Building A House (2nd, 1962)
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- Shows the main stages in building a house. Points out the importance of each workman's special skill in following the architect's plans.
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Thank-you to the tradesmen of our world, you guys are probably here and never get enough recognition for the hard work you put into each day yet without you most of the world couldn't do their jobs, so thank-you :)
Thanks, mate. I'll lay the conduit extra nice next time you're renovating.
gracias senor.,
Thanks bro
Back when they seal the plumbing with hot lead
@@gorillaplays8926that quality lead and asbestos 👌
Thats for the upload, my old house i grew up in was built i 1956, still standing, but has been changed a lot from previous owners, im 67 now. My dad was a framing carpenter for 25 years, he built our house and 5 others on that street, Salem Oregon all the house's are still there 68 years later.
my uncle was a master carpenter for 40 years and specialized in interior finish work. he wore those same white coveralls every. day. It was his uniform. He taught my brother and his son the trade. Great to see this video. This looks like a typical house in San Jose (the opening credits mentioned that) would be neat to see where this house is
I read somewhere in an old carpenter book a lot of guys wore white coveralls because it separated them from the union and non-union workers.
@@danielmay8827 That makes sense! My uncle was in the union for years until he semi retired and went on his own doing smaller jobs to keep busy. Thanks for the insight
Oh ok no wonder you see Mexicans there 😂
Steht dieses Haus noch? 😊
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An age of professional highly skilled men using hi quality AMERICAN made materials, now we have who ever the contractor can pickup at the Home Depot parking lot for labor and only the finest Chinese materials....
If whites don't like the heat then home depot guys will
@Jason Coughenour we now live in a country that can't even make it's own toilet paper!
@Jason Coughenour That's for sure!
the product of outsourcing everything :)
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High class for sure. Wife cooking in high heels.
just for the show. but after that it's back to bear feet
The Wal-Mart shopper style was not popular then.
@@oneofmany1087 Bare*
sexy
@@nyccollinLooked pretty hairy to me. HaHa 😅
My grandfather in Yugoslavia was a master carpenter. My dad he built their family home from start to finish. Even split the cedar shingles by hand. He said he and his brother had to pull and recycle old nails out of other projects and straighten them out for the dad. Amazing
tHeY dId It AlL wRoNg
Says the people who put together a store bought birdhouse once when they were 14.
No but modern shit just lasts longer and blocks out the elements and rodents better. I’m renovating an original home from the 80s and it’s disgusting for being a 1 mil + home
in the old days Sears sold house kits
Amazing how little the tools and materials have changed. Of course they’ve evolved but they’re very similar still
Nothing has changed. Only thing which has changed is ethnicity
Now it's a jobsite full of Mexicans
Seriously? Id say entirely different
@@xChromerSatanasx so true. God bless the Mexicans!
@@acommentator69 They are entitled to lower wages. It's called a free market and those that cannot compete need to leave the craft and find another line of work.
@@acommentator69 More free than any other market and those that can push down wages are entitled to their just deserts
Now a crack house with 10 cars parked in the front yard.
Lmaooo true
You seemed to have forgotten some broken hot water heaters and a few pit bulls.😂
@@leroybrown9873 you don't heat hot water
@@fnhwk You might need a generator though. And lots of extension chords running all throughout the property. Good for when they shut off your power off (as opposed to paying the utility bill).
Just make sure that generators stolen.
Are you kidding me? It’s in California. Now it’s 1.8 million dollars and flipped “farmhouse style”
Back when you could slam a couple rum and cokes on the job site and come home to a steak dinner times have changed so much
I love these old videos!
Back when there were true craftsmen who had pride in their work. -greatly needed today.
I can tell you that there Are just as many or more to day
i totally disagree im 27 and take great pride in my trade and know many like me!
This house was not a quality built house, not even close
There’s still our plenty of us we’re just getting older. Young people are not coming into the building trades…
@@trainnerd3029 True, everyone wants to go to college wear clean clothes and make big money. Lol. Let the immigrants work in the dirt and hot sun.
Imagine if they had air nailer's.
