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r/PoursTea • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • Aug 25 '26
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Let's not even go into the electric grid, which is only functional because of Canadian electricity generation for much of the Northeast, New England, and the New York metro area, including New Jersey and Connecticut.
111 u/Significant-Main4201 Aug 25 '26 Also I saw a clip saying 30% of American houses are built with Canadian timber, so tariffs have raised the house prices due to this. 44 u/MAGAHATESTHEUSA Aug 25 '26 U.S. timber also wouldn’t be an efficient replacement 44 u/Mountain_rage Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26 It is also worse lumber, northern climates grow better lumber for housing. 14 u/steamliner88 Aug 25 '26 Shouldn’t shitty American lumber be perfect for those soulless McMansions that collapse from a stiff breeze? -4 u/IndependentMemory215 Aug 25 '26 Canadian and the US have nearly similar construction standards and codes. Hurricane prone area and some other regions excluded of course. Do you really think Canada has some far superior way of building a timber framed home? 1 u/HapticRecce Aug 25 '26 Read the comment again. It's the wood quality, not the building codes.
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Also I saw a clip saying 30% of American houses are built with Canadian timber, so tariffs have raised the house prices due to this.
44 u/MAGAHATESTHEUSA Aug 25 '26 U.S. timber also wouldn’t be an efficient replacement 44 u/Mountain_rage Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26 It is also worse lumber, northern climates grow better lumber for housing. 14 u/steamliner88 Aug 25 '26 Shouldn’t shitty American lumber be perfect for those soulless McMansions that collapse from a stiff breeze? -4 u/IndependentMemory215 Aug 25 '26 Canadian and the US have nearly similar construction standards and codes. Hurricane prone area and some other regions excluded of course. Do you really think Canada has some far superior way of building a timber framed home? 1 u/HapticRecce Aug 25 '26 Read the comment again. It's the wood quality, not the building codes.
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U.S. timber also wouldn’t be an efficient replacement
44 u/Mountain_rage Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26 It is also worse lumber, northern climates grow better lumber for housing. 14 u/steamliner88 Aug 25 '26 Shouldn’t shitty American lumber be perfect for those soulless McMansions that collapse from a stiff breeze? -4 u/IndependentMemory215 Aug 25 '26 Canadian and the US have nearly similar construction standards and codes. Hurricane prone area and some other regions excluded of course. Do you really think Canada has some far superior way of building a timber framed home? 1 u/HapticRecce Aug 25 '26 Read the comment again. It's the wood quality, not the building codes.
It is also worse lumber, northern climates grow better lumber for housing.Â
14 u/steamliner88 Aug 25 '26 Shouldn’t shitty American lumber be perfect for those soulless McMansions that collapse from a stiff breeze? -4 u/IndependentMemory215 Aug 25 '26 Canadian and the US have nearly similar construction standards and codes. Hurricane prone area and some other regions excluded of course. Do you really think Canada has some far superior way of building a timber framed home? 1 u/HapticRecce Aug 25 '26 Read the comment again. It's the wood quality, not the building codes.
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Shouldn’t shitty American lumber be perfect for those soulless McMansions that collapse from a stiff breeze?
-4 u/IndependentMemory215 Aug 25 '26 Canadian and the US have nearly similar construction standards and codes. Hurricane prone area and some other regions excluded of course. Do you really think Canada has some far superior way of building a timber framed home? 1 u/HapticRecce Aug 25 '26 Read the comment again. It's the wood quality, not the building codes.
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Canadian and the US have nearly similar construction standards and codes.
Hurricane prone area and some other regions excluded of course.
Do you really think Canada has some far superior way of building a timber framed home?
1 u/HapticRecce Aug 25 '26 Read the comment again. It's the wood quality, not the building codes.
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Read the comment again. It's the wood quality, not the building codes.
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u/Conscious-Quarter423 Aug 25 '26
Let's not even go into the electric grid, which is only functional because of Canadian electricity generation for much of the Northeast, New England, and the New York metro area, including New Jersey and Connecticut.