Lovely. With the speculation that our storms will get worse as time goes on our future is looking like Florida with temperatures like Canada.
Great if this becomes a thing, timber frames are great for heating, quicker to put up, and less environmentally damaging. Win win really.
I saw the title, presumed it was a Waterford Whisper article, checked the source and couldn’t believe this wasn’t satire!
It’s like this guy tries to say the thing that’ll piss people off the most.
Giving an alternative by making other things more expensive is shameful.
Peculiar that a green politician wants us cutting down trees.
CONCRETE BUILT IS BETTER BUILT…no?
Ah timber, a plentiful Irish resource.
But…. We don’t have any timber there Eamon
Am I right in saying that the outer leaf of the house is blocks? And the floor and foundation involve a good bit of concrete too?
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And in time, prices of timber should move people towards more turf frame huts.
I’m all for timber houses, way more efficient than our usual concrete builds, but I’m not sure on the timing.
As we can see on every TV news channel, wooden houses don’t do well in storms and we’re going to be getting a lot more of those.
Maybe we need a change in fundamental house designs too..? Would imitating our current concrete houses in wood produce a storm proof structure? Should we be looking at the wooden houses in Greenland and Norway for inspiration?
This and cross laminated timber should become a standard along with hempcrete.
You can build skyscrapers with cross laminated timber.
And the price of houses will continue to spiral out of control.
That would be fine if you could easier build timber framed homes from a planning, insurance and cost perspective. Remember the timber shortage last year due to the backlog in lisences?
Also all of this is very remisisnent to what happened during the collapse of the Roman Empire only the elite and the Church were able to build concrete buildings due to costs and economic issues, this led to a complete switch over to timber buildings. In fact in Britian they lost the knowledge on how to make concrete for a couple of hundred years…dark ages etc. During the mid empire concrete buildings were widespread in the Empire.
So can you show us a design for inner city timber frame apartments minister?
I would have thought one off timber frame buildings out in the country side were considered a bad idea in general for trying to fix the property problems we’re currently facing, am I wrong?
People do realise there is a massive supply chain issue with timber at the moment so this is just going to freeze the building of housing even more
In Scandinavia they generally get long cold winters and cool temperate summers. Timber houses are superb in these climates.
In Ireland the car could be frozen at 8am, torrential rain at 1pm then sun splitting the rocks/BBQ weather by 6pm. This is 9/10 months of the year.
The frequent fluctuations in temperature cause timber to expand then contract until eventually it cracks.
Timber is the only viable renewable construction material… it also looks nicer, is easier to repair, better for heating… this is a huge win folks. Fuck concrete.
He also wanted to release wolves back into the countryside. Who’s going to stop those wolves from huffing and puffing and blowing down those timber houses?
Isn’t timber up 100% since last year ?
Yet insurance companies hate timer frame houses
ahh yeah, just about when we start for one moment building concrete apartments for some soundproofing and eamo rips it away back to shite ones where you get woken up by a lad 2 doors down farting.
I looked at a modular home and was told no for a mortgage
Next we can get planners to allow us to have eaves (very helpful if you’re trying to prevent water running down a wall)
Typical green party bullshit. If you want something legislate for it, provide aids, grants building programmes. Just making the opposite more expensive just makes everything equally expensive and inaccessible to most people.
Timber frame housing works fine if it’s done right. We are a bit overly conservative about some of this stuff.
This man is a testament to the failure of Irish politics in recent decades.
Brick houses are superior
Ryan is pure moronic scum.
He could literally be an American presidential candidate. Literally one stupid thing after another. It really begs the question is he actually serious. Surely he can’t be? This cannot be real.
We have dreamed of living in one of those prefabricated log homes for the longest time but good luck in getting planning permission in this country
How did FFG not stop him.
Green activists are crying out over cutting down the rainforest and his solution is to chop down more .
What a fucking idiot
He lives in an entirely different Ireland than the rest of us.
What? You are taxing concrete? Da fuc?
In this part of the world, with this weather, in this humidity, concentrated entirely within you kitchen?!?
Yes
Will it work?
No.
Somebody put that eejit back in his box before we’re dealing with a massive woodworm or greenwood warping scandal in 20 years.
Practically every Green Party policy can be condensed into “a tax”.