I was blessed to remodel my entire house with my father in-law. It was an experience of a life time. Seeing that my father passed away when I was 5, and he was a general contractor, the experience with my father in-law was very meaningful. My father in-law's motto was "if an Egyptians can build a pyramid, why can't I build this house myself?" It's been two years since my family and I moved back home. I am so humbled and blessed. God is good! I will share these moments with my kids when they're of age.
Joshua 24:15 KJV
15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. ⚔️💪⚔️💪⚔️💪
New house cost $23,000. His salary was probably $8,000 a year. Must have been nice
i lived this as a kid in the '60s. we moved into a new house in 1968. the house in our backyard was still being constructed. lots of fun playing in the area. many homes only had the foundation poured when we moved in.
I don't know about the other things, but the carpentry work sure does go by a lot faster now with the nail guns and such.
It does, poor planning slows work down but physcially its faster and much much safer
It was a point of pride in your work to be able to sink those 16 penny nails with 1 or two blows of your hammer.
@@dhyde9207Looks fun as a hobby, but full time man did it have to take a toll on your body over the years eventually. I agree though it was a point of pride in your work as a carpenter to sink a 16D nail in with two or three blows only. I hear if the general contractor saw you drive a nail in with more than three wacks, then you'd loose your job back then. I suppose that was more likely the non union carpenters that operated that way?
Young people look so old back in the day.
They look stylish and rich. Not that they are rich but they present themselves very well.
Its called higher testosterone than the average of today. They didn't have the abundant EDC's of today either, many factors we can talk about, high nutrient dense diet, zinc+selenium+copper+magnesium, much more active lifestyle, today's men have to fight more, metaphorically speaking, to keep their testosterone , back then they were in an environment which never hindered their testosterone and overall endocrine health anywhere near as much as it does for one today, if at all.
@@dhuss14 seems quite over complicated, in reality these people are people that are likely older and have been doing this work for a long time, which makes them look the way they do. Ultimately these days if you look at people doing construction you'll see similar features.
also like what the fuck is the second half of this comment?
Hear me out everyone in that era was out building and working in the sun with little to no shade making skin leather like nowadays people barely get sun and we have products that reverse aging
That’s because at this point, they are all old
My parents bought their first home in 1959 for 15 thousand dollars
Sold it in 1968 for 21 thousand
Not even enough for a down payment now
My parents bought theirs in 68 for 19K
Today its worth almost 400K and its still original. crazy
Now with lumber at 110% increase, that would barely pay for the lumber to build an average house now... china kungflu virus(the flu) that has the commys who want world power have out there scaring everybody.
@@bogey19018 yea here in California prices are insane
I bought my house in 1988 for 194 thousand
Now it’s worth over a million
The house my parents bought in San Rafael California in 1959 for 15 thousand is now worth over a million
Ridiculous
Ours is 6 bedroom 4 bath 2 living room, 1 kitchen with dining room, 2 car garage 3 acres commercial/ Residential paid 28,000 in 1940
@@mikeznel6048 Lol! Fake News much? Try Trump's tariffs on Canadian lumber!
Ah America. The good days before the last 60 years .
Very impressive that the hardwood floor guy eyeballs and freehand cuts the boards.
That was a crappy floor. It wasn't even tongue and groove
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Good God... construction sure has changed, for the better and for the worse...
Things I liked about the old-timey way (that we should still do today):
- hand-troweled stucco
- plywood subfloors and roof decking (not OSB)
- wood slats under the roof decking
- real hardwood floors
- real masonry fireplace
Things that made me cringe (and thankfully are built better/ safer now):
- molten lead/ lead wire used as pipe solder
- cast iron drain pipes
- asbestos blanket duct insulation
- tar paper used as house wrap
- was there any form of flashing around windows/ doors? I didn't see any
- hopefully that electrical system was at least grounded if two-pronged receptacles were used
- vinyl asbestos floor tiles
- lead paint
I suspect it was in California, as woven wire ( chicken wire) was not popular in most other places. notice the lath moves too. It was of line wire and paper. Open stud. not done much anymore. I still believe in that method for strength and ability to breath, ( more vapor permeable) .
fuckin OSHA agent
Cast iron is actually a super good quality material for drain piping. We don’t use it because it calls for a ridiculous amount of man hours to pour lead joints for fittings.
