/diy/ - Do It Yourself

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>>1924336
That would take hours to wire and plumb a modern sized house.

>>1707332
Modern houses have 5k feet of network cable and 50+ electrical circuits. Running that shit in the brick wall or through conduit alone is labour intensive enough to make the process economical. Plus the thousands of feet of plumbing.

>>1671145
>Where are you that they need to be on their own circuit?

Most of north america is like that. That way if something on the circuit trips it won't kill the power to the freezer and wreck your food. I'm pretty sure fridges have to be on their own circuit too. This is why 120v and lots of separate circuits if far superior to single phase 240.

>>1664030
It's not viable when you have 200 circuits to run and several thousand feet of network cable. Plus plumbing is also a nightmare.

>>1654500
>american low power means fewer sockets so constant plugging/unplugging instead of just having the right number of sockets required

It's the opposite in Europe... American breaker panels have room for a shit load of circuits. You guys are the ones running ring circuits.

>>1560477
Like such as? You know your computer is made from recycled condoms and glue right? You have no problem throwing that away after a year. Humans are wasteful, deal with it.

Like others have said, you can get 50 years easy out of a sawdust and glue house. It's not worth it when you have to spend 5x as much to build with concrete or brick and wind up gutting and remodeling it after 50 years anyways.

This is a smaller house and look at how many circuits it has. Running those, plus data plus the plumbing and HVAC would cost as much as an entire wooden house.