My wife is from upstate New York and every home is made from wood, I don’t think I’ve seen a wooden house in the UK. Maybe one or two grade 1 listed pubs.
I get the proximity to cheaper materials, the availability of brick, local resources etc.. But I also see it reflected in the price £400k, for a 4 bed in East Greenbush (outside Albany), vs £700k for a 4-bedroom brick house outside Chester (I thought roughly equivalent, if not weighted in favor of NY).
Surely there’s a market for cheaper wooden houses in the UK? What’s the deal?
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There used to be more wooden structures in the UK but they stopped after London burned to the ground. We’re much better at treating wood for fire resistance now than we were 400 years ago, but everyone got used to other materials in the UK. The US on the other hand had all that convenient cheap wood useful for mass-producing new houses as the country grew.
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