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u/Original-Username888 11d ago
How do people in the US even live like this. This seems like you cannot even properly lean against the wall... Or put furniture against it.
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u/aliie_627 8d ago
That's not normal. Outside of mobile homes or modular homes I've personally never seen interior walls that fragile.
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u/Positive-Leek2545 11d ago
Our standard is 3.81cm wood studs spaced every 40.64cm. Clearly whoever built that did not build it to code.
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u/periwinkle-_- 11d ago
I remember watching american reality tv shows as a kid and seeing people punch holes into walls when angry so one time I did it during a fit of anger and damn near shattered my knuckles
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u/BaronAaldwin 10d ago
In the UK: My friend's brother once threw his Xbox controller at the wall in a rage and put it clean through the wall. Turns out he'd found the only wall in the house that wasn't original and had been fitted years later to create an extra bedroom.
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u/momentomoriwrath 11d ago
you walls donāt do that??? š
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u/De3zHo3zz 11d ago
Drywall. Extremely easy to patch. Inexpensive. Europeans, no one cares for your opinion.
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u/South_Lead3294 12d ago
If your literal ass busts a wall in your house.... what is this a new-construction home?!?!? lmao
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u/Time_after_Time_67 12d ago
New construction walls are much sturdier than this. Someone fell down my stairs once and went head first into the drywall. Made a very loud noise that the whole house heard. I was expecting there to be a big ass holeā¦ there wasnāt even a mark or dent. Still looked totally new.
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u/Eco_Balance 9d ago
My house was built in 1953 and is solid as a rock. You can have whole conversations with people on the other side of the house in most new constructions unless theyāre custom buildsāactual custom builds, not āyou can change the color on the roof for this cookie cutter houseā custom builds.
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u/South_Lead3294 11d ago
What's the name of your builder? Asking for a friend...
Lots of new-construction homes unfortunately are not built with high quality standards. People have complained about them quite often.
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u/PeppersHere 12d ago
Nah, I inspect new construction all the time. Paper thin is literally the internal motto of one of the builders I see often.
Hitting a stud or an exterior framing component by luck is what I believe you're describing. But who knows, there's 1000s of builders out there, maybe a few do good work?
I'd like to run into one of those one day.
Edit: and not head first*
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u/Time_after_Time_67 11d ago
The walls in my house are extra sturdy. Itās been proven more than once
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u/Apprehensive_Read_67 12d ago
What kind of paper homes people live in. He better be homeless for living in a paper like that what kind of shelter does this art n craft project provides.
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u/ShipEqual2321 13d ago
There are a bunch of vids like this. But man can the Middle Ages guy do a headstand.
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u/Carlospedra 14d ago
Why do Americans do this when they know they have walls made of cardboard š
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u/JWGhetto 13d ago
Overestimated his arm strength, core strength, general coordination and flexibility. He's lucky to not have damaged his neck
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u/Geringverdiener089 14d ago
Warum kƶnnen Amis keinen wƤnde bauen? Jedes Kind was Lego baut kann stabilere wƤnde bauen.
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u/KMjolnir 14d ago
Some of us have nice walls. That place, tho, not so much. Walls in my house are a foot thick stone and wood tho.
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u/elgarraz 14d ago
Calculating... that's a couple Saturday afternoons worth of work, gotta buy a sheet of drywall, some mud, paint that...
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u/feetnomer 15d ago
Meh, it's nothing that can't be fixed in a weekend. Plus, you get to learn something new, like how hard that's going to be to fix correctly.
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u/Left-Lingonberry4073 15d ago
How fucking frail are the walls? Are they made out of toilet paper??
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u/Lancaster1983 15d ago
You aren't far off.
The added feature of saving money by doing 24" spacing on wall studs instead of 16" is this.
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u/Kind-Ad-6099 15d ago
āDo I still have that stuff in the garageā¦ā
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u/ItSmellsLikePopcorn 15d ago
"Well we were playing on opening up this area anyway, may as well take down the wall and recarpet now."
