• TronBronson@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    No because I can tell you the difference between a brick and a stone, I’m just asking if I can hit you with a couple pieces of cardboard. Or maybe just interest you in some basic engineering?

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      18 hours ago

      We also use sheet wood in Europe frequently, so we’re very familiar with it. We just don’t use it for our outer walls and load bearing parts of a structure.

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        6 hours ago

        We also don’t use it for load bearing parts of the structure? Thats the wood studs. wood siding helps with lateral forces and makes the load bearing parts rigid. I’ve been seeing the cardboard joke for 30 years now and im stuck in a house with actual cardboard siding, because again sheathing isn’t load bearing. Its crazy that americans built $20,000 mobile homes and housed all the rural poor in them, its crazy they had cardboard walls. but again this was all 30+ years ago, we build things better now, ya’ll can retire the joke, the only people living in cardboard houses are like me, poor and destitute with no other options.