Balloon frames, timber frames and cut nails: BAS Renovations goes back in time

A single short weighing old framing methods against new passed five million views in three days, and a former firefighter in the comments backs up its warning about balloon frames.

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Was old framing better than New? 🤔 #framing #history #balloonframe #timberframe

One short, five million views. BAS Renovations, the Michigan builder whose channel motto is "Learn it-Build it," posted just one video this week, and it turned the workshop into a history lesson: "Was old framing better than New?" sets timber framing, balloon framing and today's methods side by side in full-size models, weighs the pros and cons of each, then pulls them all down.

It took off fast, with about two and a half million views on its first day. The comment section is a chorus of people marveling that so much fits into two minutes, and one sharp-eyed viewer noticed that the balloon-frame model was even built with cut nails, the kind of period detail most builders would skip. The fire point drew the most personal replies: balloon frames, with studs running uninterrupted from foundation to roof, let flames climb from bottom to top, and a viewer who has fought fires in such houses confirms it. Another remembers an 1800s timber-frame family home that stood through a tornado.

The older shorts are still working too. The American-versus-European building comparison from August has passed 32 million views, and a two-week-old short on how a patio roof fails keeps moving. Together they pushed the channel to more than double its usual daily views, about 11 million over the week, the most among the DIY and home channels nearest its size, where most of the others had a calmer stretch. Around 30,000 new subscribers came along with them.

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The videos drawing views on BAS Renovations right now

American vs. European home building 🏠 learn how we build so differen…32,029,475 views How a patio roof fails 🤔 follow local codes hire professionals 💪 #p…8,725,620 views

The numbers

Here is how BAS Renovations' week looks in figures.

views gained this week, compared with similar channels

BAS Renovations

11,431,264

Workshop Companion

629,898

Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Gen…

541,751

Woodworking Tools TV

334,624

Beginner Life

303,550

weldingtipsandtricks

198,052

Woodworking Craftsman

195,741

subscribers

1,080,000

▲ 30,000 in the last 7 days

total views

252,576,436

views per day

3,862,001

typical day: 1,655,534

this week's videos (first-day views)

Was old framing better than New? 🤔 #fr…

2,604,758

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

weldingtipsandtricks

1,130,000

Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Gen…

1,120,000

Woodworking Craftsman

1,120,000

Workshop Companion

1,120,000

Silver Cymbal

1,090,000

BAS Renovations

1,080,000

Beginner Life

1,080,000

Midlife Stockman

1,080,000

Woodworking Tools TV

1,030,000

As of October 4, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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