Wage Slave wrote:As for the UK, well, timber frame buildings are almost unheard of and rarely preferred. Bricks, bricks and more bricks.
The more I watch these British retro/reno your home shows, the more I am perplexed about that....it's like 99% bricks. See here, we're going to restore this cotton factory and make it into a home...by tearing down the walls, cleaning off the old mortar, and then rebuilding it. I mean, some of the larger ones, they are adding steel frames and shit inside....but in 2014, it's amazing to me that all the seem to be comfortable building with is bricks?? Do they not get many earthquakes or??