You can get quality American home construction... in Florida

[Anonymous No.1676283]

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-8DW3xeWsY
Apparently CMU homes (Croatian brick guy BTFO) are extremely common in Florida, due to the threat of hurricanes.
Too bad these aren't available elsewhere.

[Anonymous No.1676295]

>>1676283
>Too bad these aren't available elsewhere.

the fuck you smoking? you can get this built anywhere. you just have to pay for it and it's usually overkill.

[Anonymous No.1676299]

>>1676283
>Living in hurricane alley flood plane
>building an expensive home in hurricane alley flood plane

ya dun goofed

[Anonymous No.1676300]

>>1676299
>plane
ya done goofed

[Anonymous No.1676308]

>>1676300
Maybe I want the most mobile house in the world.

[Anonymous No.1676310]

>>1676308
You could do it for a lot less with a shopping cart.

[Anonymous No.1676327]

>>1676283
Northern California here. For some reason, a bunch of low-income homes in my area were built like that. There are 4 different small housing tracks and a handful of one-offs in town. Maybe 30 total. All built in the '60s. We aren't in earthquake country so they don't need much reinforcing but it still seemed like a waste of money. We have a huge timber industry out here so wood is dirt cheap and carpenters cost a lot less than masons.

[Anonymous No.1676355]

>>1676327
Seems like a lot of older homes in the desert were made with concrete block too.

[Anonymous No.1676649]

>>1676299
>plane
Crashing this house with no survivors.

[Anonymous No.1676651]

>>1676283
>Living in Florida

[Anonymous No.1678445]

>>1676299
>flood plane
we HALO now

[Anonymous No.1678668]

>>1676355

Old houses everywhere.

>own several older rental houses in Southeast and have lived in such houses throughout my life

You will see a lot of houses from 1920's to 1970's built out of block. It's not as common nowadays but a fourth of my rentals are block houses. Pretty fucking sturdy, even if they're shitboxes

[Anonymous No.1678695]

>>1676327
A lot of low-income houses are concrete block. I live in now defunct coal country and most of the company houses are.

One of the reasons people use wood, aside from cheapness, is it easily allows for remodeling. Knocking down 2-bys is a lot easier than moving block.

[Anonymous No.1678759]

>>1676651
>not being able to afford living in florida

stay poor anon

[Anonymous No.1678761]

I like it

[Anonymous No.1678769]

>>1678759
florida is cheap af anon
the fuck you on about

[Anonymous No.1678774]

Those heat like hell

[Anonymous No.1678782]

>>1678769

no it isnt. try buying a house in any major tourist city. shits fucking ridiculous. only way you can afford to live here is if you buy a house in a low class neighborhood that isnt near disney or any major tourist traps

[Contractor No.1678785]

>>1676283
I've been to Florida (Miami) and seen the "quality" homes are built with with down there using CBs... I'd never want to live in one.
Now try and do a CB house here in the upper midwest where we can get -30 F weather... good luck not freezing to death or have a $2K monthly heating bill.

[Anonymous No.1678786]

>>1678785
You know you can insulate block houses right?

[Anonymous No.1678801]

>>1678786
>>1678785
They're really easy to insulate too.

[Anonymous No.1678875]

>>1678785
>>1678785
CB houses are slow to heat, but they stay warm once they are heated.

[Anonymous No.1678942]

>>1676300
Since they scour the ground flat, it is like a plane.

[Anonymous No.1678943]

>>1678782
Cherry pick harder.

[Anonymous No.1679012]

>>1678782
>in any major tourist city
No shit dumbass.
Why would you even want to anyway?

[Anonymous No.1679148]

>>1678782
>try buying a house in any major tourist city
That describes a whole 10% of Florida's land area.

[Anonymous No.1679182]

>>1678782
Youre a retard. Anywhere in north or central Florida is dirt cheap. Honestly, any hick town that no one cares about. Why the fuck would you want to live in a tourist city anyhow?

[Anonymous No.1679192]

Is the whole state a humid shithole in the summer? or are there certain areas that are tolerable?

[Anonymous No.1681499]

these CB houses are real common up in the panhandle....see them all the time. even the ones on the beach take the hurricanes pretty well..the ones inland last a long time. though most of the ones built in the 50's and 60's have to rely on window units for AC...you always used to see te old school ones with the jalousie windows and decorative block car ports.

