/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1559384
>However there's just no perfect method of blending the two.

I think the perfect blend is in any folk-architecture style. Swiss alpine houses, american log houses, croatian coastal stone houses, japan traditional houses...all are perfectly functional, aesthetical and also very durable.

Once people started separating workers from thinkers more than they should, it became a shitshow.

>>1449452
>Classic logical fallacy. Comparing the structures that survived the test of time (vast minority) with the average of today.

I can compare all kinds of comparable structures as can you - recent stone houses to recent brick to recent pinewood and drywalll. Results are the same.

>Also dumbfuck's handmade house ain't gonna last 100 yrs, much less 1000.

a simple wooden loghouse lasts 100 years in Alaska.

>>1449453
>reinforced concrete for your driveway and still have the option for a single surface that doesn't need realignment.

surface cracks. mainintence costs. call McContractors to pour some black crap on in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ1LMmANIAw

>Long lasting stone structures on solid rock is not a demonstration that they have tensile strength.

and why is that important, house is not a skyscraper.

>It's a steep metal roof. It will shed snow faster than your mom will sleep with me. It's also well insulated so any kind of ice dam would be impossible even if it was asphalt shingled roof.

Ha, you absolute moron! That house wouldnt last a year if the weather changes - it would start cracking from enitire lenght of that McPinewall. Imagine walls swelling and that shitty plastic your destroyed and wrapped already cheap wood bursting trough walls (if TERMITES dont attack already).
Pic rel is how civilised people build structures to INTELLIGENTLY deal with the elements instead of overbuilding them with future explosions like absolute 2 IQ digit morons. Murca!