Steel frames, wood houses and an 'iron triangle' for Kris Krohn
Carson Tietjen asks whether a business can be cheaper, faster and better at once, and Kris answers with Amazon, Netflix and a three-day frame for a 3,000-square-foot home.
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Why Wood Houses Are Losing to Steel (Cheaper, Faster AND Stronger)
Kris Krohn spent his week on one material. Six uploads went up, and nearly all of them circle the same idea: that homes in America could be framed in recycled steel instead of wood.
The longest of them, "Why Wood Houses Are Losing to Steel (Cheaper, Faster AND Stronger)", starts far from any building site. Carson Tietjen puts the old "iron triangle" of business to Kris: cheaper, faster or better, pick two. Kris answers with Amazon, Uber and Dell, and with Blockbuster and Netflix, before turning to the housing shortage the description puts at 4.6 million homes. The video then visits Australia, where steel framing took off, and lands on the comparison the title promises. By the description's account, a steel frame for a 3,000-square-foot house goes up in three or four days, where wood takes weeks.
The rest of the week fills in the edges: a look at 3D-printed steel-framed houses, a pitch to builders on switching, and a talk on housing and the retirement gap. The newest steel video, half a day old, is picking up views fastest.
The week's most watched upload, a short question about whether timber framing is sustainable, turned its comment section into a debate. Several viewers answer that trees can be grown for building while metal has to be mined, and one asks, deadpan, how to grow a steel tree.
The channel ran a little below its usual pace, with about 60,000 views over the week, the fewest among the money and investing channels nearest its size. Nearby, Ramit Sethi's I Will Teach You To Be Rich is running well above its own norm.
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- Channel
- Kris Krohn
- Subscribers
- 1,120,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 60,510
- Videos published this week
- 6
- Video published
- October 1, 2026
- Video views so far
- 2,265
- Views on its first day
- 1,908
The numbers
Here is how Kris Krohn's week of steel and housing videos added up.
💡 Test your knowledge
Kris uses Blockbuster as a lesson in disruption. Which company began by mailing DVDs to subscribers before turning to streaming?
Netflix started as a DVD-by-mail rental service in 1997 and later moved into streaming, while Blockbuster's stores faded.
