>the gaps
Use a pair of scribe-compasses to trace the shape of the log below onto the log above and hew it to a more fitting shape.
Place dry moss between the logs before dropping it in place for a tight seal.
Correct, Usće Tower didn't give a frick about bombs. Took all of 6 months to fix and renovate it.
So you're not gonna mention western europe? It's okay though, I get why people with nationalist parents and grandparents would live in the illusion their region is superior lol rofl
>So you're not gonna mention western europe?
Because they're worse.
>6.2 earthquake in USA. Oh did you guys feel that 'quake last night? No, what 'quake? >6.2 earthquake in Balkans, cities lie in ruins.
You're thinking of west yurop. I would honestly rather live in a stick framed house than a western eurogay brick only house. They don't get earthquakes, often they use no reinforced concrete at all. >6.2
Most balkan houses could take a 7. >Oh did you guys feel that 'quake last night? No, what 'quake?
You would most certainly feel your house oscillate like a motherfricker, but you would survive, a G*rman would be crushed by tons of bricks, a Balkanchad would merely see some potted plants wobble.
most of the mid-range houses (120-150k yuros) are built like that
also very common for this type of house: 10cm polystyrene slabs on the exterior, floor heating, and metal roof
since we're here: would you choose AAC instead of bricks for the exterior walls? it has better thermal insulation, it's lighter and probably cheaper, but are there any disadvantages?
>also very common for this type of house: 10cm polystyrene slabs on the exterior
The one in the video has rock wool instead. >floor heating
Nice, I am stuck with radiators but my shit is from 1976, at least I have new 3 layer windows and polystyrene insulation. >and metal roof
Trash, tile lasts forever. >since we're here: would you choose AAC instead of bricks for the exterior walls? it has better thermal insulation, it's lighter
Hell yeah. Lived in a building from 1991 that only had AAC block, crappy Yugoslav collapse AAC block that is, the only brick in that building was the facade. Didn't need to run the AC in the summer ever. >and probably cheaper, but are there any disadvantages?
No way in hell it's cheaper than standard shit brick. Biggest disadvantage I can think of is water resistance or it's lack thereof.
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>Trash, tile lasts forever.
Tile is a fricking wasp magnet. Asphalt shingle or metal roof, rest is just pain in the ass
7 months ago
Anonymous
>Tile is a fricking wasp magnet.
*rolls down screen*
NOT MY PROBLEM >Asphalt shingle or metal roof
Actual shit
7 months ago
Anonymous
It is a giant ass problem. Frick wasps. They deserve no place to live.
I saw them make nest under the gutter, i knocked it off on the ground, burnt with gasoline, and sprayed gutter with silicone oil, so their shit doesn't stick to it.
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I lied, the building actually had a layer of styrofoam insulation over everything. Really did not expect that for 1991. Still crap AAC block made in a dying country with the sand content being too high. Horizontal sound insulation was amazing I guess it was a solid concrete wall there, but vertically it didn't exist, probably because the holes for the radiator pipes were 35 and ready to settle down, once one guy who lived above dropped a qtip on the floor which fell through said hole and stayed hanging from our ceiling.
So you're not gonna mention western europe? It's okay though, I get why people with nationalist parents and grandparents would live in the illusion their region is superior lol rofl
Now I understand why overpenetration is such a hot topic when Americans are discussing home defense. My concrete walls could probably withstand 12ga slugs no problem.
Your gotcha is that German brick buildings got destroyed in a war? They were not reinforced concrete.
Before we start some autistic argument, in reality artillery CAN destroy reinforced concrete (but not easily), it was an obvious hyperbole. But they are really strong, they can even fall over (due to ground erosion) and still retain structural integrity.
Sorry dude, you're an imbecile. There isn't a single structural engineer who is going to wave off an artillery strike and say "it's fine". Reinforced concrete isn't used much in the USA because pine is abundant, and we're not going to get blasted.
However, the home inspection process alone is a pain in the ass, especially in cities and states which are more prone to natural disasters. Seattle, is, I believe prone to every single type of natural disaster in the world. I would much rather be in an inspected stick house, than a concrete box that's "reinforced".
