Re:Balloon framing is worse-is-better (2021)
by ajuc on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @01:27AM
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Your average house in an European city is going to stand for 100 years or more.
Re:Balloon framing is worse-is-better (2021)
by arethuza on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @06:00AM
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I once made a friend who is a property developer very happy by pointing out that his new building (built with traditional materials) in Edinburgh's New Town might still be standing in a 1000 years whereas I'm lucky if anything I do lasts 10 years.
Your average house in the city is going to get bulldozed after 30-50yr because in that time things will change enough that someone is going to want to develop the site into something else.
Your average farm house is probably a 200yr structure.