?
@@benchoflemons398 and if you have a steel roof, that well stuck to the house in comcrete in wont blow off.
You can’t draw a conclusion about an entire country based on one California neighborhood.
Well hate to burst ur bubble but that applies everywhere
lol 92% of houses in the US are wood framed
@@fursher i understand you are referring to the framing. No disagreement there
@@fursherIt doesn't especially since California has earthquakes...it wouldn't work in the rest of the country though.
What I'm finding really surprising is how she's saying "a FIIIIIIIIIVE MAGNATUDE earthquake" like anyone in CA even notices a 5 beyond checking if the ice cubes moved in our glasses.
Yes. Like, if things don't fall off shelves, windows don't break, and the power is still on, we really don't care. No big deal. Just roll over and go back to sleep.
Came here to say the same. From New Zealand and often you only know about earthquakes of that magnitude when you read that it happened 😅😂
They are pretty localised too - that M5 did not hit all of California, just specific places.
If it’s not at least a 7 why are we talking about it?
Yes and shes talking about it being a reason for building wood.. in Turkey we are also very earthquake prone yet houses are all brick and cement, it is a matter of building well. Since the US seems to have like only 5 civil engineers I doubt its their area of expertise
It’s partially also the area you’re in! California has a LOT of earthquakes and wood just moves better and lasts longer in an environment where the earth moves a lot
Wood Lasts longer than concrete?
@@kevinfernandez9999 in quake zones, yes.
Not just about the wood. It's the cost of the lot, permits, size of the house, complexity of the floor plan and types of luxury finishes that add to the total cost of the house. BTW, Lumber has increased significantly in price.
They didn’t know about the three little pigs story 😂
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What's the story?
Yeah we do lol but she lives in California which has earthquakes so brick houses won't do much.
She definitely doesn’t know the rest of America and thinks that her lil happy bubble is the only America
Yeah she's annoying as hell. I live in the midwest and our houses are brick. Even in other parts of california, houses are made of stucco material.
@@gerald4535she’s talking about the structure, not the siding. Houses in the Midwest are wood framed even if they have brickwork.
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Totally agree with you lol I’m
Tired of Thai girl generalizing
Majority of homes in Florida are built from concrete block, sometimes called cinder block. Like a bunker with hurricane guidelines to withstand wind rain and flying debris. Extra bands to secure roofs.
They still are mostly wood
Ditto, major difference between block or frame houses. Huge difference in everything...including building materials
When my aunt first moved here her parents cried because they thought she must be so poor for having to live in a wooden house instead of a brick one
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If you come to Florida, especially the coastal cities, most newer houses are made out of concrete. It’s to be more stable in a hurricane and flash flooding! Also legit our 1st floor windows are “small missle proof” due to possible hurricane debris. Definitely depends on ur natural disaster now you build your home!
Yes! My moms house was built around 2000 and it’s concrete (she’s barely 5 miles from the gulf, it definitely had to be 😅). Her house just withstood almost cat 5 winds without any structural damage + her roof is new and nothing happened! Just her fence came down + some palm trees down. I was honestly SHOCKED! Just half a mile away, houses were wiped out (they weren’t made of concrete though, unfortunately). I’m so thankful the house is okay, we’ve put a lot of love into renovating it recently 😭
Oh yeah I live a good 30min from the coast, have a concrete house and just hunkered down during hurricane Irma, you still have to board up your windows tho because Floridian tradition I guess xD but I saw a tree hit the window and bounce off no damage it was amazing
Where I’m from is Texas, you really don’t see any houses that aren’t made from brick. In Arizona, where I live, most are made from stucco. Just depends where you live, most states are so personalized it’s like a bunch of different countries within the usa lol
They are sided with stucco but the framing is all wood . Thin stucco at that backed by styrofoam
I live in San Antonio. A majority of the houses are wood
"Made from stucco" ... Mmmmkay 🤪
I've lived all over the US. In Vegas, houses are made of concrete or have stucco siding. Denver, San Antonio hills (NOT the city), Tennessee and Oregon are mostly brick/stone. In Atlanta it seems to be mostly wood. Like you can't start a banana farm in Washington - different climates/altitude/location has different material needs. Old historical buildings and mansions, like city halls, courts, etc are generally made of brick or stone whereas victorian manors are typically made of wood. Some houses, like plantation era, have a mixture of both. a large majority of houses will rely on wood structure due to material price, time efficiency, ease of use and modern tech (plumbing/electrical wiring etc)
i also would like to point out that in the tornado valley a lot of houses have brick walls, then wood planks on either side. it makes the house more sturdy and better against tornadoes and strong winds
That's how I would build my house. I would also have a flat concrete roof, with a peaked shingle roof. Worse case, I have to replace the wood part of the roof, but the house itself would be fine.
