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Definitely. For the UK, anyway. Single skin brick walls, shallow foundations, and shonky roof construction? Hardly a paragon of virtue.
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Single skin brick walls, shallow foundations, and shonky roof construction?
Is it part of a wider trend towards easily removable or renovate-able buildings, to suit changing needs and fashions?
A previous flat of mine was built in the Victorian era in a prime London location, and didn’t have a 90 degree angle anywhere. It would still be a right pain to tear down, I expect.
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We got offer accepted on a 1951-1953 house so avoiding that problem :p
To be honest, I don't know much about houses, but our land lord (ex architect now retired) AND the finance advisor both went on a "naaah new houses...not the same" mini rant.
Lived in an ex council house, supposedly good quality in Norn Ire as they NIHE housing exec is pretty strict.
The new houses going up nearby, mwah... small for the £. Normal wooden beam roof though, I guess they are ok.
Another place nearby the LL said "wow with those steel beams as a frame it'll last 150 years" breeze blocks then single wall brick.
But my old place has a lot of bog land nearby...some new houses there have wall cracks.
No patience for the building company anyway, they pretend built social housing...except £900 co-owning/140 thousand+ builds is not social housing in NI!!!!
The local community group got screwed by them as the land was sold cheaper based on adding social houses, clearly the builder expected them not to fully understand the fine print.
Assholes. Won't ever buy from them.
/rant :)
Eseman
JWestland
"Houses used to be built better in the past"
Find myself agreeing with this... another middle age thing? ;)