• JPAKx4@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I remember hearing that Europe doesn’t use drywall nearly as much. A benefit of drywall is cost and repairability, but is basically glorified paper, yes.

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      1 year ago

      You don’t have to repair it if you can’t break it.

      Try breaking a brick wall with your head or fists, lol.

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        1 year ago

        Try rebuilding a brick wall after a tornado, you’re going to spend so much more money and you won’t have a house for a lot longer

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          That’s the other side of the confusion. You build houses out of sticks and paper, and live in somewhere called Tornado Alley…

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              I think that was an empirical “you”, not you specifically…

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            Yeah, I live in an area prone to tornadoes. Not as tornado prone as the midwest, but we’ve seen tornadoes in this area.

            A particularly notable one touched down in a town not far from here, in the business district. It tore down multiple steel framed cinder block buildings including a Lowe’s Home Improvement Center and a Tractor Supply Company.

            A big bad wolf might not be able to blow a brick house down, but an EF3 tornado certainly can.

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          1 year ago

          I’d like to see a tornado tearing up a brick house as easily as a wood and drywall house.

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      1 year ago

      It also hurts way less if you accidentally hit it as an side benefit. I’m Canadian and we also use drywall for everything.