/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1449558
>basic leverage + better footing.
Better leverage, it won't tip over, wow. A non-issue for 1 or 2 story buildings unless a tsunami hits it. The footing is equally shit if you don't make it any wider than the walls, your house is still trying to sink. And it's exposed to earth's weight pushing from the sides so it can buckle. Basements are shit. It's much stronger if you fill it in.

>your early presidents
I should've figured you were foreign. Why are you so asspained then? Old masonry houses are common outside America and you can just go buy one, and it literally makes zero difference to you what we build here.

>that house has that "Im a pretencious fag" look
Its not this houses fault you're obsessed with stagnant architecture and afraid of engineering. I mean how many thousands of years ago were people stacking rocks around themselves and happy with it? Probably the only thing more primitive than your arguments.