My former house was built in 1929 and had amazing wood details and lots of craftsmanship. Of course, being an old house, it had very little insulation, weird wiring, nothing was standard like today, and I loved it. When we remodeled the kitchen we also took down a small wall that lead to a breakfast nook. The contractor wore out several sawzall blades trying to cut through the studs. The wood was super dense and hard. The difficult things about the house were dealing with lath and plaster, wiring that had been updated 3-4 times over 80 years, and small rooms. It wasn't a huge house. But, it was good size, but back then they built houses with small rooms. I did love all the character of an old house.
Don Snook -----Original Message----- From: Kaleb C. Striplin [mailto:ka...@striplin.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 6:26 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Old house projects I love old and big, I really love the wood work and details in this house. It's amazing how well built old houses are. Do you think a house built today will be standing in 70 years? 100 years? Hell a little wind blows such as a baby f0 tornado and they are toast. Sent from my iPhone > On May 30, 2017, at 2:33 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Old and big. Likely not well insulated. Old Windows as noted by Kaleb. > Expensive to heat and cool which may be why it has been abandoned by its > owners. > > RB > >> On 30/05/2017 2:29 PM, Donald Snook via Mercedes wrote: >> Could be a fantastic beautiful home or a moneypit. One thing I'm sure you >> know is houses of this age used REAL WOOD. Slow growth trees that are as >> hard as iron. The bones of the house are probably still good. A foundation >> issue would scare me a little. It would definitely be a long term project. >> Would you try to restore and flip? Or turn it into a rental? Or several >> apartments? >> >> Don Snook >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kaleb C. Striplin [mailto:ka...@striplin.net] >> Sent: Monday, May 29, 2017 6:06 PM >> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> Subject: [MBZ] OT Old house projects >> >> I was scrolling thru local listings the other day out of curiosity on the >> wifes MLS login. Anyway, I saw this house in town and it looked >> interesting. I had her show it to me today. It is going to need a LOT of >> work but it has a lot of potential. It is really a neat old house with >> impressive wood work and detail you do not see anymore. Alot or most of the >> wood along the edge of the roof which attaches to the ends of the roof studs >> (not sure what you call it) as well as sofet (sp) is rotted and will require >> replacement. Floors are uneven in some spots as you would expect in an old >> house and that does not really concern me much. All of the windows in the >> house are the old original wood framed windows and have storm windows >> installed on the outside. These are these big old windows you dont see in >> houses anymore. Wife says they all need to be replaced but I told her these >> unlike new windows can be repaired, or so I think. Just need to to have all >> the old paint scraped out, rem ove the old putty that holds the glass in and replace. No they are probably not as efficient as new windows. On one side of the house they have 2 or 3 huge concrete pillars/supports of some sort which butt up against the foundation, almost sort of like buttresses on a cathedral. The only thing I can figure is the foundation started pushing out like it does on old houses and these were installed to hold it in. I have seen other old houses where they have drilled holes in the header plate or foundation with cables stretched across from one side of the house to the other attached to metal plates on the outside of the house which can then be tightened as needed to adjust the foundation. The other side of the house looks like its going to need attention as there is a section above the concrete/brick foundation that is starting to move out. Obviously will need a lot of cosmetics as well. Since its a forclosure in need of a lot of work I thought about offering no more than $15k, and turning it into a long term project. >> Crazy probably but interesting yes. >> >> https://www.zillow.com/homes/350-s-cedar-nowata-ok_rb/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________ > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
