Just about when the final payment for the mortgage ,roughly 25 years it will be time to knock this house down (garden shed ) and rebuild a new house.......must be the biggest con going
Let's see how mortgageable they are after the structural timber frame warranty runs out. I bet buyers will be forced to take out expensive insurances against structural failure. You think these things are build to last for 100+ years!?
30 years, I expect, if the owner performs excessive corrections (beyond maintance). Just like most USA houses that get knocked down in that time frame for the latest garbage they replace it with.
Going off at a tangent. All that equipment and vehicles are all powered by DIESEL. And always will be. To think that that could ever be made "battery electric" is a complete fantasy.
To go off at a tangent ... Heavy equipment like that will nevva evva evva be battery electric. The idea is completely absurd. For several different reasons.
As a side issue, many years later ... NONE of that heavy equipment would ever evva evva be battery electric. The idea is completely absurd. For several reasons.
Still some similarities to the Barrett house my parents bought in the early 90's, trenched footings, build up the wall, except back then they poured a solid concrete floor in the void and now its a suspended concrete floor. Pre building the roof on the slab is different, and there was never any timber framed elements back then. Last few years I've watched an Avant estate getting built and the entire estate is built on concrete pilings and precast concrete beams, which then get the brickwork on top. No traditional concrete footers at all and the whole estate had the pilings drilled before any of the roads were laid out. Took the drilling rig around 8 weeks to do 300 ish houses.
Trying to get information for black down my dad was a wotwo warrant. Officer lived there late fities to nineteen sixty lived on Malta road black down army camp just a long shot
I enjoyed the video. It's a shame that I will know where it is. Monmouthshire Wales is the best I can find. I would have thought a bit of information to give its location would have helped. Or am I the only person that goes onto Google Street View to look at such things, and the before and after?
But but,its the same like the one they replaced.Why not make it a little wider so there is room for another pair off rails?Not good of those little orange puppies...
No I was wrong they replaced it with a cheap concrete bridge that will only last 50 years as opposed to the previous bridge which probably lasted around 200 years.
I have not seen the end of this video yet, but I’m guessing that these guys are going to do a really good job building a brand-new bridge, making it look like for like with the old bridge and keeping it in keeping with the beautiful country surroundings that will allow it to blend in to the beautiful countryside.
Ugly and cramped houses built with the cheapest possible materials designed to last not much longer than the average mortgage (25 years). This whole site will no doubt be flattened and rebuilt again at least once before this century is out.
Fully agree. I think that's the model now so wealth can't be passed on. Every 50ish years these timber frame sheds will be torn down and a new lot built with new mortgages/sales on them. Current owners will get some sort of 'land value only' pay off.
I am genuinely perplexed as to how the inside of the houses get built first, then the bricks get laid outside. They do look like very thermally efficient homes though. Where can you go to learn more about modern vs traditional homebuilding?
Thanks guys. On first viewing I didn't see that the wall separated two transformers. I believe the walls are called isolation walls or blast barriers and serve at least 3 roles: projectile resistance, resonant noise reduction & fire containment.
Maybe its just the way the timelapse worked out, but it didnt seem the high-reach was used much. Also interesting the building came down relatively quickly but then it took far more time to process.
