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Just moved in to an 80s place yesterday. After 10 years served in Victorian terraces it feels like an absolute revelation. Walls without damp, windows that fit and straight lines everywhere!
Obviously it isn't up to modern specs in terms of efficiency but it feels massively more comfortable to live in just due to the lack of drafts and better layout. No sexy curtain walls though.
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A lot easier to modernise though it depends on the construction, our flat was built by Waites with a concrete deck and reinforced concrete supports, cavity walls and the ties are galvanised along with the windows, a few years earlier and it might be a different story, though when built the brick slips fell off the concrete edges of the floors so one block was rendered and the adhesive changed on latter buildings.
They didn’t scrimp on the concrete (none of that aerated shit) but there are some Waites concrete houses out there where they reskin them and there are even ‘Waites mortgages’ available.
I wouldn’t touch a Victorian property now, they don’t like moisture, the 80’s building I lived in looked like it was thrown up over a weekend.
Big difference is the size of the windows and the amount of light in most modernist post war properties once you update the windows to modern frames/low-e glazing and insulate they are nice places to live in.