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LOL if your house was built after ~2013

the people who built it took a lot of shortcuts and it may ...
irradiated locale halford
  05/09/24
my house was built in 1924 and nothing is sealed adequately ...
Transparent menage gay wizard
  05/09/24
it will stand for another 200 years though
irradiated locale halford
  05/09/24
if you are proactive about termites and other decay, probabl...
Transparent menage gay wizard
  05/09/24
At least around here a lot of them are built with 3x5’...
Idiotic startling stag film psychic
  05/09/24
knob and tube wiring is actually a lot easier to work on/mod...
claret space
  05/09/24
Never worked on it aside from demo’ing it out - but wh...
Idiotic startling stag film psychic
  05/09/24
incredibly prole goy mr fix it lol
Sapphire cowardly skinny woman
  05/09/24
Mice eat the cloth or it burns off from heat cycles or it ju...
Aromatic stead legend
  05/09/24
Damn I never thought about that. One of the first things I d...
Idiotic startling stag film psychic
  05/09/24
aluminum wire is fine as long as its large gauge aluminum wi...
beady-eyed emerald brunch
  05/09/24
the knobs are supposed to be tempered ceramic, and if you ca...
claret space
  05/09/24
Conduit
Aromatic stead legend
  05/09/24
lol what modern electrical is insanely easy to work on or...
beady-eyed emerald brunch
  05/09/24
cr. see: The Money Pit w/ Tom Hanks
Transparent menage gay wizard
  05/09/24
that sucks
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  05/09/24
nigger
180 overrated therapy
  05/09/24
they're minecraft buildings
180 overrated therapy
  05/09/24
Jokes on them, my house was built in 2012
Ebony Heady Pisswyrm Weed Whacker
  05/09/24
yea as if the pre 2013 drywall kike construction was much be...
Glassy nighttime half-breed
  05/09/24
You mean after ~1979
mind-boggling brindle hospital
  05/09/24
More like 1929
Aromatic stead legend
  05/09/24
yeah I was being generous
mind-boggling brindle hospital
  05/09/24
You suck imo
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  05/09/24
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Light internet-worthy church building round eye
  05/09/24
I just bought a new build that I watched being built from th...
adulterous electric furnace
  05/09/24
Define solid? 2x6 white wood low grade and 1/2in Chinese d...
Aromatic stead legend
  05/09/24
if your house was built after 1950 you're fairly prole
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  05/09/24
My house was built in 1996, a big builder in the area built ...
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  05/09/24
My house was built in 1900 and is on the local hs girls XC t...
Cerebral Garrison Chad
  05/09/24
LOL at me in my pre-war Emery Roth co-op. Damn, I'm such a p...
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Date: May 9th, 2024 12:21 AM
Author: irradiated locale halford

the people who built it took a lot of shortcuts and it may just collapse at any moment

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47647020)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 12:23 AM
Author: Transparent menage gay wizard

my house was built in 1924 and nothing is sealed adequately and it is drafty as hell in winter, impossible to cool in the summer

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47647023)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 12:28 AM
Author: irradiated locale halford

it will stand for another 200 years though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47647030)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 12:30 AM
Author: Transparent menage gay wizard

if you are proactive about termites and other decay, probably. old houses feel so much more solid than flimsy prefab (((modern))) slop construction.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47647034)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 12:41 AM
Author: Idiotic startling stag film psychic

At least around here a lot of them are built with 3x5’s instead of 2x4’s - and the wood is old growth so it’s sturdier and less susceptible to termites. Even the nails are better/stronger IME.

If you gut out all the old K&T and replace the plumbing you are good to go for another 100 years. I’d buy a shell of a house built between 1880-1920 and remodel it rather than a new build in most cases, but that’s just me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47647040)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 12:43 AM
Author: claret space

knob and tube wiring is actually a lot easier to work on/modify than modern stuff. we need someone to develop a modern knob and tube system with less fire risk.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47647042)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 12:57 AM
Author: Idiotic startling stag film psychic

Never worked on it aside from demo’ing it out - but when I opened up a ceiling I saw it bare in a few places and it did fine for 30-50 years I’m guessing - also kind of wonder how the insulation got stripped. Or was it always bare in some places? Mine was insulated with what looks like a fabric soaked in pitch. The porcelain knobs and tubes are freaking razor sharp if you break them too.

Hardest part of the demo was taking the fuse box out - just because it was lined with asbestos - I wet it down and put spray foam on it and then wet it down again and grabbed the foam - all the asbestos peeled right off. Double bagged it and sent it to the dump.