I’m sure this will be a very welcome move in our stormy climate…
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Lovely. With the speculation that our storms will get worse as time goes on our future is looking like Florida with temperatures like Canada.
Great if this becomes a thing, timber frames are great for heating, quicker to put up, and less environmentally damaging. Win win really.
I saw the title, presumed it was a Waterford Whisper article, checked the source and couldn’t believe this wasn’t satire!
It’s like this guy tries to say the thing that’ll piss people off the most.
Giving an alternative by making other things more expensive is shameful.
Peculiar that a green politician wants us cutting down trees.
CONCRETE BUILT IS BETTER BUILT…no?
Ah timber, a plentiful Irish resource.
But…. We don’t have any timber there Eamon
Am I right in saying that the outer leaf of the house is blocks? And the floor and foundation involve a good bit of concrete too?
[deleted]
And in time, prices of timber should move people towards more turf frame huts.
I’m all for timber houses, way more efficient than our usual concrete builds, but I’m not sure on the timing.
As we can see on every TV news channel, wooden houses don’t do well in storms and we’re going to be getting a lot more of those.
Maybe we need a change in fundamental house designs too..? Would imitating our current concrete houses in wood produce a storm proof structure? Should we be looking at the wooden houses in Greenland and Norway for inspiration?
This and cross laminated timber should become a standard along with hempcrete.
You can build skyscrapers with cross laminated timber.
And the price of houses will continue to spiral out of control.
That would be fine if you could easier build timber framed homes from a planning, insurance and cost perspective. Remember the timber shortage last year due to the backlog in lisences?
Also all of this is very remisisnent to what happened during the collapse of the Roman Empire only the elite and the Church were able to build concrete buildings due to costs and economic issues, this led to a complete switch over to timber buildings. In fact in Britian they lost the knowledge on how to make concrete for a couple of hundred years…dark ages etc. During the mid empire concrete buildings were widespread in the Empire.
So can you show us a design for inner city timber frame apartments minister?
I would have thought one off timber frame buildings out in the country side were considered a bad idea in general for trying to fix the property problems we’re currently facing, am I wrong?
People do realise there is a massive supply chain issue with timber at the moment so this is just going to freeze the building of housing even more
In Scandinavia they generally get long cold winters and cool temperate summers. Timber houses are superb in these climates.
In Ireland the car could be frozen at 8am, torrential rain at 1pm then sun splitting the rocks/BBQ weather by 6pm. This is 9/10 months of the year.
The frequent fluctuations in temperature cause timber to expand then contract until eventually it cracks.
Timber is the only viable renewable construction material… it also looks nicer, is easier to repair, better for heating… this is a huge win folks. Fuck concrete.
He also wanted to release wolves back into the countryside. Who’s going to stop those wolves from huffing and puffing and blowing down those timber houses?
Isn’t timber up 100% since last year ?
Yet insurance companies hate timer frame houses
ahh yeah, just about when we start for one moment building concrete apartments for some soundproofing and eamo rips it away back to shite ones where you get woken up by a lad 2 doors down farting.
I looked at a modular home and was told no for a mortgage
Next we can get planners to allow us to have eaves (very helpful if you’re trying to prevent water running down a wall)
Typical green party bullshit. If you want something legislate for it, provide aids, grants building programmes. Just making the opposite more expensive just makes everything equally expensive and inaccessible to most people.
Timber frame housing works fine if it’s done right. We are a bit overly conservative about some of this stuff.
This man is a testament to the failure of Irish politics in recent decades.
Brick houses are superior
Ryan is pure moronic scum.
He could literally be an American presidential candidate. Literally one stupid thing after another. It really begs the question is he actually serious. Surely he can’t be? This cannot be real.
We have dreamed of living in one of those prefabricated log homes for the longest time but good luck in getting planning permission in this country
How did FFG not stop him.
Green activists are crying out over cutting down the rainforest and his solution is to chop down more .
What a fucking idiot
He lives in an entirely different Ireland than the rest of us.
What? You are taxing concrete? Da fuc?
In this part of the world, with this weather, in this humidity, concentrated entirely within you kitchen?!?
Yes
Will it work?
No.
Somebody put that eejit back in his box before we’re dealing with a massive woodworm or greenwood warping scandal in 20 years.
Practically every Green Party policy can be condensed into “a tax”.
I’m sure this will be a very welcome move in our stormy climate…