When I was a kid I was really confused by Jerry. How could he make a home inside a wall like that? The walls are completely solid, with bricks and mortar. I had to move to Canada to understand that the walls are hollow and the house is made from wood, plaster, plastic and styrofoam.
Wall voids are extremely common in older brick buildings. In the case of my house and many others there's an intentional void that is also used as a massive ac duct.
The 100 years old brick buildings don't have any voids. That only started post-WWII when ventilation became a real concern.
But even then those houses are likely to have wooden floors and more modern drywall remodeling in some areas. My house is hurricane-proof but not rat-proof.
My house is brick, built in 1925 and has wall voids, you're simply wrong.
It does have wood floors with 10" wide rough cut planking and has not been remodeled, that's why I bought it.
Just as reference there are ancient Greek buildings with cavity walls, this argument is dumb.
I guess Greek house building was several decades ahead of Belgian house building then, because I've yet to see a pre-war house with cavity walls. I guess the cheap coal heating and lack of a need for cooling must have something to do with it.
Regional variations exist and in some places or fell out of habit completely, just not in the US and honestly most of the Americas.
I was so confused too as a Brit since our houses are made of brick and mortar. I still find it weird that houses in NA are made out of wood and plasterboard/drywall
We have earthquakes here. Plaster and bricks are great for insulating, but they crumble when the ground shakes.
Where did all your pipes and wiring go? What insulates the building?
You don't need any of that nonsense. Real men insulate themselves with their feelings. As for electricity, I make that myself. They don't call me the love dynamo for no reason.
Pipes are installed before the mortar (I think that’s the name), sometimes carving bricks. Wires pass inside flexible tubes (literally translated to conductors). This has the advantage that, if the tube is wide enough, we can pass more wires.
"Conduit" is the word for those tubes for wires. Probably a shared etymology with "conductor" though.
Having the pipes in the mortar/bricks sounds like a maintenance nightmare.
Ah, so it’s the same name in Portuguese. Conduítes.
Yeah... I didn't get homes elsewhere having ventilation until I realized that it's too cold in a lot of places to just open the window (at least I think that's why vents exist, if not, please enlighten me)
A beautiful entrance like that! In this economy?
Of course, the economy, thanks mate!
i have done some renovations and yet to find a tiny living room set with tv in my walls, boomer mice had it easy back then
They dont even put the little mail boxes on the side.
I mean clearly
Obama passed radical leftist neo-marxist regulations designed to constrict the size of mice holes all over not only the United States Of America but also the Not Yet Incorporated States/Colonies Of America's World and strip the freedom that makes this country great slowly from her heart!
I mean come on, what do you think Greta Thunberg has actually been doing all this time?
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Thanks, Obama
You are welcome mom
Changes in construction standards to increase hole ownership has lead mice to cut corners to increase holes and maintain profits from hole renters.
We have to consider the hole lords bottom line.
Jerry is that you
The unions fell apart
Wood products have changed and mice don't like the glue from the pressed baseboards.
The Tom & Jerry accords of 1959. "All door shaped holes will henceforth be circular "
When was the last time you saw a house with wainscoting made of wood...
Every day at home.
That's an interesting word, isn't it? Wainscotting... Wainscotting... Wainscotting... Sounds like a little Dorset village, doesn't it? Wainscotting.
We've been mentioned on telly!
A new breed of supercats figured out how to condense themselves enough so that they could fit in those holes. It was a sad day for mice everywhere.
Wainscoting. Sounds like... a little Dorset village. Wainscoting.
You should check it for killer sheep holes
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