Do Americans really do this?

>using cheap, readily available, environmentally friendly, renewable, earthquake resistant materials

yeah, why?

>plywood boards and strips of plastic are environmentally friendly, renewable, and earthquake-resistant

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Because brick would still get BTFO by a tornado. Wooden houses are cheap and fast to build, and easy to replace when the retards who moved to tornado-prone areas inevitably get their houses knocked over.

much moreso than brick or cinderblock yeah

>earthquake resistant materials
what

>earthquake resistant

Is this what americans actually believe?

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wood flexes, brick or concrete just cracks

...you know that wood will just snap in half and collapse on itself, same as brick, right? You need a special foundation to be earthquake-resistant, regardless of the materials used to build the structure.

im not sure where you are all getting your ideas about wooden structures, but they fare much better than brick or stone in an earthquake

wooden houses are lighter, and conduct less energy from the earth's movements. wood is also flexible and can handle energy transfer much better than more brittle and rigid materials. a wooden house will also not develop destabilizing cracks across its whole structure and collapse.

earthquake prone areas always favor wooden houses.

I've been looking for this one for sooooooo fucking long. Thank you, pekka.

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>earthquake prone areas always favor wooden houses
Yes, for the same reason tornado-prone areas do: so that when their house gets BTFO by force of nature, it's cheap and fast to rebuild.

tornadoes and earthquakes have nothing in common retard

I don't understand why Europeans are so baffled by wood. Maybe it's because they cut down all of their forests.

>tornadoes and earthquakes have nothing in common retard
They both demolish wooden houses, retard.

why are you talking about things you dont understand?

Why are you?

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tornadoes stretch and pull houses until they tear apart, earthquakes vibrate and shock materials until they splinter and crack. Wood isn't as strong as concrete when it comes to being pushed and pulled with extreme force, and concrete cracks when exposed to a strong vibrations unlike wood because concrete doesn't flex.

Wooden houses are cheaper to replace than this.

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Yes, that's the point I'm making.

help i cant stop laughing

remember, this is the superpower we should all strive to emulate

*continental europeans

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levitt_&_Sons

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Just why?
My mom bought her a pre-made wooden house, which looks a lot more sturdy and safer than that.

There is nothing wrong with wooden houses.

Shitty houses will be shitty no matter what they were built out of.

Houses made out of OSB will always be shit and now they're making joists out of OSB.

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>earthquake resistant
It's not even wind resistant

> earthquake resistant materials
A major cause of damage during an earthquake are fires caused by damaged gas pipes.

this has to be fake

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youtube.com/watch?v=qUEXROS83zs#t=27s

It requires even less labour to install so of course Amerifats use it. Imagine a fire in the house. Not only will OSB i-beams burn faster:
youtube.com/watch?v=7osUjtaAlRU
they will fall apart if the fire department shows up and soaks the building with water.

The people in that house likely survived. A brick house would have totally collapsed instead of just partially collapsing.

probably a shed.

They don't use them for floorboards, only ceilings

wtf. That has to be levitt-grade shit.

A decent house built for someone should be using 2x8 s for joists, or even steel skeleton joists.

Also some areas really skimp out on insulation.
Typically OSB is only used for roofing and attached garage external walls where I live, with foam board being used on exterior walls of the part of the home where people live, and siding being placed over that.

What do you gain from lying to Finns?

youtube.com/watch?v=zgBGAH8l5Zo

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theres so many things wrong with this on so many levels, how is this legal anywhere?

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>where I live
Exactly.

>OSB is only used for roofing
And roofs tend to leak. And OSB falls apart in water. This is stupid either way.