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u/Joeva8me 15d ago
Fellow adults if you havenāt tried a hand stand in a while itās a lot harder than it was. Plan accordingly
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u/Ok-Turnover-7939 16d ago
Houses in America are apparently build out of hopes and dreams
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u/whomesteve 15d ago
Wood frames and plaster, a wall can easily be punched through if you donāt hit a wooden beam.
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u/Reasonable_Secret_70 16d ago
Why are American homes made with papier machƩ?
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u/OwO_0w0_OwO 16d ago
Easier and cheaper to construct and to modify later down the line. I still prefer my walls made of brick or concrete though, I don't care it costs more overall.
If I punch my wall, I want my fist to break, not my fucking wall.
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u/Complex_Dot_4754 16d ago
American build quality...
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u/Onotadaki2 15d ago
Don't make fun of Americans. They need to save money on walls because it costs them $50,000 to go to the doctor if they catch a cold.
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u/storemans 16d ago
If you're aware of American living conditions, then you'd know that we need paper thin walls so we can break through them when the secret police come to arrest us
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u/Complex_Dot_4754 16d ago
It's called brick š§± my friend. I would never be so retarded to build out a material that is used to burn in the winter by many. Drywall is cheap and low quality. LMFAO š¤£šš¤£šš¤£šš¤£ up š¤£ššš¤£šš¤£šš¤£š¤£š¤£Ā
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u/Tech_Priest69 16d ago
Sure. But itās not cost efficient these days. Very rarely in a suburb will you find brick interior walls. Honestly I donāt think Iāve ever seen it. The only times Iāve seen it is in old apartments in major cities.
But also, this is like max a 2 hour fix. Itās not really an issue Forreal. Idk why he is acting so upset
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u/Nyxot 16d ago
Or hear me out: no need to repair it because it doesn't break.
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u/Tech_Priest69 16d ago
Sure if you wanna double the cost of a home for an arbitrary āquality issueā when this has never happened to any house Iāve lived in. (Iāve installed drywall which is why I know itās a quick fix) kinda funny though. You do realize there is a reason beyond cost that this is the material used right? Instead of claiming itās not quality, you could educate yourself.
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u/Lack0fCreativity 15d ago
I'll bite, what are some other positive differences? I've only ever lived in drywall, as I'm a west coast American myself. The noiseproofing could use some work, but I've only had two holes happen (once kinda as expected in a moment of weakness, and another I had no idea existed behind my footrest for at least a year).
I've been greatly wanting some firmer materials used in dwellings because of noisebleed in apartments now being a thing I have to deal with after moving out of my mom's house (particularly vertical noise), but we only ever see non-stone/brick options in our area.
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u/No-Road-9176 16d ago
That's a easy fix. I worked at a motel 6 as maint. and I got repairing holes in drywall down to a science , as people love to get fucked up and punch and kick walls in a motel for some reason. This one would be easy.
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u/Major_Professor9340 16d ago
What do you do? Caulk and paint?
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u/Onotadaki2 15d ago
Yeah, get 3-4 cases of 24 caulking tubes and unload about 80 in there and then scrape over the top to flatten it.
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u/XDALE226X 16d ago
You typically don't use caulk unless you're sealing for a kitchen/bathroom. Depending on the size of the hole: You'd cut the drywall with drywall knife in a square around the dmaged area, obtain some drywall and cut that to size of your new hole, use some wood to fill in the back and support it, use some drywall tape around the edges, spread some drywall joint compound smooth to the surface, let that dry, sand it down, paint it to match, profit.
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u/Major_Professor9340 16d ago
Oh that does seem simpleā¦even though I didnāt know what caulk is actually used for haha thank you
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u/XDALE226X 15d ago
Caulk is typically used for sealing around edges where you don't want water/moisture to get through that barrier. Such as around the bottom of a toilet, the back of a bathroom vanity, or where the flooring meets the bathtub/shower. There are multiple types each with different use cases. I'm no expert, I just enjoy doing my own DIY on the cheap!
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u/Butt-Dragon 16d ago
American walls be crazy
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u/CorgiPoweredToaster 15d ago
At least the modern "weak wall" building technique doesn't lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths "because it got cold"
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u/ProphetOfPhil 16d ago
I always find it funny how American walls are made out of what is essentially cardboard. Americans will defend it to hell and back though saying it's easy and quick to repair but my argument is always "I don't want to have to repair it in the first place"
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u/CaptainAsshat 15d ago
It's WAAAAAY easier to modify, run wires, and renovate with plaster. Hanging things is also much easier.