Raised foundations on moors that Vlad didn't let fully cure kill hundreds if not thousands of people every year (I base this on nothing)
I don't care, screw the both of you
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Anonymous
>I would much rather be in an inspected stick house, than a concrete box that's "reinforced".
Would you live in a cardboard box if a certified, accreddited, qualified professional expert inspector says that it will protect you?
6 months ago
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>I would much rather be in an inspected stick house, than a concrete box
I'll take my concrete box in my country that gets a somewhat noticeable earthquake every... 30 years or so. >that's "reinforced".
Rebar motherfricker ever heard of it?
>they can even fall over (due to ground erosion) and still retain structural integrity
As evidenced in pic related. The old house (evidenced by the solid brick no one uses anymore) probably also lacked reinforcements and half of it disintegrated. Only half. The small house with a shitty foundation tipped over but stayed intact. Everything else, probably still standing.
Sorry dude, you're an imbecile. There isn't a single structural engineer who is going to wave off an artillery strike and say "it's fine". Reinforced concrete isn't used much in the USA because pine is abundant, and we're not going to get blasted.
However, the home inspection process alone is a pain in the ass, especially in cities and states which are more prone to natural disasters. Seattle, is, I believe prone to every single type of natural disaster in the world. I would much rather be in an inspected stick house, than a concrete box that's "reinforced".
Raised foundations on moors that Vlad didn't let fully cure kill hundreds if not thousands of people every year (I base this on nothing)
>Balkans you run out of money and just leave brick exposed for next 25 years. >USA building material literary grow on trees
Now I understand why overpenetration is such a hot topic when Americans are discussing home defense. My concrete walls could probably withstand 12ga slugs no problem.
Anon 12ga slugs are slow and heavy. Don't penetrate much so I'm sure your walls would do OK. Besides I've seen plenty of Euro walls shot by rifle calibers and just getting surface damage.
It's an issue if you live in an apartment complex with NBA Americans, as that increases your chance of a shootout by a factor of 30. Either them at each other or with cops.
you run out of money and just leave brick exposed for next 25 years.
Styrofoam block, anchors, cement based glue, glass fiber mesh and acrylic decorative stucco are absurdly cheap. Every time all that's missing there's a 20 year old Audi or BMW parked in front. >>USA building material literary grow on trees
curious, are those big red clay block/brick filled with concrete and rebar? or are they just stacked with mortar? I think i've seen a cutaway and they're hollow with lots of vertical cavities like a CMU, right?
>curious, are those big red clay block/brick filled with concrete and rebar?
No, the pillars are where all the rebar is. >or are they just stacked with mortar?
Exactly. >I think i've seen a cutaway and they're hollow with lots of vertical cavities like a CMU, right?
Yes, and they're typically fricking garbage that breaks easily, but they have no real structural purpose in a house, maybe you can build a little shed out of them at best, I would never live in anything made out of only those bricks.
I know you're going to laugh and call me moronic because Lego bricks are tiny and a great big thin wall of them would be brittle and collapse easily, but imagine gigantic Lego bricks that were several feet wide (walls that are at least three feet thick). A house made out of such bricks would be STURDY and last a thousand years.
>1.) Watch youtube videos of VHS rips where that one old guy with glasses frames a house on a foundation wall >2.) Download whatever residential building code you have to follow >3.) Model your structure in freeCAD or google sketchup with different layers for foundation, framing, cladding, etc.
Then when you go to build get at least two buddies who can help you because it's actually hard work. Especially cladding. Especially hanging drywall.
t. built a shed once
Modern houses are too difficult i advise you to ignore the utilities and just build a shell of a house and later worry about running wires and pipes to a few locations. Dont embed anything in walls or floors, too hard to repair and to build.
Just build a steel frame like pic related, you can just buy steel beams and that steel deck sheet metal you can walk on and some of that wavy steel sheet metal for the walls. Weld everything and then paint it in golden gate paint and you got yourself a hollow metal cube metal cube, its allright.
I've been trying to find somebody who will build a small stone cabin/hermitage for me on some land I own, but nobody wants to build something that only needs to fit one person. They always say "well, go talk to the wife about the need for more space" or someshit. I don't need a fricking 1500 square foot monster.
