[SoHoVe]

Multiple businesses damaged in overnight fire - Story | KLAS-TV

Isn't this the 3ed in about 2 weeks???

[EA]

Fire is cheaper than bankruptcy.

[tijlover]

In a country that's obsessed with building everything with wood products, arsonists wouldn't have as much fun if they built everything like they do in Mexico, and other countries, all concrete!

And the powerful, lobbying lumber companies laugh all the way to the bank!

[BBMW]

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You can build with something other than wood. If I built a house for myself, likely it would be in something called ICF construction (look it up.)

It's just other materials build slower and are more expensive. So considering most people don't build their own houses, and build mass produced tract houses, what do you think building are going to use, unless buyer demand something else, and are willing to pay a premium for it.

Oh, and BTW, strip malls are usually not made of wood.

[tijlover]

Originally Posted by BBMW

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Oh, and BTW, strip malls are usually not made of wood.

In let's-build-it-as-fast-a-possible Las Vegas?

[robojester]

When we built back in MN i was looking at SIPS for construction.

With the occasional quake we get here I would not care for a poured concrete wall system. However they are gaining steam.

I want an older cinder block box with a good roof and I can go from there.

[BBMW]

AFAIK they use a lot of tilt up construction, which is really quick. Either that or block. Wood frame is mostly used in residential.

Originally Posted by tijlover

In let's-build-it-as-fast-a-possible Las Vegas?

[Tek_Freek]

Any contractors here use metal studs for commercial?

[UncleMoon]

Originally Posted by BBMW

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You can build with something other than wood. If I built a house for myself, likely it would be in something called ICF construction (look it up.)

It's just other materials build slower and are more expensive. So considering most people don't build their own houses, and build mass produced tract houses, what do you think building are going to use, unless buyer demand something else, and are willing to pay a premium for it.

Oh, and BTW, strip malls are usually not made of wood.

My folks did this back in 2000. 3,800 sq ft house, no basement, indoor pool. Was like a meat locker most of the time, and not one wall on the interior was load bearing.

[tijlover]

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that wood products were a factor in this fire, and the lack of cinder block walls between the units.

I live in a townhouse complex, cinder block walls rising 2 stories to the top, separating the units. A fire consumed a unit here sometime ago, and the fire was restricted to that unit only, never spread to an adjacent unit.

There's tons of empty commercial space in strip centers in this city, scattered all over the valley, and next time take a peak, see what separates the units!