No sheathing on the walls, just tar paper over the studs
Ohh good grief. Lovely video and you trolls om 1/3 the comments.
Jerry wonders if his kid would grow up eating paint chips , 2020 :yep
Yeah and air ducts wrapped in asbestos 🤣
@@darianzielinsky96 and molten lead on everything
Real carpenters no guns no drill Just use skills and the brain
So that's how my neighborhood was built in 1950. I'm sure many of you reading this post can say the same. Many many thanks to all you contractors who may be long gone now. You made the "American Dream" possible for so many American families. I loved this video.
1962.
The two boys at the beginning and end bring back memories of when kids were all dressed in the same clothes their parents bought them. There was no choice in clothes back then. Lol
Ya and they vould have fun and communicate by voice. Not like today with that shitly gizmo in their hand....
I remember as a kid watch guys build houses.
@4:08 when my father and grandfather built my future childhood home in The New York suburbs back in 1968, they used brass fitted pipes for the hot and cold mains to the sinks, lead and cast iron drain pipe mains, the electric was bx cable, and the walls were sheetrock. the only sweated copper was for the hot water baseboard heat.
I see women wore high heeled shoes to check out their new homes even way back then.
More than likely on there way back from church in their sunday best, as it was then.
Yea and people dressed nicer to travel on planes and trains too.
People had respect for themselves and for others.
Our ancestors were concerned about their appearance. Especially, when they left home for a simple trip to the store.
I see young men and women go to the store in their pajamas after they have just rolled out of bed after 5:00 pm.
Some appear to have no idea what a hair brush or tooth brush is used for today.
The plumbers were my Family for the last 100 years. I did it all with my family and appreciate seeing this old footage. Thanks!
Where was this filmed in the Bay Area?
I wonder how much asbestos I just watched the duct guy inhale
It’s fiberglass. Not pleasant but safe.
@@woodboybob When I saw that scene, I thought about the poor worker possibly inhaling asbestos. I'm glad to hear it was fiberglass. If that worker was age 25 at the time of this film, he would be 83 today. So he may still be alive and breathing fine.
I'd be more worried about the plumber and the lead fumes.
@@kennethsouthard6042 Lead is still used by any plumber that wishes to use it. That duct tape doesn't look like asbestos to me.
@@917Stefano It was probably asbestos. My house was built in 1964 and the labeling on the insulation proudly proclaims it contains asbestos.
Oakum makes the water tight joint for the plumbing, the lead just holds the oakum in place
And there both not water tight. If was water tight roots would not seek out the water in the line. And seen lots of joints leak when sewer was backed up. Water tight for water passing by only not standing water
@@christopherbonanno1120 it takes decades for those joints to loosen up for roots to get it. Usually from ground settling.
@@christopherbonanno1120 The full proper caulking process with the lead once hardened wasn't shown. If this is all that was done, it wasn't done right.
@@christopherbonanno1120 I’ve been Plumbing for almost 20 years and I’ve seen maybe two Oakum joints leak in my whole career when faced with mainline stoppages. In my experience, roots generally get in where the pipe has rotted, but It took many many years for them to get that way. These pipes did their job for a very long time.
Nowadays osha would show up and fine the roofers 10k for no safety ropes to trip over and fall then the kid would step on a nail and the family sues the contractor for 5 mil.
Did anyone notice the ductwork guy was solidering the joints before he wrapped them? They use duct seal now. ( paste in a bucket)
Yeah im pretty sure that was asbestos he was wrapping them with too.
The asbestos man installs asbestos, everywhere.
my uncle worked for john mansville and was the first one who sued for cancer. He died a painful death. he said that the owner of the company would come in with a different blonde bimbo each week. by the time the lawsuits were piling on, he had pissed away most of the company assets. i hate asbestos
Back when women served some slight purpose
Food, sex and cleaning. Other than that shut your mouth and don't get fat.
And had some type of respect for themselves too. And accepted they are female and didn't cry about what everyone else was doing. Thats why now a days they are so far behind. They waste all their time worrying about what everyone else is doing instead of making a life for themselves. Not all of them, but a great majority of them new generation ones.
@Homeowner Handyman Your right, gotta keep the trades stocked fresh with some fresh backs! I'm glad I'm not the only contractor who watches home-
building filmstrips from days gone by!