The land is in the swamp. There ain't no quarries or stone for 100 miles, at the very least. I suppose I could, but I need somebody to frick with the foundation so I don't wake up underneath a collapsed house and in front of Christ laughing at me.
i did that last year could only finish a few feet of wall in three months and i didn't have water at the location so i had to haul a 10 L bucket full of mortar soaked with water up the mountain
i want to find a piece of land with a a huge rock outcropping i can cut into stone in place to build everything with, so it all looks natural and consistent. Western MD has some really pretty red stone.
that doesnt look like it's up to CODE
you know why we have a CODE right?
what? in your grandparents lifetime there was no CODE?
your great-grandparents grew up in LOG CABINs that weren't built to CODE by CERTIFIED ACCREDITED EXPERT PROFESSIONALS?
and they didn't have EPA-certified, inspected and permitted sewage treatment/disposal systems?
and they didn't have grid power? or municipal water? or an approved water disposal system? and they COLLECTED RAINWATER?
and they SOMEHOW managed not to die or kill anyone through a comically absurd rube goldberg chain of extraordinarily unlikely events?
well that doesn't matter, because... it just doesn't, okay?
the experts have determined that there is only 1 way to do anything, period - who are you to question the EXPERTS?
typical ignorant SCIENCE DENIER
i think you need to calm down and get your latest COVID booster and a nice bug smoothie, maybe get your bussy blown out by an HIV-positive immigrant and join the Biden reelection campaign, and then cut a fat check to Israel
lmao they didn't collect rainwater they dug wells. Also we actually do need regulations because there weren't as many people long ago and if you have regulations it starts eventually to look like picrel
4 walls, a roof on top. Holes for CO to escape, windows, and a door.
Why is your house full of carbon monoxide?
I like fire too much.
Wooden doors prevent gas escaping.
no planning for sewage / electricity / water pipes?
Carefully
>you know i think you could build it out of straw and it would be 100% safe and effective.
t. first little pig
Modern homes are built with Mexican day laborers
With shipping containers.
You get the first angle right and the rest of them have to be
Not like that, jesus, that barely qualifies as "walls."
What makes you say that? They're very sturdy and the gaps are typically filled in
>the gaps
Use a pair of scribe-compasses to trace the shape of the log below onto the log above and hew it to a more fitting shape.
Place dry moss between the logs before dropping it in place for a tight seal.
sounds like an absolute pain in the ass
I want to find a property with a big ol' rock cliff and blast a home into it. Just become caveman.
Left. But right is okay if done right.
Left is only done so that they can better withstand and repair the next bombing campaign.
Correct, Usće Tower didn't give a frick about bombs. Took all of 6 months to fix and renovate it.
>So you're not gonna mention western europe?
Because they're worse.
You're thinking of west yurop. I would honestly rather live in a stick framed house than a western eurogay brick only house. They don't get earthquakes, often they use no reinforced concrete at all.
>6.2
Most balkan houses could take a 7.
>Oh did you guys feel that 'quake last night? No, what 'quake?
You would most certainly feel your house oscillate like a motherfricker, but you would survive, a G*rman would be crushed by tons of bricks, a Balkanchad would merely see some potted plants wobble.
Here's a house being built in Romania https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgxabQujgNA
most of the mid-range houses (120-150k yuros) are built like that
also very common for this type of house: 10cm polystyrene slabs on the exterior, floor heating, and metal roof
since we're here: would you choose AAC instead of bricks for the exterior walls? it has better thermal insulation, it's lighter and probably cheaper, but are there any disadvantages?
>also very common for this type of house: 10cm polystyrene slabs on the exterior
The one in the video has rock wool instead.
>floor heating
Nice, I am stuck with radiators but my shit is from 1976, at least I have new 3 layer windows and polystyrene insulation.
>and metal roof
Trash, tile lasts forever.
>since we're here: would you choose AAC instead of bricks for the exterior walls? it has better thermal insulation, it's lighter
Hell yeah. Lived in a building from 1991 that only had AAC block, crappy Yugoslav collapse AAC block that is, the only brick in that building was the facade. Didn't need to run the AC in the summer ever.
>and probably cheaper, but are there any disadvantages?
No way in hell it's cheaper than standard shit brick. Biggest disadvantage I can think of is water resistance or it's lack thereof.
