Re:Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors
by WalterBright on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @06:50PM
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Your cite is about basements, not crawl spaces.
In Arizona, everything was slab-on-grade because the ground was very, very dry. That's not so in most other areas.
The crawl space keeps the wood off the ground where it wicks up moisture and quickly rots. Cement wicks up moisture, too. Try a slab in Seattle, for instance, and your house will soon be uninhabitable from mildew.
Re:Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors
by themaninthedark on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @09:18PM
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Here you go, same info for crawl spaces as well.
> 30 percent of new single-family homes started in 2013 have a full or partial basement, 54 percent are built on slabs, and 15 percent have a crawl space.
https://eyeonhousing.org/2014/10/what-foundations-are-built-...
I think you are looking at a small subset of data.
Re:Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors
by WalterBright on Thursday November 11, 2021 @02:02AM
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So it's still half the homes. How many millions of homes is that?
Since 2000 most homes have been slab construction 60/40 by 2013 78/32.
It is cheaper and quicker to build slab and the way the housing market works means that developers choose what to build.