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Well There's Your Problem | Episode 46 : Five-over-Ones

Name: Well There's Your Problem | Episode 46 : Five-over-Ones
Description: An episode of the Well There's Your Problem podcast on five-over-one buildings, wood-frame floors atop concrete bases, with engineering background and some oil industry news. It is long, rambling and has NSFW language.

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2 HN users recommended this podcast episode in 2 different months between 2021 and 2024.

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Recommended in housing and architecture threads for its engineers' critique of five-over-one construction.

An episode of the Well There's Your Problem podcast on five-over-one buildings, wood-frame floors atop concrete bases, with engineering background and some oil industry news. It is long, rambling and has NSFW language.

Pull quote: “Here's an enlightening chapter of "Well there's your problem" podcast about this with actual civil engineers” (HN, 2021)

Also tagged: five-over-one construction, five-over-one, wood construction, housing, engineering failures, architecture

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3 labeled comments from the HN archive; up to 20 are kept per video, favoring different commenters. Each one links back to the original thread.

Recommends glogla June 2021 under So you want to build a house more efficiently

Civil engineers discuss engineered wood in American houses.

American houses aren't really built from "wood" as in directly from trees - they are build from "engineered wood" like fiberboard and particleboard. That's a lot of industrial processing with a lot of oil-based glues and so on. By weight, the houses are almost more oil than wood. Here's an enlightening chapter of "Well there's your problem" podcast about this with actual civil engineers [this video]

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Recommends cr125rider June 2024 under In Praise of 5-Over-1 Buildings (2019)

Engineers-and-others podcast episode ripping into five-over-one buildings, rambling and NSFW.

A podcast, Well There’s Your Problem, run by some engineers and others who rip into them a bit: [this video] Some NSFW language I’m sure. Lots of rambling. It’s a journey.

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Citations, criticism and jokes

Cites it _huayra_ November 2021 under When is the revolution in architecture coming?

Podcast on why five-over-one construction is a disaster.

Yes, a common construction are these five-over-ones, with a steel-reinforced concrete first floor (for retail) and then wood framed 5-story apartments above. This podcast goes over what an absolute disaster this type of construction is [0], but for apartments in most major US cities west of the Mississippi, it is hard to avoid _some_ sort of wood framing. [0] [this video]

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