The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 2 months agoNobody wants to haunt a McMansionlemmy.worldimagemessage-square85fedilinkarrow-up1861arrow-down16
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minus-squareExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up70arrow-down1·2 months agoAll I am seeing here, is the insane yearly cost of recurring maintenance on an old wooden house…*shudders*
minus-squareDontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·2 months agoAs someone with an old wooden house, it’s actually not bad. They’re built so damn well that they just… stay there. The expensive part is if you need to do any renovations. Updating electrical, plumbing, and HVAC sucks.
minus-squareNABDad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoThe looks you get when you tell your contractor you want plaster, not drywall. They had to find a guy who still knew how to do plaster walls when we redid our bathroom. He was well past retirement age.
minus-squareCompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoI put in about 40hrs a year on scraping and painting and the total building envelope is only 160m2, and is much less detailed.
All I am seeing here, is the insane yearly cost of recurring maintenance on an old wooden house…*shudders*
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As someone with an old wooden house, it’s actually not bad. They’re built so damn well that they just… stay there.
The expensive part is if you need to do any renovations. Updating electrical, plumbing, and HVAC sucks.
The looks you get when you tell your contractor you want plaster, not drywall.
They had to find a guy who still knew how to do plaster walls when we redid our bathroom. He was well past retirement age.
I put in about 40hrs a year on scraping and painting and the total building envelope is only 160m2, and is much less detailed.