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Redcatcher70
Beebe, AR
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We have an older home, built sometime in the 1950's, while remodeling our only bathroom, discovered the wall studs in two of the walls are 2" X 6". Not just regular 2X6's, rough cut oak 2X6's and hard as bedrock. I think this old house would survive an atomic bomb.....
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monkey44
Cape Cod, MA and Central Fla
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We've done a few older home renovations - one built in the thirties ... on occasion, we had to drill and screw the studs they were so dry and compressed - as you said, hard as a rock.
One thing about that old, dry wood - it's definitely bug free. Not even termites can get their teeth in it.
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BCSnob
Middletown, MD
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I understand your issues with the old growth rough sawn lumber.
We hope to be remodeling our only full bath this year in our 1820 home. I think the bath was added when the addition was put on in 1905. The bath took over an exterior 2nd floor closet (close up the exterior door to the porch and add interior doors through the wall). Our challenge is the bath cannot be easily enlarged since it is bounded on 3 sides by structural solid brick walls (3 course thick). The one hollow wall is plaster and lath on red oak rough sawn 2x4s. The floor is narrow oak plank (the heart pine had been replaced) directly on the rough sawn red oak 2x6 joists (24" spacing).
House construction and the materials used sure have changed.
I'm glad to not be remodeling the original dwelling on our farm: ~1800 1st floor stacked stone, 2nd floor log home.
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Dutch_12078
Winters south, summers north
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Our Adirondack lakeside cottage's core structure is framed with telephone pole cross arms from the 1940's. Yep, screw holes must be pre-drilled. Tying in some of our new construction when we remodeled took some ingenuity to get sizes to line up.
Dutch
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ken56
Tennessee
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I owned a house built in 1877 and it was all Fir true dimension lumber, 2x4, 2x6, and every roof member was straight as an arrow in line. I had more issues with the stone foundation than with the building itself. Pretty amazing. they don't make'em like they used to.
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ken56
Tennessee
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I owned a house built in 1877 and it was all Fir true dimension lumber, 2x4, 2x6, and every roof member was straight as an arrow in line. I had more issues with the stone foundation than with the building itself. Pretty amazing. they don't make'em like they used to.
Sorry for the double/triple post. Moderator please delete.
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