The foundation in most homes is only 4 inches thick. This causes the foundation to crack in 8 to 10 years as the ground shifts. The house is built with cheap wood, termite treated, they claim. The house is priced at 150,000 to half a million or more dollars. Yet the house is built for under 50,000. The profit the builders make on each home is outrageous. In Louisiana and other places, hurricanes lift these homes and the insurance damages are colossal.
In India, the homes are built with a 3 feet deep foundation and 9 inch thick brick walls. The houses never burn down, the hurricane can do nothing to the house and the house never has to be insured against fire or storms. Here the insurance companies are a big scam and most homes are built out of cheap material and the insurance is high. When will this change? When will home builders give buyers the actual value of the home they purchase? I am not against the lenders taking interest nor against the home builders making a profit.
2006-09-02 09:16:37 · 6 answers · asked by ilovegr8food 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
obviously, you need to do some more research as your info on American home building is way off. Foundations are built to code, something like 12 inches wide and at least 6 inches deep. Cheap wood? Compare that to block or concrete and it is a lot cheaper. Plus, we have the luxury of choosing styles that brick just does allow. Your foundations have to be that thick to support the weight of the brick. In America, wood home 'give' a little in storms and earthquakes. Brick homes tend to show stress cracks - usually a new one everyday. We have indoor plumbing too. Having wood allows us the space needed for drains and water supply. We have electricity too. Wires are hidden out of sight. I could go on...
2006-09-02 09:31:12 · answer #1 · answered by Newt 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Concerning the profit a builder might make on a home. It is closer to 20 to 25% if he is lucky. Remember, he is taking all the risk on the cost of the house.
When we built our current home, we took all the risk and the builder was guaranteed a fixed fee and no other profit. We got our house for a very reasonable price and the builder was happy because he knew how much he was going to make no matter what.
2006-09-02 09:41:43 · answer #2 · answered by oil field trash 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who the hell would want to live in India? If it's so great, why are the Indians flooding to these shores? If you live in India you have to have bars on the windows because of the robbers, and in monsoon season, the snakes come in the house.
What determines home value is location. Why do you think the same house will sell for ten times as much in southern California or Long Island than in Kansas or Oklahoma?
Rather own a shack in San Diego, Santa Monica or Manhattan than a palace in Madras.
2006-09-10 09:17:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excuse Me? I live in New Orleans, and am sitting in my "matchstick" house as I type. I have never had a problem with termites, and my house is proved in two major hurricanes. It is not the wind which destroyed the houses...It was the three meters of water. Let me see a mud hut stand up to that for three weeks.
I know for a fact that my house can withstand 170 mile per hour winds plus, without losing a shingle. How about you?
2006-09-02 10:14:58 · answer #4 · answered by Don 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2017-01-25 01:59:14 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i will never change my wood house for thick, brick or cement house. my house is breading and the technology we use are healtier to live. how long it take your house to heat or cool down?
2006-09-04 20:51:11 · answer #6 · answered by bianca 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