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[SatieSatie]

As a child, I believed the people punching holes in walls on American television must be frighteningly strong. Turned out, they were merely tearing through paper walls...

[dufilmstjedenmist]

German garden sheds are built like American houses. 😂

[winni]

americans be like: why are you using bricks? germans be like: I'm building a house, not a shed

[RigobertSchwesinger]

I live in the center of a German city in a house with 12 apartments. Lately one of my neighbors lit his apartment on fire, it completely burned down and he had to be rescued trough a windows by the fire department. After the fire was under control the house had to be checked by an ingeneer for its stability. The house was safe and only the stairways and one apartment had to be renewed. All other families could enter their apartments 16 hours after the fire started. The house is made of bricks and concrete.

[panzerpoodle]

The difference is, when a storm hits a house in Germany, maybe a little damage on the roof, when a storm hits a house in the USA, no house left 😂

[herrhartmann]

I find it funny that you mentioned the 3 Little Pigs.

'Cause if you remember the story:
The stone house was the one that survived.

[felixmaurer]

14:17 "Hey we got some wood" - Germans: "relax its only temporarily for the concrete pouring"

[A.Lifecraft]

Fun fact: Here in Germany, we don't walk on these concrete floors. We add a layer off acoustic insulation, than add another layer of finer rebar on top of that, along with floor heating usually these days, this is then poured in another 40mm (about 5/3 inch) of concrete, and on top of that we put wooden flooring or something. You would usually have to use heavy machinery or weaponry to go through a ceiling. However older houses often have wooden ceilings. These are made out of wooden beams 8 inches high and 4 inches wide (200mm x 100mm), one beam every half meter (3/2 feet); Flooring is then made out of wood at least 25mm or 1 inch thick, also from the underside it will be clad in wood and then be filled with clay.

[Elfo_]

It's funny to see how Ryan is amazed by the bricks the house is build while that looks totally normal to me, while I'm still the same way amazed when I see how houses in the US are build with these wooden empty walls.

[endorphinchen]

I couldn't imagine living in an American paper house

[thomass]

Funny anecdote... a relative of mine emigrated to Florida. There he built himself a house using German brick construction. All the neighbors laughed at him for going to such lengths. Then Kathrina came along... while he had some damage to his roof (to be fair, over 1/3 of the shingles had to be replaced) and a window was broken, all the houses in the neighborhood were flattened. 🤷‍♂️

[n.sch.]

Ryan zu zusehen ist immer so, als würde man ein Kind dabei beobachten, wie es die Welt entdeckt 😊

[miirami]

Americans living in tornado alley: "Alright lemme just build myself a cardboard box to live in." Germans with a regular family house: "CONCRETE, STEEL AND LASER MEASUREMENT!"

[myeramimclerie]

Your commentary makes me wonder how American houses hold heavy furniture like sofas, pianos and bath tubs without letting them fall through to the first floor 😅

[abriellafiel]

I live in Switzerland in the city of Basel, the oldest house still inhabited today was built in 1269. In the same street there are a dozen more houses that were built before the 1300s, and further up there are a few that were built around the 1400s Most of them are inhabited or used as small shops.

[CLipka]

14:15 - "Hey, we got some wood"
Sorry to disappoint you - that's only temporary, to keep the concrete in shape.

[Daniel-Deveraux]

5:13 that's why we don't get tornados often. They are afraid of our solid houses. 😂

[Katahhor]

We do have houses made from plastic in Europe.... for kids to play 😂

[SotGravarg]

I once actually had a tornado hit my village (in germany) and it went straight past a couple houses about 300ft away from my home and at 5am or so I could feel my bed shake a bit. That was the moment it passed by the other houses and the only damage that was caused was a couple roof tiles missing and one neighbour had a garden shed that was lifted out of his garden and thrown into his neighbours garden xD so literally just relocate the garden shed. But no houses were completly destroyed or even missing. The tornado even passed through a nearby forest and for comparison, it destroyed a lot of trees in the way that were all like an average 40cm (1'4") thick, it ripped clean through them but the houses just stood there like nothing has happened.

[martinabest]

My German cousins have told me that after the WW II the new German government made a law that all new buildings had to be made out of sturdy non-flammable materials, such as concrete or concrete blocks and steel. Wood can be used in the interior but all exterior materials had to be non-flammable. During the war entire cities were destroyed by bombs. The new government believed that if another major war were to ever occur, the destruction would be minimized and any damage would be less costly and easier to repair. If someone insists on building a house out of wood, there is a lot of red-tape and expense involved, and can take years to get the permits and permission to build. When I visited relatives nearly 8 years ago, we watched a new development being constructed. All of the beams were steel. No wood.