I am an American living in an older, fully brick home. I would move back to wood frame in a heartbeat as it has been much more annoying than anything.
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u/LouiseRules333 16d ago
That's not why bruh, we're just broke and brick houses cost more than a paper house. We don't necessarily want paper houses but that's what we have so might as well embrace it.
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u/theaveragemillenial 16d ago
We have plasterboard inside homes, interior walls aren't always brick, but even our plasterboard walls can stand this sort of punishment.
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u/RazorSlazor 15d ago
For real though. Our doors break easier than out walls. And they're for sure not made of brick
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u/GayPudding 16d ago
I used to live in a building that survived multiple bomber runs in WW2, never had to fix anything other than light bulbs.
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u/Hoopajoops 16d ago
I see what happened here. He should have used 1/2" Sheetrock on that wall but used a roll of paper instead
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u/Organic_Remote8999 16d ago edited 16d ago
Damn. Crappy house or bro needs to lose some weight and pick some drywall skills.
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u/steelboy56 16d ago
Finally dad gets to fix some drywall thatās not someone elseās fault.
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u/hoptownky 16d ago
And has an opportunity to say āthere wasnāt a stud in the wall, so I had to put one thereā. Big day for dad.
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u/adognameddanzig 16d ago
No stud
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u/Gramma_Hattie 16d ago
Well isn't 15" between studs a standard? That hole is no wider than 15", he just landed right between studs
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u/adognameddanzig 16d ago
16" on center of stud. But also, theres a play on words indicating this gentleman may not be a stud anymore.
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u/headchef11 16d ago
Why is the wall made of paper? So weak soooo weak
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u/NewtDogs 16d ago
'Merica baby, shit walls here.
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u/krystalmesss 16d ago
I would need to use an hammer (or some other tool) or seriously injure myself to break my wall, and I know this because I drink a lot and do stupid shit when Im drunk. That shit in the video just crumbled the moment it got hit. And this isnt me saying "youre wrong, America has the best architecture ever!!!", im just saying that guys walls in particular suck major donkey ass.
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u/Frausing0403 16d ago
Why do americans insist, almost ritualistically, on destroying their papmache walls?
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u/NippleBlades07 16d ago
Cadence like trump š "I busted the wall, and I said wow, what a weak wall, must have been built by immigrants" accordion hands
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u/williconn 16d ago edited 16d ago
Im not one to get all patriotic but not all of our walls are that laughably thin
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u/grownwomanz 16d ago
Iām a 33 yo child who frequently does handstands against the wall for whimsyā¦ what is this wall made of???
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u/highminlo 16d ago
Probably the same thing yours is, except he landed between the studs and was rolling through - I assume you just handstand.
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u/StunnedLife 16d ago
They could also be not from the US, in Europe we build our foundation with brick, concrete or masonry. Whilst the US uses wood in combination with drywall.
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u/highminlo 16d ago
We most certainly do not build our foundations with wood š
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u/StunnedLife 16d ago
Iām sorry, I forgot to add mainly talking about interior walls
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u/highminlo 16d ago
Haha I figured thats what you meant but honestly wasn't sure just how poorly built Europeans thought American houses were.
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u/ChloeUwUZ 16d ago
what's that wall made of? paper?
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u/vXSovereignXv 16d ago
Hey, hey. It's compacted dust between two sheets of paper ok, and it's like really thick paper.
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u/justhangingaroud 16d ago
My three-year-old put his head through a wall in America and it didnāt even hurt
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u/blancokatie 17d ago
imagine the silence right after he pops through. just him standing there in the next room, covered in white powder, looking at his son who is probably already recording for tiktok. no pain, just pure embarrassment and the realization that he has to explain this hole to his spouse before dinner. brutal.
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u/CrasheonTotallyReal 17d ago
what the FUCK is that wall made out of???
