It's all just beautiful watching these hard working men putting this house together with so much love. Construction workers are among the hardest working people in our society.
I'll wait for the hurricane first, it will do the quality control! Houses like this are carried away like a sheet of paper in a major storm, they're not worth a damn!!!!!
But its true tho that foundation is wayyy too weak it stands no chance, would wipe out like paper, if u gonna spend that much money on a house, make every penny worthy
Yep. It will hurt feelings, but wood frames with plasterboard are not going to hold back a hurricane. Its nice and convenient because it is cheap and looks fine, but if you want to make your house stand a good chance, you need concrete/brick outer walls and much thicker beams in the roof. This roof is going to rip like a can of sardines with a strong gust of wind. Besides that, wood will start rotting over time. Most Europeans stopped building wooden houses quite a while back for a good reason.
I just wondering, why western house (cause i’m living in asia) are not using brick? How long you guys expect for the lifetime of house if only using wood?
"western house"...better to say "american houses". as a European I ask myself the same question, it is certainly a beautiful house to see but from my point of view it is made of paper, without solid foundations or a basement that isolates properly, a roof of sheet metal and tar paper...certainly beautiful but low, very low, standard.
Building materials are largely a function of geography. Wood is readily available in the US (and much of northern Europe @MarchesiEnrico), and is far cheaper and easier/faster to build with than brick. Traditionally, lightweight/wood homes are best in places with small diurnal swings (days and nights don't vary greatly in temperature) and high humidity. A heavy mass structure will hold temperatures, and because the night and day are about the same, you have to heat or cool the actual structure, so your forced to supply more heat, even when its warm and sunny in the winter because the walls are still cold from the night before. In places where night and day are very different temperatures, the structure will help to regulate the temperature between the two extremes, often making it more comfortable inside. Of course this has changed somewhat with modern heating and cooling and insulation, but building practices change slowly. We do use a lot of concrete block, and poured concrete as well... especially in regions where it makes sense, or as part of newer building techniques (insulated concrete forms for example). In the US, we expect a well built wood home to last about 100 years, though if they are not properly maintained they may not last that long. We also have too many VERY poorly built homes that will likely be replaced after significantly less. To make things worse, for the last couple of generations here in the US we are often concerned with the wrong things. We would spend a lot of money to make a much larger home than we needed, rather than spending that money to make a better home that will last longer or be more comfortable. However this trend is slowly starting to change and smaller, well built homes are becoming popular again.
@@MarchesiEnrico A lot of modern building techniques here in the US were first popularized in parts of Europe. Not all of Europe, just like not all of the US builds the same way.
As a ”European”? In Norway, Sweden and Finland I’m guessing 90% of the houses are made of wood. I don’t know any wooden house where it was demolished because of age. Most often is because of design or insulation. The house I live in is from 1963, completely built in wood.
I would never hire these framers to build anything for me, the second he over cut on those stair stringers told me that these guys are not professional, probably use to building cookie cutters in a subdivision
@@itsokay2923 if you’re going to build it, then build it right. Overcuts on stair stringers have been proven time and time again to be the most common problem with stair failure
I watch a lot of construction and ile be doing several big projects in future...and I can absolutely assure you this is a fancy looking cheap bit of rubbish and will have many issues in time and be very inefficient as well.
Can't believe this clown charges $2,000 for a list of material suppliers in texas.. Like dude, you can literally google it... He is for sure a scam artist.. I hope Coffeezila does a piece on him.. I wonder how many he has scammed with his BS..
Ohhh... what is this? A gazebo made from plywood, standing just until the next good wind? It doesn't worth to be called a house. I've built my house in Ukraine with 2 bricks thick walls, now this is a house I can trust.
A single wetting of your insulation will not hurt anything (at least with most insulations). Most construction materials will be fine as long as they are allowed to dry out. The reason you see so many water related issues with homes is because the builder worries so much about keeping the water out that they fail to account for what happens once it does get in. Good modern builders have learned from the past (or their mistakes) and worry more about bulk water intrusion with a continuous WRB (weather resistant barrier) and flashing details, but leave the structure vapor open/permeable, so that any water that gets into the walls can evaporate and dry to the inside or outside of the wall. The days of putting plastic sheeting in our walls is over. The insulation was likely dry by the next day, with zero lasting effect.
@@ge2719 false... Water still evaporates in the cold. Otherwise our roads would be wet most of the year. Even if it's below freezing, water will evaporate.
@@josephhfry it takes far far longer, and only if you get airflow. so if it takes too long and thy have to finish building, and they close in the walls that water isn't going anywhere it will soak into all the material of the wall and cause mold.
@@ge2719 we can go round and round all day on this. Evaporation, even in cold weather, doesn't require airflow, it requires vapor pressure. Airflow will increase vapor pressure, as does low relative humidity and heat. But there is always vapor pressure if you have a wet surface and relatively drier air. This is how plants draw water up from the ground up to their leaves, and how your kitchen sponge dries all the way to the middle. Sure if they seal up the wall wet with a vapor impermeable barrier, then there is a chance that mold could form. But the reality is that it is very rare for mold to form from a single wetting because walls can usually dry to at least one side. I have never heard of mold problems caused by construction moisture (though I am not in the trades). Every time I hear about mold it is due to water leaking or condensing inside the structure.