>Trash, tile lasts forever.
Tile is a fricking wasp magnet. Asphalt shingle or metal roof, rest is just pain in the ass
>Tile is a fricking wasp magnet.
*rolls down screen*
NOT MY PROBLEM
>Asphalt shingle or metal roof
Actual shit
It is a giant ass problem. Frick wasps. They deserve no place to live.
I saw them make nest under the gutter, i knocked it off on the ground, burnt with gasoline, and sprayed gutter with silicone oil, so their shit doesn't stick to it.
I lied, the building actually had a layer of styrofoam insulation over everything. Really did not expect that for 1991. Still crap AAC block made in a dying country with the sand content being too high. Horizontal sound insulation was amazing I guess it was a solid concrete wall there, but vertically it didn't exist, probably because the holes for the radiator pipes were 35 and ready to settle down, once one guy who lived above dropped a qtip on the floor which fell through said hole and stayed hanging from our ceiling.
So you're not gonna mention western europe? It's okay though, I get why people with nationalist parents and grandparents would live in the illusion their region is superior lol rofl
Now I understand why overpenetration is such a hot topic when Americans are discussing home defense. My concrete walls could probably withstand 12ga slugs no problem.
Post guns
No, they're talking about the women.
You misheard "loose floors".
>6.2 earthquake in USA. Oh did you guys feel that 'quake last night? No, what 'quake?
>6.2 earthquake in Balkans, cities lie in ruins.
reinforced concrete doesn't care about earthquakes
it doesn't even care about artillery fire or explosions
sorry to burst your bubble
What do you think are all those 'city parks' all over Berlin?
Your gotcha is that German brick buildings got destroyed in a war? They were not reinforced concrete.
Before we start some autistic argument, in reality artillery CAN destroy reinforced concrete (but not easily), it was an obvious hyperbole. But they are really strong, they can even fall over (due to ground erosion) and still retain structural integrity.
Sorry dude, you're an imbecile. There isn't a single structural engineer who is going to wave off an artillery strike and say "it's fine". Reinforced concrete isn't used much in the USA because pine is abundant, and we're not going to get blasted.
However, the home inspection process alone is a pain in the ass, especially in cities and states which are more prone to natural disasters. Seattle, is, I believe prone to every single type of natural disaster in the world. I would much rather be in an inspected stick house, than a concrete box that's "reinforced".
Raised foundations on moors that Vlad didn't let fully cure kill hundreds if not thousands of people every year (I base this on nothing)
I don't care, screw the both of you
>I would much rather be in an inspected stick house, than a concrete box that's "reinforced".
Would you live in a cardboard box if a certified, accreddited, qualified professional expert inspector says that it will protect you?
>I would much rather be in an inspected stick house, than a concrete box
I'll take my concrete box in my country that gets a somewhat noticeable earthquake every... 30 years or so.
>that's "reinforced".
Rebar motherfricker ever heard of it?
>they can even fall over (due to ground erosion) and still retain structural integrity
As evidenced in pic related. The old house (evidenced by the solid brick no one uses anymore) probably also lacked reinforcements and half of it disintegrated. Only half. The small house with a shitty foundation tipped over but stayed intact. Everything else, probably still standing.
>muh foundations
Nice, I forgot the pic, I'm moronic.
my city may be ugly but it withstands 8 degree earthquakes and 90% of it's made of brick and concrete
>Balkans you run out of money and just leave brick exposed for next 25 years.
>USA building material literary grow on trees
Anon 12ga slugs are slow and heavy. Don't penetrate much so I'm sure your walls would do OK. Besides I've seen plenty of Euro walls shot by rifle calibers and just getting surface damage.
It's an issue if you live in an apartment complex with NBA Americans, as that increases your chance of a shootout by a factor of 30. Either them at each other or with cops.
you run out of money and just leave brick exposed for next 25 years.
Styrofoam block, anchors, cement based glue, glass fiber mesh and acrylic decorative stucco are absurdly cheap. Every time all that's missing there's a 20 year old Audi or BMW parked in front.
>>USA building material literary grow on trees
>france
what the actual frick am I looking at here
the 3 little pigs
curious, are those big red clay block/brick filled with concrete and rebar? or are they just stacked with mortar? I think i've seen a cutaway and they're hollow with lots of vertical cavities like a CMU, right?
