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Old 03-04-2021, 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Garywt View Post
I was thinking the same thing. I just say brick or wood when talking about the 2 choices.

We have brick and is is great.
Brick is usually just a cosmetic facade attached to a wood framing system. The wood framing is the load bearing part of the wall, not the brick. However, the concrete block houses in The Villages, use the block as the load bearing part of the walls, so load bearing wood framing is not needed. Other houses use a load bearing wood framing system with vinyl siding.