THE VIDEO SHELF · five-over-one construction
Well There's Your Problem | Episode 46 : Five-over-Ones
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended in housing and architecture threads for its engineers' critique of five-over-one construction.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Well There's Your Problem Podcast
- Topic
- five-over-one construction
- Format
- podcast
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
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 …
glogla on Hacker News · 2021-06
In So you want to build a house more efficientlyA podcast, Well There’s Your Problem, run by some engineers and others who rip into them a bit: [VIDEO] Some NSFW language I’m sure. Lots of rambling. It’s a journey.
cr125rider on Hacker News · 2024-06
In In Praise of 5-Over-1 Buildings (2019)
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