{"id":47226,"date":"2020-08-25T09:27:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T13:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47226"},"modified":"2020-08-25T09:27:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T13:27:34","slug":"why-are-homes-made-out-of-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47226","title":{"rendered":"Why are homes made out of wood?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Seriously, honest question.\u00a0 Why are <\/em>homes made out of wood?\u00a0 A flimsy, degradable material that is so susceptible to the elements, that has pretty definitive expiration conditions.\u00a0 Especially when there\u2019s a world of materials out there that aren\u2019t nearly as vulnerable?<\/span><\/p>\n

Naturally, with a query like that, it stands to believe that I\u2019ve gone through some sort of negative experience, to which is affirmative.\u00a0 We\u2019ve had some gnarly rain, and at one point, hail, and then suddenly, there are two places in my house that started leaking.\u00a0 A skylight in the sunroom breached at first, leading me to put down some buckets to catch water, and what started as one corner that was leaking eventually turned into three corners, leading to my disgust and aggravation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Naturally, at the time in which all this occurred, there\u2019s little sense in trying to call anyone since it\u2019s not really an emergency, so I went on with my day, just very annoyed.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then I heard the dripping; at first, I thought I left my kitchen faucet slightly on, but it turned out that the light fixture above my sink was dripping water.\u00a0 Worse off, there was a bunch of dripping along the window frame in front of the sink, and thinking quickly, I put a bunch of little Tupperware containers to catch the water, since they fit on the sill, but it was unmistakable, that there was a second breach in my house.<\/span><\/p>\n

Long story short, I tracked it down to some angled windows in my master bathroom on the second floor, where moisture was seeping in through either aged seals or rotting wood, and trickling down behind the walls and into my kitchen.\u00a0 Also seeping through some cracks in the tile in the master bathroom itself too.\u00a0 But it was clear to where it was coming from.<\/span><\/p>\n

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So as the skylight was a definitive roofing issue, it wasn\u2019t difficult to get a roof guy out to my house and take a look at the problem.\u00a0 Predictably, it was a case of where the seals around the window had eroded, and basically I paid $430 for them to basically re-seal the seams with probably $10 worth of silicone caulk. But whatever, that issue was taken care of, and that\u2019s what grown-ups do, throw money at their problems.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now the angled windows, that\u2019s a different story, since they\u2019re windows, and they\u2019re basically 30 feet off the ground.\u00a0 It\u2019s not something I can do, and frankly I\u2019d rather hire someone to take care of it.\u00a0 I was hoping that it would be an instance of just some more silicone caulk, resealing the seams of the window to prevent future moisture from getting in, but that would be too easy, wouldn\u2019t it?<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, it turns out that a lot of the wood framing the edges of the window have basically completely rotted at this point, and when the rain and hail came sideways, it\u2019s the perfect entrance into the inner parts of my house, and obviously something a few stripes of caulk were not going to fix.\u00a0 Even the ladder touching the frame caused some of it to crumble away, like a trap block from Castlevania<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This too will be something that I will be an adult about and throw money at to get fixed, but that brings us back to the original question at hand: why the fuck are so many homes made out of wood?<\/span><\/p>\n

Obviously, there\u2019s the very apparent economical aspect, as wood is very affordable, as well as pliable and flexible, but damn does it suck that homes are built with materials that are known to have a finite shelf life and will undoubtedly be affected by inevitable moisture.\u00a0 Knowing the age of my home when I bought it, I always had in the back of my mind, concern for whenever there was too much rain going on, and now that I\u2019ve actually experienced breaches into my home, things are never going to be the same ever again, short of me coming into a boatload of money and having everything inspected and fixed appropriately, and not by the corner-cutting Korean contractors that the previous owners of my home obviously went with, because that\u2019s what all Koreans the generation ahead of me did.<\/span><\/p>\n

But like, if I could Sim House the construction of my house, and money weren\u2019t an object, I\u2019d definitely build my home out of materials that weren\u2019t wood, or at least limit the wood to areas of the home that weren\u2019t quite so exposed to the elements.\u00a0 Like window frames wouldn\u2019t be made out of wood, so that shit like this could even occur, and maybe be made from the composite materials that my siding is made from or something.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, I\u2019m just salty because my home fell victim to moisture, and I\u2019m agitated that it all stems from wood rot, and wondering why everything is made out of wood in the first place.\u00a0 I know about a grand is pretty good for repairs, but because it\u2019s definitely coming out of the blue and unexpected, any sort of expenditure like this is unwelcome lately.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got my hands plenty full without my house needing to come into play.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seriously, honest question.\u00a0 Why are homes made out of wood?\u00a0 A flimsy, degradable material that is so susceptible to the elements, that has pretty definitive expiration conditions.\u00a0 Especially when there\u2019s a world of materials out there that aren\u2019t nearly as vulnerable? Naturally, with a query like that, it stands to believe that I\u2019ve gone through … Continue reading Why are homes made out of wood?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,79,45,121,52,96],"class_list":["post-47226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-angst","tag-cashmoney","tag-fail","tag-homeownership","tag-owned","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47229,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47226\/revisions\/47229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}