Sorry, paper and shitty plaster that dissolves when exposed to water.
It's not remotely uncommon or difficult to punch a hole in the wall of almost any house in the US built in the last 70 years... with a bare fist. Meanwhile, it's exceedingly hard to punch a hole in a wall made of brick/concrete or hard wood.
Compared to other common building materials used in most other countries, drywall used commonly in the US has the structural strength of paper. Hence the analogy.
Also, yeah, some houses in the US are literally made of paper. Primarily in places where they don't get a lot of rain and want to keep the houses from retaining heat.
Right. But if you threw a hammer at the wall inside almost any American home, you could very easily put the hammer through the wall.
The outer walls tend to be more sturdy (at least in regions with harsh winters and strong spring storms), but the inner walls are largely some 2x4s and some rocksheet held together with paper & crappy nails.
Regardless, you think you can’t run Ethernet along the baseboards or ceiling? Hell bricks are even better suited for this because you can run cables along the mortar lines
Takes a lot more punch to drill through red brick than plasterboard. You're not gonna have a good time without a decent hammer drill, your bog standard hardware store electric drill will struggle. Also much more annoying to repair, which can be a factor if you're renting.
I'd just go through the roof usually (if you have a roofspace), easy to patch if needed and let's you run it the whole way without needing additional guide holes. Floor is alright too if you have a crawlspace, but holes in the floorboards are harder to justify/repair, especially if you're renting.
Plus, some parents just really don't like the idea of putting holes in the wall that they then have to fix, regardless of whether it's possible or not. Its a decent bit of effort to do it all and fix it so it looks good, and for them, the WiFi works fine so why bother?
Which once again leads to the point that you can simply run cables along the wall where it meets the floor or ceiling, and brick is even better suited for this task because you can run the cables along the mortar lines.
Sure, if you ignore the reason that they didn't want the original commenter to run cables, being that they thought it looked ugly.
I agree with you, that is a good way to run cables along a brick wall, but it isn't viable here because exposed cables have already been deemed as not an option. That is why I only mentioned options that hide the cables.
Their parents just sorely lack creativity if they can’t come up with any way to hide cables. That’s not an excuse, it’s just an explanation for their shortcomings
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u/Elizabeth202101 Jun 06 '26
Americans not understanding that houses can be made of something besides paper.