Safety of Wooden Houses

quality of construction methods of each is the question you should be asking.

Ask the 3 little pigs !

Or give more specifics; where I live, what may appear to be a stone or brick house is now usually wood construction with a veneer set atop a poured concrete foundation.

GA - you beat me to it.

Why don't you build one of each and let us know.

Poured concrete walls with steel stud walls and a metal roof is the strongest combination...the less wood the better...Here in Florida they use cement block a lot and run rebar down every other column and fill it with poured concrete, this works well....with rebar running from footer to slab, up the walls and into the cap, and the roof tied to the cap...

Talk to some builders where you live. These days with pressure treated wood in the foundation, good foundation drainage, good ventilation including in the attic, termite monitoring, and hardiplank siding, (standard for new construction where I live) new wood homes don't require as much maintenance as your grandfather's wood home.

'Cement brick' is an odd term. Usually it's cement block or brick masonry. I think brick homes are still more expensive than wood frame. You get what you pay for.

One of the first homes I lived in, when I lived in Florida, was a cement block home. I hated the cheap, industrial feel it had.

If one wanted a complete analysis,.... check on insurance rates between the two.

That must be from Homer's long-lost "Boviniad" about the Trojan cow.

I thought it was a Trojan Rabbit.

Choice of construction of houses depends upon environment,climate, earthquake, safety, economy of owner,codes applicable and so on

nowadays simple and quick method of construction is done by using shipping containers or modular housing..

As they say in real estate:LOCATION!LOCATION!LOCATION!
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The environment has a lot to do with it. The homes on many Caribbean Islands are poured concrete. To with stand the many hurricanes that they face. Stick homes just do not hold up well in that environment. In the Pacific north west trees are abundant. Making stick homes with the readily available materials the way to go. My uncle was a builder. Most the homes he built were from field stone. The farming community that he grew up in provided the stone. As farmers for years would remove the stone they plowed up and dump it at the fence rows around the field.

Safety is a broad term, from what?. As with maintenance the different materials have their draw backs.

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*Contradictory request: safety and maintenance are inversely proportional. The 'safer' house will require more maintenance than an 'unsafe' house. Skimp on the maintenance and 'safe' degrades to 'unsafe'*

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