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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Other people have touched on this but I feel like you’re not grasping the scale of it. Growing trees takes a huge amount of surface area. You can’t dig down below the current trees and find more trees like you can with stone.
The US has 40x the surface area as the UK. And, for what it’s worth, despite the huge amount of logging we do in the US, we still have to import a huge amount of lumber from other countries.
Building everything from wood is a luxury of places with massive amounts of land, and even then it can’t keep up.
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