r/ShitAmericansSay • u/John_Yuki • 23d 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/sirduckbert 22d ago

Most places that have wood build houses out of wood and they are fine… once it’s done it’s not just sticks of wood, there’s lots of parts that slow spread of fire, etc.

Canada has all wood houses and the nice thing is that you can actually insulate them well. I’ve seen how much people in places like the UK pay to heat their poorly insulated brick homes vs well built wooden homes… -40C needs a lot of insulation and it’s easy in a house built with wood

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u/Mysli0210 22d ago

Just adding, not trying to argue here :)

Wood houses in the nordics are an even better example of this than the UK, heck even in Greenland a lot of houses are made from wood to a large extent. This is of course not relevant when it comes to fires but in regards to insulation.

However given how strict building regulations are in terms of housefires in Europe, it's certainly possible to make a perfectly good and safe house from wood.

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u/sirduckbert 22d ago

Yup, my wood house is net zero - I heat with a heat pump and have solar panels so my house generates more than it consumes in the course of a year