Re:Balloon framing is worse-is-better (2021)
by eugenekolo on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @04:27PM
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I'm not sure forests being cut down is the problem these days. Wood is one of the most renewable and sustainable materials out there. Old growth has been cut down, or become out of most people's price range at this point in NA, but farmed fast growing pine is cheap and sustainable. Perhaps NA has more land to support such farms though.
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Re:Balloon framing is worse-is-better (2021)
by wiredfool on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @05:03PM
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It's not in Europe. Wood is expensive here. A 2x4 stick here (Ireland) is ~ 12 eur at the local home center.
And yes, we have tree plantations, but they're mostly sitka spruce, and there aren't _that_ many of them compared to potential demand for wood.