I was born in the U.S. and always wondered the same and couldn't understand the reasoning, especially with the number of house fires each year. Thanks for the video!
Cut your door and you will find out that it is made of paper (cardboard), not even wood.
Same here & yet the U.S. often makes fun of other developing nations that build their homes out of concrete and assume that they’re “uneducated” or “third-world”
It’s embarrassing how proud this country can be smh
I'm from Canada where most houses are made of wood. The answer is that it simply is easier and cheaper to insulate.
This is an interesting topic. As a California native, when I see cement or brick homes, they look so dangerous to me, like I wouldn't be able to sleep soundly in them for fear of them turning to rubble in an earthquake. So perception really depends on life experience.
don't fires happen much more often (in CA), than earthquakes? I'd rather have a fire-resistant brick/cement home
Coming from near Toronto and visiting western Canada and Sacramento area various times, it was so strange not to see brick or stone veneer houses out west. Brick is timeless and beautiful. It was explained to me that due to earthquake risks the veneer of a home is very unlikely to be brick or stone.
Not true, look at other countries in earthquake zones, skyscrapers made of steel and concrete. Wooden houses are no good in floods, tornadoes, hurricanes or forest fires. Or where temp is very high or cold.
I live in Norways and wood is most common here too. When I travel abroad I miss it. Something about brick and stone houses gives me the ick.
I think it’s because I grew up in a basement and assume the standard would be the same and associate it with the cold, sooo many insects, barely any light and a stinky gas oven)
One of the contractors working on my house actually explained that one of the main reasons houses in the United States are made of wood instead concrete like in Mexico where he’s from is because it helps drive the economy. He said it’s actually a pretty smart thing because with wood things are constantly breaking quicker than a house made out of concrete making you spend money on materials and employing people to come fix it more often than not
It’s not the house cost it’s the land cost/value that makes a home worth millions
I was bewildered by the same thing. Hard time explaining to my Indian parents why these wooden homes are so expensive 😂
My brother owned a house in Los Altos for fifty years. Both of us had summer jobs framing houses just south of San Francisco back in the early 60s. Houses in Pacific that sold for $20K USD in 1963, now sell for $1.5M. It's the land they cost so much not the house.
A magnitude 5 earthquake is barely strong enough to wake up most long time Southern California residents.
It’s not just the value of the house (structure), it’s the value of the land. Remember… location, location, location 👍
,,,termites, mold, dry rot... thin steel is growing in use, like for barns and sheds.
Can't get past spending that much for wood... We need to tell the story of the Three Little Pigs again...
Rofl 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Huff, puff, house blown down.
yess
Yes, the history and environmental factors do matter. Just like in Norway there is a lot of wood here and people like to live in their natural environment. People enjoy the earthiness, peace and beauty that wood brings.
It's not the wood people are paying that much for. It's California. It is really expensive to live on the coasts of the US, but southern California is probably the most expensive. If you go elsewhere in the US, you will find homes of many different materials, almost all for much cheaper! And homes are built with different materials to withstand different weather/natural disasters. California has sooo many earthquakes and your house won't be worth anything if it collapses. Florida and the southeast get hurricanes every year which is a lot to contend with. The middle chunk of the country gets frequent tornadoes. The goal is to build things that won't be ripped apart when those things show up
Yeah here in South Africa our houses are made from brick and concrete ( older homes from stone). Roof structure is wooden in side but finished with shaped concrete type roof tiles. It takes some time to build but it’s sturdy and lasts forever
Wood is actually a far superior building material for many reasons. It is renewable, recyclable, and carbon positive. It it takes much less energy to produce, move, and manufacture. It burns in a much slower more predictable manner. It naturally insulates, and it is much more healthy to work with, not admitting any unhealthy dust or chemicals into the air when cutting. I just looked into this as well, and was surprised to hear all these things!
Thanks for explaining! I always wondered.
But they don’t last and need replacing, we have houses in the Uk that are 800 years old and still being lived in, now that’s sustainable.
@@Bonglecat agreed. I currently live in a 400 year old cottage in Scotland. But as for new builds, I still believe that timber is superior for the reasons listed above 😊
@@Bonglecat we also have houses in the US that are hundreds of years old
Family flies across the world to visit their daughter’s family and they end up discussing residential construction materials. My kind of people.
Was thrilled when my son married a lady who studied architecture as part of her degree. We can go on huge walks through suburbs, downtowns, anywhere, and spend most of our time talking about this stuff.
