My House is a Basket of Surprises

"Little Black Coupe Turned Silver" (littleblackcoupe) 12/06/2016 at 11:34 • Filed to: None

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After waiting for approximately forever, my house is getting all new windows. It still has the original ones from 1940.

This is what greeted us upon getting the first one out.

That is all brick, there’s no wood frame. The contractor said he’s never seen a house built like this in his life, and he’s been doing this awhile. We are guessing all the windows will be like this, since the front door was the same way. We hoped that was a one-off, but no such luck.

Off to buy some boards and lag bolts so we can get this rolling.

ESSSIX GmbH - Accountant/Wagon Thumper > Little Black Coupe Turned Silver 12/06/2016 at 11:36

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Hows that for insulation lol

McMike > Little Black Coupe Turned Silver 12/06/2016 at 11:39

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The first floor of my Mom’s house is like that. Cinderblock covered with a facad of brick.

Learned this during her kitchen remodel this year. Only thing between the drywall and cinder block is some 1x.

TheHondaBro > Little Black Coupe Turned Silver 12/06/2016 at 11:41

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If there’s a fire, your house turns into a pizza oven.

PotbellyJoe and 42 others > Little Black Coupe Turned Silver 12/06/2016 at 11:44

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My house was built in 1917 by the guys working for the railroad. They sourced the materials through the same people sourcing the rail lines. I have cedar framing and some really weird joints at places. Quiet as anything and bug-free though, haha.

In 1917, they built the outside wall, then would cut out a door and then build a door according to that hole. It was sized based on the owners of the house. Our guy must have been really tall because when we replaced it we had to bring the entire assembly of molding (walnut) down 9 inches to fit modern standard doors.

Little Black Coupe Turned Silver > ESSSIX GmbH - Accountant/Wagon Thumper 12/06/2016 at 11:48

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Honestly, this house is solid. Brick exterior and apparently this layer of hollow clay tiles. The walls aren’t Sheetrock, it’s some sort of board with one inch holes all over it that is then covered in a half inch layer of concrete. Also lots of insulation in the attic.

Little Black Coupe Turned Silver > McMike 12/06/2016 at 11:50

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I wish I had drywall. The walls are like a half inch board full of one inch holes, which was then covered in a half inch of concrete. We took down a wall between the two smallest bedrooms and almost died trying to get through it.

shop-teacher > Little Black Coupe Turned Silver 12/06/2016 at 11:54

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The house next door to the one I grew up in, was three layers of brick for the outer walls. Then at some point somebody framed 2x4 walls inside of that to fill with insulation. The walls were 19" thick.

Little Black Coupe Turned Silver > TheHondaBro 12/06/2016 at 11:55

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For real, I already know the basement is the same clay tiles, since yesterday was spent taking a massive saw to the foundation to cut out the new escape window since I’m putting in a new master suite down there.

LongbowMkII > shop-teacher 12/06/2016 at 11:59

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Was this to keep the monsters out, or to keep them in ? *dun dun dun*

Little Black Coupe Turned Silver > shop-teacher 12/06/2016 at 12:01

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My basement is going to be about 10" or so. There’s ~6" of clay tile and we are adding framing so we can add 4" of insulation.

Cash Rewards > Little Black Coupe Turned Silver 12/06/2016 at 12:11

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From 1940, shouldn’t they be taking some lead precautions? They had to put up plastic to seal the inside of the house from any debris when we had ours done.

shop-teacher > Little Black Coupe Turned Silver 12/06/2016 at 12:11

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Smart. That’ll be worth it.

shop-teacher > LongbowMkII 12/06/2016 at 12:12

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Considering my dad was one of 11 kids, and they lived next door to this house ... my guess is to keep them out.

ESSSIX GmbH - Accountant/Wagon Thumper > Little Black Coupe Turned Silver 12/06/2016 at 12:14

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Where is this? Hows the brick look like outside?

Getting into a house when ever this short sale closes. We signed contracts in July, but I’m not in a rush to start paying that mortgage lol.

Anyways the house is in a town that was famous for brick making (Haverstraw, NY), it has siding but I’m hoping their brick underneath. It was built in 1891 so finding brick isnt far fetched, common materials and such. All the houses on the street up (much larger houses) are of brick, all built about the same time give or take a few decades.

Lots of plaster too.

Little Black Coupe Turned Silver > ESSSIX GmbH - Accountant/Wagon Thumper 12/06/2016 at 12:20

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The middle of Nebraska. Outside brick is in great shape, I thought it would need a tuck point job but it’s still solid. This is the back of the house with new escape window.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Little Black Coupe Turned Silver 12/06/2016 at 13:21

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They used to build houses like that and it was quite the art form to do it right. It’s called “plaster”.

Little Black Coupe Turned Silver > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 12/06/2016 at 15:16

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This has a half inch of large grit concrete with a thin skim coat of plaster. My house is a beast.