Well There's Your Problem | Episode 46 : Five-over-Ones
Well There's Your Problem Podcast2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2021–2024
podcast · general · evergreen · 2021–2024 on HN
An episode of the Well There's Your Problem podcast on five-over-one buildings, wood-frame floors atop concrete bases, with engineering background and some oil industry news. It is long, rambling and has NSFW language.
Recommended in housing and architecture threads for its engineers' critique of five-over-one construction.
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3 comments from Hacker News
A podcast, Well There’s Your Problem, run by some engineers and others who rip into them a bit: ▶ this video Some NSFW language I’m sure. Lots of rambling. It’s a journey.
American houses aren't really built from "wood" as in directly from trees - they are build from "engineered wood" like fiberboard and particleboard. That's a lot of industrial processing with a lot of oil-based glues and so on. By weight, the houses are almost more oil than wood. Here's an enlightening chapter of "Well there's your problem" podcast about this with actual civil engineers ▶ this video
Yes, a common construction are these five-over-ones, with a steel-reinforced concrete first floor (for retail) and then wood framed 5-story apartments above. This podcast goes over what an absolute disaster this type of construction is [0], but for apartments in most major US cities west of the Mississippi, it is hard to avoid _some_ sort of wood framing. [0] ▶ this video