How many trees does it take to build one house?

Question

say a regular 3 bedroom, 2 bath house. How many trees would that take?

Answer 1

how many bales of cotton does it take to make a pair of jeans for your ***?

Answer 2

too many ,

better build with adobe .or straw bales ,and thats makes a much better insulated house ,it is also much cheaper

Answer 3

good question, wrong section. try posting it in one of the home improvement or building sections in yahoo answers.

you will get better answers there

Answer 4

Good question.  According to the Journal of Construction Education, a standard 1500 square foot, 3-bedroom, one-story gable house with slab-on-grade foundation in Florida (building codes make a difference) takes about 400 board feet of lumber.

According to a paper authored by David B South (Professor School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences and Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station Auburn University, AL), a typical 10 year old Southern Pine might have a diameter at breast height of 10 in and height of 53.5 ft.

According to the About:Lumber timber calculator, using the above Southern Pine, we would get about 75 board feet (using the International Rule) per tree.

So it would take around 5.3 of these trees to build the house we described above.