I think probably 80% of the KT is out now.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47647059)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 8:13 AM
Author: Sapphire cowardly skinny woman

incredibly prole goy mr fix it lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47647257)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 8:24 AM
Author: Aromatic stead legend

Mice eat the cloth or it burns off from heat cycles or it just degrades. It’s rarely a problem unless someone decides to insulate the space around the wire. Aluminum wire is worse.

With lights if you use LED it’s so low current the risk is a lot less.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47647272)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 12:43 PM
Author: Idiotic startling stag film psychic

Damn I never thought about that. One of the first things I did was replace all the lights with LED’s - glad I did.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47648156)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 3:43 PM
Author: beady-eyed emerald brunch

aluminum wire is fine as long as its large gauge aluminum wire. the problems with aluminum wire came from using 10-14awg aluminum wire in the 70s for lighting and outlet circuits. running 1-1-1-3 or 2/0 SER in aluminum to a subpanel is nbd.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47648767)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 5:36 PM
Author: claret space

the knobs are supposed to be tempered ceramic, and if you can pull them off intact, they make very good insulators for other purposes, too. some become kind of brittle over time, depending on conditions in which they are operating, but the material itself from the first half of the 20th century was often quite good, especially by modern standards.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47649067)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 7:58 AM
Author: Aromatic stead legend

Conduit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47647238)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 3:49 PM
Author: beady-eyed emerald brunch

lol what

modern electrical is insanely easy to work on or modify and is significantly less time consuming than K&T

no, hold on, let me place and hand-wind/insulate wires over a series of porcelain knobs and tubes across an open wall instead of just running a single 12/2 romex cable and calling it a day

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47648775)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 12:46 AM
Author: Transparent menage gay wizard

cr.

see: The Money Pit w/ Tom Hanks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47647047)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 12:35 AM
Author: Dashing really tough guy foreskin

that sucks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47647037)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 12:44 AM
Author: 180 overrated therapy

nigger

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47647045)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 12:44 AM
Author: 180 overrated therapy

they're minecraft buildings

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47647044)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 3:40 AM
Author: Ebony Heady Pisswyrm Weed Whacker

Jokes on them, my house was built in 2012

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47647133)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 7:59 AM
Author: Glassy nighttime half-breed

yea as if the pre 2013 drywall kike construction was much better. its funny ameriturds dont even realize how TTT construction is in US

in vietnam high rise lux apt it was pure concrete walls, i wasnt even use to this shit, in US u cld stick ur cock into a wall and a hole will form. when i tried to ram my chocobar into the viet wall it furking hurt

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47647241)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 8:00 AM
Author: mind-boggling brindle hospital

You mean after ~1979

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47647242)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 8:01 AM
Author: Aromatic stead legend

More like 1929

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47647243)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 8:02 AM
Author: mind-boggling brindle hospital

yeah I was being generous

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47647244)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 3:57 PM
Author: Orchid patrolman meetinghouse

You suck imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47648800)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 5:40 PM
Author: Light internet-worthy church building round eye



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47649077)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 12:15 PM
Author: adulterous electric furnace

I just bought a new build that I watched being built from the ground up from a production builder in a new development. Behind the wall construction was good but finish work was whatever.

We bought the home stock and are doing a complete remodel with our own contractor but even he has commented that all the behind the wall construction is solid which has been my experience as well.

It shares one wall with the adjacent neighbor and if I'm outside walking by I can hear his dog barking but inside our place it's completely silent. Even sound between levels is minimal compared to our prior condo which was built in the 80s with standard 2x4 construction and copper tubing which was all developing pin holes throughout the building.

With that said, we had a fairly reputable production builder. I've heard tons of horror stories from other production builds though so yeah I would never trust it if I hadn't watched it being built from ground up and chiming in anytime something was half assed.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47648022)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 3:37 PM
Author: Aromatic stead legend

Define solid? 2x6 white wood low grade and 1/2in Chinese drywall?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47648743)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 3:48 PM
Author: pontificating autistic trailer park

if your house was built after 1950 you're fairly prole

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47648774)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 3:59 PM
Author: razzmatazz business firm toilet seat

My house was built in 1996, a big builder in the area built it for his daughter. It is staggering the amount of cheap materials that he used and 30 years later I find myself spending far more that I would like to replace things (HVAC systems, doors, decks, windows, etc.)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47648808)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 5:31 PM
Author: Cerebral Garrison Chad

My house was built in 1900 and is on the local hs girls XC training loop. Rate me

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47649059)



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Date: May 9th, 2024 9:37 PM
Author: Flickering Boltzmann Scourge Upon The Earth

LOL at me in my pre-war Emery Roth co-op. Damn, I'm such a prole!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526702&forum_id=2#47649536)