I'm a big fan. I love your work and videos! A few questions though: 1) I noticed you installed some of the interior and exterior walls' insulation before polishing the floors - why is that? 2) Why did you keep the bathrooms with this ceiling height. Isn't that too much for a bathroom? Was that a design preference or a mistake? ) 3) The master bedroom door that is under the stairs, couldn't you move it a little to the right to avoid that issue you had with the stairs? 4) the arches' crowns are too close to the ceiling, was that also part of the design or you miss that too? Finally, you built a beautiful home! Well done!!!
Its really beautiful built. Respect to the craftsmen but as a German i wouldn´t build walls so wobbly, rather walls made of stone and morter P.S. How about a cellar?
cost of the operation for this house made of paper and glue? certainly very beautiful to see but a house like this made with the standard levels of European construction costs at least a couple of million if not three. Obviously made with a appropriate foundation, at least a semi-basement and a decent roof...
Allegedly the property is worth $2,5 mill. I once asked a American friend about the same, and he said it's the American way in hurricane and tornado areas - build cheap and fast, and when the house is worn out (or blown down) clean the lot and build a new one.
@@johndoesen1718 No way that home is worth $2,500,000... It cost him under $700,000 to build all in.. That is a ~$900,000 House in Texas all day long..
The timelapse would condense months of hard work, planning, and craftsmanship into a fast-paced, exciting video that takes viewers through the key stages of the build.
So the work that the people do is very good and also professional, but if I lived in the USA I wouldn't build a house out of wood because that's the reason why most of them are blown away with the wind 🙂
I see a weak sediment... I think a foundation is better. It is better to dig then hardcore base and raise the walls from below for greater resistance and a strengthened structure.
Can anyone explane the ground work? I dont understand, he removes the top soil (which is good) but then stops, no more digging to find solid rock or change out the earth masses with more stable bedding like rocks. But then goes ahead and actually puts more soil back on top of the excisting earth? I just dont get it, whats the point of that? And the foundation is not anchored into anything, just floating on top of earth, which is unstable and will definently get setteling issues when you build such a large build on it... (even with the compressing that is done) Genuinely courios to why this is the way its done, anyone knows please let me know, as this is definently not the way to do it where im from.
If it was done right, that should be compactable fill and is common in Texas. But considering how much he cheaped out on the rest of this build, it most likely wasn't.. Also he didn't seem to compact it in lifts, which is not how you do it..
no bar chairs to keep the mesh of the ground? and what's the point of having the mesh could safe you another dollar. I suppose no pre pour inspections? So different here in New Zealand. We have council inspection or structural Engineer inspection and Architect inspection for every stage of any building. The main one is the Council to get you the sign off the building cert for you to occupy the building.
Super lujosa pero la chimenea eras mejor en ladrillo 🧱 que sobre salga un poco el techo por lo menos un metro cincuenta centímetros por un metro pero a lo mejor el cliente la pidió así 👍
What’s the address of your home. Would like to physically see it. I am inspired, and about to embark on my own journey here in Dallas. Interested in signing up for course.
One thing I miss in the US, is heated floors. Do you have that somewhere? Here in Norway that is not even considered a luxury. Perhaps in the whole house (newer) but every bathroom has it.
Koreans have been using that floor heating system called ' Ondol ' over 5,000 years Modern water pipe floor heating system is motivated from Ondol Every South Korean houses have under floor heating system include the bathrooms
All this construction and no deep underground nuclear blast/fallout shelter? Or a secure safe room to go to when lunatics show up in the middle of the night to rob you because you got to have money for that kind of house. Personal family protection and security needs to be factored in rather than relying on your alarm system. A lot of awful nasty things can happen in the 5-10 minutes it takes for police to come.
This is a allabout looking expensive while actually being low quality...id never use this company personally...if I was in USA I'd trust perkins builder brothers..there channel shows what a high quality build looks like.
If you know much about construction you will see this build was desighnded to look flashy but relatively cheap material and methods..id rather smaller but high quality as that will last much longer and be cheaper to live in.
Dont listen to that guy, idk if he even knows whats going on. Most likely its because its a garage, and the insulation is only on the exterior wall. With the one wall that has no insulation, its bordering the actual house which also has the insulation around the exterior walls. Now i will say that the other guy is kinda right, even though the missing insulation isnt necessarily bad, typically garages are fully insulated just because of how much they are open. Maybe the builder just knew it was gonna be closed a lot or he just didnt really care and wanted ti save a few hundered.
As a regular old working man I. Have to wonder what job you do to be able to build something like that. All that money didn’t improve your taste however .
No real foundation They made them on a pile of dirt, Walls 6/8 or less thick, no other load-bearing solid blenket I don't understand and I don't need to But the house is beautiful
Ветер дунул, считай нет дома, дождь прошёл... И сгнило всё, фундамент просто на голой земле, и так далее и прочее, они ж богатые лет через 10 ещё построят