[Anonymous No.1681500]

>>1679192
no...it's all a humid shithole for 95% of the year..

[Anonymous No.1681502]

older one with a brick verneer....and jalousie windows

[Anonymous No.1681503]

>>1681502
or an updated on with new windows, etc..

[Anonymous No.1681625]

>>1676283
is that guy peeing?

[Anonymous No.1681662]

>>1681503
How do Americans insert ACs in such sliding windows?

[Anonymous No.1681675]

>>1681662
if that house doesn't have HVAC, then the unit is going to be installed in a different window.

[Anonymous No.1681897]

>>1681662
Portable AC

[Anonymous No.1681899]

>>1676283
Who is this "Croatian brick guy"? In any case, i'm sure you can get any kind of house build anywhere in US. Its just that most Americans expect to pay 7$ for anything done for them unless its a hotrod so they chose to live in pathetic sheet rock sheds. If no one is asking

t. another Croatian who lives in a brick house.

[Anonymous No.1681935]

>>1676283
>Croatian brick guy BTFO
LOL, that thread was like a year ago. Still mad?

[Anonymous No.1681954]

>>1678785
I grew up in miami, and my stepdad was a marine contractor (he built docks basically)
there were certainly stick houses being built at the time, though the first floor was partly concrete. Most houses and even most dock pilings are made from concrete though, people dont want that shit to blow over in a hurricane. Pic related is a house built to withstand the powerful hurricanes and the storm surge that comes with them, these are common in the florida keys and bahamas

[Anonymous No.1681957]

>>1681954
>the powerful
just powerful im tired

this image really shows that this design works well, all the houses standing are stilt houses except the two which are cheap places made of concrete

tl;dr poorfags live in cb homes, yankees like you live in stick houses and fucking die, and rich people in stilt homes

[Anonymous No.1681986]

>>1676283
>>1676327
SoCal resident here. That house wouldn't survive a mag 6 let alone the 7s we have every 20 years or so. (Assuming proximity to the event sufficient enough to be meaningful.) LA only had the equivalent of a long mag 3 when those desert quakes hit in July for example.

[Anonymous No.1682005]

>>1681899
>Who is this "Croatian brick guy"?

Welcome to /diy/: please enjoy your shipping container of imitation crab meat.

[Anonymous No.1682066]

>>1682005

don't forget the 50' hole

[Anonymous No.1682242]

>>1676295
>overkill

[Anonymous No.1682278]

>>1678875
>but they stay warm once they are heated.
>in florida

this is how I know you dont live in florida.

heat was never the problem

[Anonymous No.1682292]

>>1681957
>Some houses completely rekt, others in mint condition
Imagine looking at the face of your neighbor in the morning.

[Anonymous No.1682442]

>>1681502
They are actually awning windows. Jalousie windows are similar but are much smaller and even more prone to breaking. I've only seen jalousie windows on doors here in Florida. I have lived here over 15 years. Those houses most likely have plaster board walls and terrazzo floors. Here's my recently refinished terrazzo floors. It's hard to show the shine but they're smooth as glass.

[Anonymous No.1682571]

>>1681662
They don't, and it'd be trash tier to have one in the front of the house, and asking to be stolen and robbed if it's on the ground floor.

[Anonymous No.1682646]

>>1678875
these things are heat batteries. I've actually measured it with a infrared thermometer and the roof (from the inside of the house, mind you) sometimes stay in the 90-100f till 1-3 AM. depends on the day of course. they usually have no insulation, no gable roofs, no tall roofs with ventilation, etc.. so you're pretty much on an upside down heating pan. shit is disgusting. I get that these things are more expensive to build so you have to cut the costs somehow, but holy fuck there's no excuse to not at least insulate these saunas.

[Anonymous No.1682848]

I just bought a house like this in orange county for 417K

I swear the same house would be 1 million easy back in Boston where i used to live.

1 acre lot with a pond in the back side. The house is 4000 sq ft.

[Humble croatian red aerated te(...) No.1683179]

>>1681899
>t. another Croatian who lives in a brick house.

what is up moj nigga?