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A house should be made of bricks, it saves wood (less deforestation).

A house should be made of bricks, it saves wood (less deforestation).

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I'd like to see how a brick home fares with a 200 mile an hour wind carrying a toyota with it.

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I laughed then came here for the comments

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That's what I'm guessing. They like cold little stone hovels.

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Damn im glad I made my house out of thousands of projectiles that can be thrown by a tornado.

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Why are there 20 new accounts in one day with full names as the username?

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You know (((why))).

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Have to keep an eye on those warrant canaries

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I guess we know these bots sources of user names

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(less deforestation)

Lumber is a renewable resource.... Tree grow back.

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So does brick.. My neighbor placed a decent amount of pallets with bricks in his driveway and i took a few, because what would he need that many bricks for and they looked kind of in the way.. Next day all the bricks was all removed, but the day after, new pallets of bricks had sprouted and i harvested some more..

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Lumber is much more plentiful and cheaper in America than Europe. America is (generally) much warmer as well, and stick-built houses are much easier to cool because they're not relying on bricks which soak up the heat and stay hot. Not a big deal in England, but try that in Texas and you'll see why structural brick is rare in the USA. Tornados are also rare. They get a lot of tv coverage, but not only does brick rarely do anything to withstand them (congratulations, the wall half stayed up, the roof came off, and your house is still a flooded tear-down), it also costs far more for an extremely unlikely event.

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Brick homes are wood homes.

BLOCK homes are not.

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This. Does OP think a brick house is just a single layer of bricks?

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Most people don't know that the bricks are just a facia

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That's not always true. A modern brick home is wood-framed with a brick face, but many older homes in Canadian cities are actually brick and beam construction.

Walls are all double brick with wooden beams for floor joists that insert into the first layer of brick and sit flush to the second layer. The exterior structure is all brick, and brick is literally holding up the floors and roof.

You can't really compare a timber house with a brick facade to an actual brick house. And yes, most people living in brick-face houses don't seem to realize they aren't brick houses. I can't explain that part other than ignorance.

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I did a little research about tornado proofing your house. The key culprit is the garage door. When it fails the over pressure in the house blows the roof off, etc.

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Growing up in the Midwest, we always opened windows to avoid overpressure before heading to the basement. If you get a direct hit, an open window doesn't stop the straight line winds, but pressure balancing will help keep your roof on as it passes nearby. Now, with even tighter houses, the media never mentions overpressure avoidance.

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Well, if the media actually did something useful and gave sound advice it would go against their climate change causing worse storms narrative.

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Well, Peter, a brick home is still made out of lumber, except for the outside covering. Many, if not most, non brick homes are not covered in lumber either. They usually have siding made out of steel, aluminum, or some other non-lumber materiel. A brick home has about as much lumber in its construction as any other type. If you think that a tornado cannot destroy a brick home, you are delusional.

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There is a big difference between a timber-framed home with a brick exterior and an actual brick house. My city is full of 100 year old brick and beam houses that are NOT timber-framed. They are brick and beam, and lumber was only used for floor joists and rafters, which sit directly on brick for all their support.

Not saying it's better for a tornado, just that modern "brick homes" aren't actually brick homes, they're just a selling trick by builders who know their customers aren't very savvy.

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B...but it worked for the three little pigs!

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Do you mean historical brick buildings with walls feet thick of bricks and mortar or modern brick buildings which is just a facade as others have mentioned? Neither stands up well when impacted by the debris of a tornado.

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I saw loads of brick houses destroyed in these hurricanes, fucking retard nigger faggot.

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Cause, money. Homes in the north of Scotland are pretty stout.

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Scotland, where there's never any weather except a light drizzle. A nigger-built mud hut would be stout in those conditions.

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In the far north it's just the opposite - miserable high wind and rain all the time.

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Bricks aren't strong enough, have to use reinforced concrete.

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