>curious, are those big red clay block/brick filled with concrete and rebar?
No, the pillars are where all the rebar is.
>or are they just stacked with mortar?
Exactly.
>I think i've seen a cutaway and they're hollow with lots of vertical cavities like a CMU, right?
Yes, and they're typically fricking garbage that breaks easily, but they have no real structural purpose in a house, maybe you can build a little shed out of them at best, I would never live in anything made out of only those bricks.
You know the Japanese tear down their homes and build them back up every 30 years?
In what part of the world, with what budget, and on what landscape?
I believe USA has some guidelines and moron proof instructions in an ACI manual.
Watch Alone in the Wilderness
fake and gay reality tv bs
I know you're going to laugh and call me moronic because Lego bricks are tiny and a great big thin wall of them would be brittle and collapse easily, but imagine gigantic Lego bricks that were several feet wide (walls that are at least three feet thick). A house made out of such bricks would be STURDY and last a thousand years.
Look up Nudra foam block
Step 1 seems to be: Don't be american
>1.) Watch youtube videos of VHS rips where that one old guy with glasses frames a house on a foundation wall
>2.) Download whatever residential building code you have to follow
>3.) Model your structure in freeCAD or google sketchup with different layers for foundation, framing, cladding, etc.
Then when you go to build get at least two buddies who can help you because it's actually hard work. Especially cladding. Especially hanging drywall.
t. built a shed once
Modern houses are too difficult i advise you to ignore the utilities and just build a shell of a house and later worry about running wires and pipes to a few locations. Dont embed anything in walls or floors, too hard to repair and to build.
Just build a steel frame like pic related, you can just buy steel beams and that steel deck sheet metal you can walk on and some of that wavy steel sheet metal for the walls. Weld everything and then paint it in golden gate paint and you got yourself a hollow metal cube metal cube, its allright.
Open up Minecraft and place a few blocks down
I've been trying to find somebody who will build a small stone cabin/hermitage for me on some land I own, but nobody wants to build something that only needs to fit one person. They always say "well, go talk to the wife about the need for more space" or someshit. I don't need a fricking 1500 square foot monster.
dude this is PrepHole just buy some rocks, a chisel, a hammer, and the shit to make mortar and go for it
The land is in the swamp. There ain't no quarries or stone for 100 miles, at the very least. I suppose I could, but I need somebody to frick with the foundation so I don't wake up underneath a collapsed house and in front of Christ laughing at me.
i did that last year could only finish a few feet of wall in three months and i didn't have water at the location so i had to haul a 10 L bucket full of mortar soaked with water up the mountain
i want to find a piece of land with a a huge rock outcropping i can cut into stone in place to build everything with, so it all looks natural and consistent. Western MD has some really pretty red stone.
that doesnt look like it's up to CODE
you know why we have a CODE right?
what? in your grandparents lifetime there was no CODE?
your great-grandparents grew up in LOG CABINs that weren't built to CODE by CERTIFIED ACCREDITED EXPERT PROFESSIONALS?
and they didn't have EPA-certified, inspected and permitted sewage treatment/disposal systems?
and they didn't have grid power? or municipal water? or an approved water disposal system? and they COLLECTED RAINWATER?
and they SOMEHOW managed not to die or kill anyone through a comically absurd rube goldberg chain of extraordinarily unlikely events?
well that doesn't matter, because... it just doesn't, okay?
the experts have determined that there is only 1 way to do anything, period - who are you to question the EXPERTS?
typical ignorant SCIENCE DENIER
i think you need to calm down and get your latest COVID booster and a nice bug smoothie, maybe get your bussy blown out by an HIV-positive immigrant and join the Biden reelection campaign, and then cut a fat check to Israel
lmao they didn't collect rainwater they dug wells. Also we actually do need regulations because there weren't as many people long ago and if you have regulations it starts eventually to look like picrel
Bros while we are on this subject, has anyone here tried building a super adobe house or a paper roll house(shigeru ban)?
https://buildingscience.com/documents/insights/bsi-001-the-perfect-wall
This filters the moron.
With lots of money