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Grand Vol said:
If any of your spouses or significant others say "oh, what a quaint old house! We should buy that!"

Check the mother ****ing plumbing and mother ****ing pipes!

****ing locked those ****s on there with mother ****ing cement practically!
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You've seen pictures of my house. Built in 1932 with a new fireproof design, meaning cement slabs on all floors, metal frame with cement lathing in the walls. Everything is hard to do. Contractors hate my house, or learn to hate it before the job is done. We moved here in 2007 and have had to replace the furnace and air conditioner, water heater, two toilets, wood stove, oh and the kitchen. Still need new windows, a roof and want to redo the basement.
 
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YorkVol said:
You've seen pictures of my house. Built in 1932 with a new fireproof design, meaning cement slabs on all floors, metal frame with cement lathing in the walls. Everything is hard to do. Contractors hate my house, or learn to hate it before the job is done. We moved here in 2007 and have had to replace the furnace and air conditioner, water heater, two toilets, wood stove, oh and the kitchen. Still need new windows, a roof and want to redo the basement.
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It sounds like a building I own that housed my mother's business, and apartments upstairs. My father and grandfather were in the building materials business, and built it themselves, with a crew of course.

It is a cement block structure, covered in brick, and there isn't a stick of wood or a piece of drywall in it......all brick, concrete, steel beams , and plaster. It is 2 stories above ground, but they planned to possibly add another story later, so it has 6 inches of concrete on a flat roof. You could park cars up there. It also has a basement with concrete columns that look like they belong in a parking garage.

The ceiling joists are steel beams supporting a floor pan with 6 inches of concrete for the basement ceiling, first floor ceiling, and the roof. Everybody has b!tched about working on it for as long as I remember. It was built in 1947 and 48. It will be here long after all of us are gone.
 
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Obsessed said:
Mmmmmm No
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1972 Grad said:
It sounds like a building I own that housed my mother's business, and apartments upstairs. My father and grandfather were in the building materials business, and built it themselves, with a crew of course.

It is a cement block structure, covered in brick, and there isn't a stick of wood or a piece of drywall in it......all brick, concrete, steel beams , and plaster. It is 2 stories above ground, but they planned to possibly add another story later, so it has 6 inches of concrete on a flat roof. You could park cars up there. It also has a basement with concrete columns that look like they belong in a parking garage.

The ceiling joists are steel beams supporting a floor pan with 6 inches of concrete for the basement ceiling, first floor ceiling, and the roof. Everybody has b!tched about working on it for as long as I remember. It was built in 1947 and 48. It will be here long after all of us are gone.
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Only difference is all my walls are poured instead of block and a few years back, before we bought it, they changed the roof from slate to regular asphalt tile.
 
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YorkVol said:
Only difference is all my walls are poured instead of block and a few years back, before we bought it, they changed the roof from slate to regular asphalt tile.
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She sounds well put together. On my building, every interior wall is also block covered by plaster. Even the 4 apartments with 5 rooms each are block and plaster. The guy who appraised it several years ago said that if we had a tornado, he wanted to ride it out in that basement.
 
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