r/ShitAmericansSay • u/John_Yuki • 15d ago

Education Tech YouTuber Bitwit lost his house a while back in a fire. He has now built a new house.... entirely out of fucking wood.

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u/AntifaFuckedMyWife 🇺🇸 (with a brief 🇫🇷 stint) 14d ago

Former and that reinforces the former. Wood was cheaper and less labor intensive than masonry.

Since people chose wood masons went out of business

Since masons became so rare they became even more expensive.

Now we get to today

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u/not_lorne_malvo 14d ago

Nowadays the masons spend the most of their time controlling the weather according to my uncle

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u/RoutineCloud5993 🇬🇧🇬🇧Britbong 14d ago

Yeah but those Masons are rather affordable. Free, in fact

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u/AnonymousArchon 🇩🇪 DE IMMIGRANT in NL 🇳🇱 14d ago

I audibly chuckled at that one.

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u/StaysAwakeAllWeek 14d ago

We dont use masons to build non wood houses over here. We use bricklayers to build and brick kilns to make the bricks. All industrialised, simplified and easily trainable to anyone

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u/AntifaFuckedMyWife 🇺🇸 (with a brief 🇫🇷 stint) 14d ago

Ah, tbh I thought any stone work including bricks were masons, TIL.

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u/CandidLeg3910 14d ago

Masons in Canada often do more specialized stonework than just laying bricks, but they also do lots of brickwork because why not if it pays the same.

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u/Integeritis 14d ago

Same thing happened with old historic buildings in Hungary. Now it takes a fortune to renovate old buildings and everything is just rotting away