/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1449399
>Stacked stone has garbage tensile strength, it just moves and takes your house with it.

Exibit 1 - stacked pavers outlast McSlab driveways
Exibit 2 - Romans, Greeks, Great China Wall
Exibit 3 - Alpine houses
...

All of those "garbage tensile strenght" building outlasted and continue to outlast postmodern crap.

>because building scientists are smarter than you

So why do "modern" houses have such a short lifespan then? Why are they more expensive at the same time? Smth doesnt add up.

> Every layer of the building is deeply overwrapped to prevent water from entering. Surprise, water has limitations. It can only flow with gravity, capillary action, or condense.

Water turns into ice when cold. How will you counter that? More plastic?

>>1449401
>lmao that deflection on the half-timbers

and?