A match box , I would build a home like my parents and grandparents I've in . They've gone through bigger earth quakes and more often and a well planned , grounded and set home with survive many earth quakes and fires. Funny thing is , even the frames of the furniture survive. I think the type of wood that's used is important aswell. I forgot to mention that the home made take a long time to make . Most of the furniture is passed down from generations. So you have a house full of different and more expensive furniture made by wood that doesn't burn.
One word: EARTHQUAKE. You live in earthquake territory. If your house was made of concrete or stone or brick, instant death from being crushed to death.
Wrong. Texas has nothing to do with earthquakes and we still have exclusively wooden houses here
I have always wondered about this too as an Indian. I'm amazed how costly homes in US are that are made of wood and have hollow walls. Concrete, brick houses are more common everywhere else.
So when it's hot in India, you all sit in these hot boxes at night? Walls two or three feet thick can be great insulators in a heat wave of a few days and create cool interiors but most wouldn't be that solid. But over months of long. hot summer, surely they hold and radiate heat? Here in sub-tropical (and tropical) Australia, we like that timber and tin- roof houses set up off the ground allow air to circulate underneath and the materials cannot hold heat at the end of a hot day. No problem in winter because that's about sealing gaps and insulating your ceiling.
@@VanillaMacaron551Qe We have Air conditioner and Ventilation system ,
I used to ask as a kid why in hurricanes etc do people not recall the childrens story of the 3 little pigs.
Another thing to keep aware of in terms of what houses are made of is if the place gets alot of earthquakes (like California) wood is more flexible and is less likely to crack or have major damage as compared to concrete. Where I live (alaska) is pretty bad move to have a concrete house. Especially after the 2018 earthquake
I’m from the us and I live in a house made of wood and brick and it rains a lot here in Oklahoma so everyone paints the wood with water proof paint + paint primer which is pretty pricey but I think it’s worth it
Visit the Midwest, tons of brick homes here too. We also don’t have earthquakes normally.
It's actually very common in the non-earthquake states to have brick houses. In Texas, just about every casa is made of brick or with a brick facade
I live in Texas and this is false lol
😂 we have a hard time explaining it to ourselves
CA resident assumes all of America is like her neighborhood.
How embarrassing.
92% of new constructions in the US are wood framed sooo
The most annoying thing in American houses is very thin walls. In my country homes made from brick and concrete and it is very hard to hear your neighbor through the wall. Here if your neighbor sneeze you can hear it especially if you live in an apartment building.
The same thing is what I thought . Hauses out of wood so expansive? Here in Europe good houses are out of bricks or concrete. Only cheap houses are out of wood, so why so much paying for such cheap houses? And isolition is also not as good as it should be….
It also makes sense in most of the us because it tends to get really cold here in the winter and wood retains heat well.
Brick is far better. Brick walls can stabilize the interior temperature of your house when combined with insulation. It delays the movement of heat through the wall, which keeps your house warm for longer. In doing so, it reduces your utility bills. This means that the heat stays inside during winter and outside during summer.
Here in Bogota, Colombia, it's compulsory for buildings (including houses) to be earthquake-resistent, but they are made out of bricks, steel and concrete. Even though, I would rather be crushed by a piece of wood than a brick.
also another reason houses are built out of wood: people think it looks a lot better/more natural, it can be used in almost any style house.
Why is this russian oligarchist even getting time. She is already wealthy enough. Ugh her stuff is just off putting for the “unwealthy,” who she continues to remind, are beneath her.
Wooden houses are gorgeous.
Speak for yourself
I was wondering the same thing
Earthquakes.
Damn this is a question my 8 year old daughter would ask me.
Its pretty obvious lady. Real-estate is priced first and foremost upon location, then Labor, and lastly material.
Also homes in the U.S are not wooden homes, they wooden framed.
Then you got Tile, Shingles, and Sheet metal roofs, foundation types include but not limited to- concrete and bricks.
Siding is usually a type of plastic or veneer or faux, or possibly even real brick.
Walls are usually sheetrock, same for ceilings.
Flooring is usually hardwood, but the popular thing in the 90s was carpet.
Brick or concrete itself is NOT more expensive than wood. NEVER was. The LABOR is what is more expensive, because you know it takes longer and more work...........
Wow that was like common sense huh?
When you want to build a new home in a neighborhood that already exists, there is a price point you have to stay at in order to get a good sell for that location, if the homes in the area are selling for 420,000 and you go and build a million dollar home, chances are you won't be getting much return if any trying to sell.
One thing Americans care more for, and I’ve learned to avoid completely in life… that’s VANITY. I’ve learned to use scraps and trash to build up my life while others think new is best. ❤ hope everyone can come to simpler life one day.