Correct me if im wrong.
I've seen alot of documentaries on tv over the years and one thing that puzzels me is how alot of americans build their houses, what it looks to me when I see pictures and videos of the ruined houses people live in is that the houses are soooo poorly build that you should think it was build as a part time job of a 10 year old.
The houses seem so extremly fargile, there seems to be litterly no concrete in the building, just wood, maybe the ground has some concrete but I've seen those pictures after a toranto has visited some town and its all just wood, wood and wood ruins.
Why is that? am I missing something? cause it sure seems no better build then the tree houses me and my friends build when we were little kids...
And as GCG says, you need to build proper houses, around here where I live we build our houses from the ground up with concrete, the walls have 10 to 15 inch thick concrete reenforced with steel bars over the entire house. and then there is also like the wood on the outer side making the walls strong as they should. Not a single house has been raised to the ground in the last century as far as I know. granted we don't have torantos here, but we do have storms up here ranging from 40-80 mph in the harsh winters.