Price gauging in a pandemic. Dems don't want middle class city dwellers leaving, so nothing will be done.
There is actually a wood shortage thanks to the fake pandemic thet kept loggers from working.
Only for white people. The brown "people" get their houses for FREE!
Brown "people" ARE the problem.
Fake ass president and the scumbags are really making us grow bigger everyday quick. Gas prices and wood!
Spend the extra $ get an ICF home.
Hi.
Do you know much about concrete as a material used to build homes? I wanted to know WHY people use insulated concrete instead of just plain concrete.
Everywhere I look everyone talks about the benefits of the ICF "system" meaning they focus on insulation but no one ever talks about how ICF compares to a home made of just plain concrete.
Do you know enough about the topic? What are the downsides to building a plain concrete home?
I'm by no means an expert, but the thing with concrete is that it's a liquid when you pour it so you you have to build a form for it to hold the shape you want while it cures.
Rather than expensive, metal forms painstakingly arranged and then disassembled, foam is dirt cheap and they're manufactured to fit together modularly like legos. So you essentially build a house out of foam legos and then fill the hollow parts with concrete. There's no need to remove the foam.
I think they just out drywall right over the foam, probably after some moisture proofing layer to prevent condensation.
I spent a few days researching it a few years ago, so that's about all I know and I could even be mistaken lol
Icf makes plumbing and wiring easy as well.foam is not only an insulator but a fire retardant to a degree. There is no need to run conduit or drill holes through studs. Just use a hot knife to cut a channel in the foam, lay in your pipe or wire and sheet it.
Thank you kindly. Watching videos now.
Exactly. I expect houses will get build with better materials now, less house fires etc. No one in europe builds their houses out of sticks.
Are metal-framed houses becoming more popular?
Built and lived in one for over 30 years, great construction material and popular in many countries. Normal builders hate it as you dont get to walk around looking cool with a nail gun on your hip.
Carpenter here, metal simply is more of a pain to work with.
And in 30 years of working on houses, I never wore a nailgun on my belt. I don't even own a toolbelt, because they look faggy. If I'm working on a ladder or scaffolding, tools go in 5-gallon buckets, it works fine.
Depends on your experience, i’m more familiar with metal and it worked out great i hate working with timber. All the young builders around our way wouldnt know how to manually drive a nail, If you cant nail gun it they dont want to know
Impact, grinder, and a chainsaw.
Assembly techniques have improved significantly since i built mine, you need little more than a good screw gun most of the time.
Steel frame Barndominium it is then
Insulated pole barn.
"You will own nothing and be happy" - Some jew scumbag.
In poor countries people just use bricks to build houses and almost no lumber.
It takes longer and costs more, when done right. Plus, the interior walls won't be smooth, that means more materials and labor.
They used to do that where lumber was scarce. Just depends on how hard wood is to come by whether it is cheaper to use brick, but it works well enough. 30k would buy you a lot off interior materials.
Then why is this construction method so popular in Mexico?
Because the bricks are hand-made by children locally, and cost almost nothing. They are slapped together by low IQ peasants with no regard to level or plumb, and interior walls are rarely finished. If, then they are plastered by more low IQ peasants, and the whole thing looks like shit, but in Mexico that is standard.
Soaring prices: Have kept us from fixing the house up. Have inflated the RE markets. Have stalled new house starts.
Its all being engineered. This is $$ for people with the schedule..
A logger in my town told me, they cutdown all the wood and the government stopped them from working due to covid. So all the lumber sat, instead of being processed and milled. Now the only thing its good for is paper, and toilet paper.
Inflation shocker! When to expect your next stimulus check
I paid almost $20 a 2x4 last week, treated wood was cheaper than untreated, the clerk told me the prices were going even higher.
Yeah wood I am just not buying right now. Even though my puppy has decided that she is a beaver and my deck is a forest.
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