>>20667856>just rotted away after 40 years.other criticisms valid this one is not the eastern US is FULL of 200 and some 300 year old wooden houses. Mine that I am sitting in right now is almost 120 years old and made entirely of wood and plaster above the foundation.
Wood can be a very solid and long lasting material, and the ease of modification is a very nice. All the collapsing rotten houses you see are actually newer, corner cut construction. Mass production to save money. Those houses are made of fiberboard, structural foam, various polymer materials and other modern cheaper and dirtier materials. Actual wooden houses or the sort made in the US from the 1600s to the 1950s last literal centuries if cared for.
There are multiple 200 year old wooden houses near me. They're not fancy or expensive they're not anyones old mansion, they're just nice well built dwellings that have been occupied and maintained continuously.
I would not want a wooden house in an area with Tornadoes, Hurricanes or Wildfires, but around here the only weather threat is Blizzards and Wood frame houses cope with those just fine as long as the roof was built steep for it.
