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Nationwide Building Society House Price Index Nov 18

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    #11
    Originally posted by Halo Jones View Post
    Prefab or “off site modular construction” has been they way to go for years, but the English public has a fixated view its only properly built if it’s brick!
    To be fair, prefab must depreciate much faster than (well-built) brick as it literally degrades faster.

    It is more akin to buying a house boat, or a wooden house in Japan, something you know will literally crumble to dust in 60 years or even sooner, and a mortgage would last a significant chunk of that time.

    On that assumption, prefab makes sense only if the cost of the land is by far the dominant factor and the edifice cost is just a minor supplement.
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      #12
      The future is '3D printed construction' not bricks.

      If the process becomes quick and cheap enough we may end up where you can print an extension overnight, or downsize to a bungalow by rebuilding your printed family home over a long weekend.
      Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down. Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on.

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        #13
        Originally posted by Hobosapien View Post
        The picture is obscured further by a whirlwind of sand from crumbling new build mortar.

        New homes 'crumbling due to weak mortar'

        So new builds will be literally crashing down while the properly built stuff will remain the gold standard.
        Not literally as the brickwork is not structural in any of the new builds i have seen

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          #14
          Originally posted by Hobosapien View Post
          The future is '3D printed construction' not bricks.

          If the process becomes quick and cheap enough we may end up where you can print an extension overnight, or downsize to a bungalow by rebuilding your printed family home over a long weekend.
          The future is building with mycelium, you can just grow your own house

          Mushroom mycelium design | Dezeen

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            #15
            50% correction ahead - buckle up.
            "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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              #16
              Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
              50% correction ahead - buckle up.
              hope so, come on Br%xit!

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                #17
                Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
                To be fair, prefab must depreciate much faster than (well-built) brick as it literally degrades faster.

                It is more akin to buying a house boat, or a wooden house in Japan, something you know will literally crumble to dust in 60 years or even sooner, and a mortgage would last a significant chunk of that time.

                On that assumption, prefab makes sense only if the cost of the land is by far the dominant factor and the edifice cost is just a minor supplement.
                So that's most of the South-East of England then...
                Do what thou wilt

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
                  50% correction ahead - buckle up.
                  Make that a 60% correction.

                  "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
                    Make that a 60% correction.
                    You can makeup any figures you wish. They remain the empty-headed vapourings of the congenitally hard of thinking, and simply serve to highlight that here is yet another topic that has passed you by.

                    “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by Hobosapien View Post
                      The future is '3D printed construction' not bricks.

                      If the process becomes quick and cheap enough we may end up where you can print an extension overnight, or downsize to a bungalow by rebuilding your printed family home over a long weekend.
                      In Devon and Wales traditionally, if you could whack up a house within literally 24 hours on common land, it became your freehold:

                      Tŷ unnos
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