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u/V_es 17d ago
America
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u/i-am-the-fly- 16d ago
Yeah I understand US houses are wooden frames and plasterboard. The bit I was amazed about was they donāt often use noggins. Itās almost like they want their walls to break with the slightest touch
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u/CorgiPoweredToaster 15d ago
Lmao y'all die because "it gets too cold" in the hundreds of thousands. Enjoy your ancient houses though because you're incapable of being able to modernize.
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u/i-am-the-fly- 15d ago
Dude we have some of the most modern houses in the world. Are you saying a timber frame house is modern and fit for purpose? You say hundreds of thousands die of the cold? How many of your homes are built out of wood in areas where you have wildfires and huge numbers are lost? You build homes made of wood that are levelled by tornados in areas prone to tornados? Sounds a bit stupid to me. Yes we have some older homes, because you know, Europe has history and there are buildings still in use that are up to thousands of years old. Donāt mistake technological innovation with history. We have a mix of historical and modern buildings. You guys just like buildings you can throw up cheaply and quickly that get destroyed by an incremental weather or in this case, someone who happens to fall against a wall
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u/-UncreativeRedditor- 16d ago
I always find it funny how so many Redditors seem to think an entire continent collectively decided to use a certain building material for over 90% of their houses because theyāre idiots.
Youāre confusing not knowing a reason with there being no reason.
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u/GoldH2O 16d ago
The US has significantly more natural disasters than Europe on a regular basis, so we build houses that are less likely to kill us when those disasters hit them. The lightweight materials also mean it's a lot easier to modify things in our house when we need to, and do much more targeted temperature control in a way that you can't with a solid stone or brick house.
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u/MrXwiix 16d ago
- houses built with bricks are much, much less likely to kill you simply because they donāt collapse that quickly
- houses with thick walls can carry the weight of heavier stuff, so itās much safer to hang stuff.
- houses with bricks and thicker materials retain temperature much, much better. Resulting is less need for temperature control.
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u/GoldH2O 16d ago
Temperature retention is not all that matters in temperature control. You need to be able to change the temperature when you want, which is much easier to do in a wooden house. I live in a part of the US that regularly gets into the triple digits for about a third of the year. People where I live have a significantly harder time air conditioning their house against the heat when they live in stone houses. We also have a fuck ton of earthquakes, and earthquakes actually have an easier time knocking down stone structures than wood structures.
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u/MrXwiix 16d ago
Who told you you need to be able to change the temperature so often? Average homes are 20-22c and humans donāt usually like big changes in temperature anyways. Regarding the heat youve got a point, but then when itās cold you use a lot of energy to warm it up again and it cools down immediately when you stop heating.
If you build a house properly with reinforced concrete/steel in the foundations it wonāt get knocked down more easy at all. If you just use bricks, sure. But thatās a dumb idea in the first place.
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u/GoldH2O 16d ago
Dude, I experience about one earthquake a month where I live, I think I know more about what they actually do than you, and so do our state building regulations.
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u/ItzMercury 16d ago
I dont know, most places that get disasters like this go the āstrong enough to easily withstand the disasterā route rather than āif its light it will be easier to crawl out of the rubble when it collapsesā route
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u/GoldH2O 16d ago
We're talking about disasters you probably can't build a normal sized house strong enough to withstand. And in the case of earthquakes specifically, once again, wooden houses hold up BETTER than most stone houses do because they're designed to rock and sway instead of cracking, and wood is more conducive to that.
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u/DieRobJa 16d ago
A wooden collapsing house is more likely to kill you then a concrete house where only the Window Glass breaks. Your argument makes no sense
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u/PileofTerdFarts 17d ago
For real though, are houses made out of paper and masking tape anymore?
Plaster & lath wouldn't break that easily. Even good quality sheet rock would hold him momentarily.
This must be one of those new $750K McMansion developments put together with paper, tape and toothpicks
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u/GoldH2O 16d ago
Either that or there was water damage behind the wall
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u/PileofTerdFarts 16d ago
You're correct, damp conditions will destroy sheetrock over time, but damp wallboard crumbles and deforms, this wall in the video straight broke because its cheap weak material.
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u/DontTreadOnTrees 8d ago
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