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The perfect dish (sub.wetshaving.social)
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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (10 children)

What makes wood unfit for structure? I don't know much about buildings, but it looks pretty strong and flexible to me?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Nothing.

    This person is kinda saying nonsense.

    Wood is perfectly sound for structural building.

    There are wooden temples in Japan dating back to the 6th(7th?) century.

    A stone structure would have been shook apart by now.

    Different materials have different use cases.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    To clarify for people who don't know: japan has a shit ton of earthquakes.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They use the metric system so I believe it’s a shit tonne

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Right but for earthquakes the global standard is imperial. Nobody uses metric, except the french during the paris commune, the kingdom of hawaii, and mongolia.

    Maaaaaybe north korea and cuba, but definitely not vietnam; it was a whole thing in the 80s.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    it looks pretty strong and flexible

    Compared to steel? I would recommend you check your eyesight.

    It's also labor intensive, and has plenty of durability problems. Also, worst of all, there is a huge amount of problems that can weaken it but are completely invisible once you finish your walls. Problems that happen often, because of that labor intensity.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Well i mean we're talking houses here, not record-breaking high-rise buildings.

    As for issues with structural wood... Tbh they're pretty rare. Probably more common than, say, the steel in your walls rusting or something, but still, not to a worrisome degree.

    The main one is insects. Water (leading to mould) is also a thing but water infiltrations are terrible news no matter the material so...

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