@@mikeznel6048 Far behind? 2019: "While women have made up a majority of college-educated adults for roughly four decades, that strength has not always been reflected in the work force... This year's first-quarter findings reported 29.5 million women in the labor force had at minimum a bachelor's degree, compared to 29.3 million men... Women, ages 25 and older, now account for more than half of the college-educated workforce (50.2%) - an 11% increase since 2000."
People say old homes were built better lol, 2x6 floor joist and no sheathing on exterior this home was built cheap
That is technology, they didnt have tyvec until later.
@@michaelmckay I didn’t say nothing about a water screen or air barrier witch is what tyvec is. that’s what purpose the roofing paper was serving they used, I said they didn’t use sheathing witch is the term for osb panels for use on exterior walls. They just went straight over the studs with felt paper then added siding no wall sheathing under it.
@@morehp1 Ahhh Gotcha, there is fuck all for insulation too. This looks like it could also be So Cal Post war housing, build them as fast as you can because they are selling that fast. They cut corners on cement too, tons of sand aggregate, not much cement.
Jerry will be about 70 now 😊
Cool to see. I just finished remodeling my grandpas house built in 55. My mom's house was built in 38 so knowing the original techniques for construction helps a lot.
ARE YOU gonna sell it now
im still finishing remodeling mine built in 1880
1950s lumber was better then today's crap.
No insulation in the floor???? What
I miss lead in my pipes 😢
Where is this house? Be neat to Google Earth it.
Most all of those houses are still there and solid just as the day they were built. Those carpenters back then are amazing at nailing floor joists and walls together. A couple little taps to set the nail and one big hit is all it takes. In the days before air powered nail guns, those guys are pretty quick at framing those walls just as quick or quicker than they do now.
2:06 - It's Mike Holmes!!
I sure wish I had that scissor lift truck
Mr. Johnson probably worked as a cashier somewhere and could still afford this house on his income.
My cohorts... we used to scavenge wood and nails for forts, from the new homes going up in my neighborhood
Stucco... old technology, and causes a host of problems if it isn't sealed correctly
I used to put in wood floors just like this back in the 80's in S.F...
Wow.. really? That's insane. Never seen it done that way
5/16 top nail w a cavanaugh nailer. I've never seen that in the Midwest. I think that's a west coast specialty
@@Me-iw5wo mostly bay area..it started when they were rebuilding S.F. after the 1906 earthquake.
In about 93 I had a guy from that area work for me in illinois. That's the only reason I know about it. That's the first time I've actually seen it being done. Small world
@@Me-iw5wo i don't miss swinging that mallet 5000 times a day!.. those cavenaughs were very temperamental too!
But how bout them kids walking to the park by themselves.
Why does grandpa walk all hunched over?
6:54 wow that truck would be incredibly useful in modern days to any homesteaders.
Back when dimensional lumber was a bit larger than it is today.
Yeah and alot more honest too
Yeah that blew my mind when I found that out, why call it a 2x4 if it isnt haha
Don't go by the notion "things were made better back then"......our house was built 1966 and over the years
you can see where corners were cut.....shoddy workmanship too
Not to mention building practices and materials have improved dramatically
@@Pythonzzz the actual lumber itself may be a different story, with dealing with replanting trees these days its harder to source materials that are the same as they used to be due to time.
Not all old homes were well built, Not all modern homes are well built. Always had and will have a few contractors cutting corners. But it was less complex back then. more standardized and basic. today we have so many, maybe too many options?
The 60s is not far back enough to be considered "built better than now".
Built in 62, the year my dad died, a ww2 soldier.i am a journeyman carpenter.Screwguns came out early 1970's.Carps prob made about $3.00 per hour.
3 bucks an hr that's slavery damn
It’s quite impressive to see how was in past ( construction of a house) and how it is today. I am also a construction worker in framing I’m just 21 years old came from India to Canada here last year. I like this work very much I am learning the work and skill here. However the work today is mostly done by immigrants and don’t done job pridefuly.
Not much different today, just more power tools. The stucco process is exactly the same, that will never change.
We have a spry rig for stucco.....
@@51-FS I’ve used those, it’s a big mess, I’m a stucco guy myself, I prefer the trowel and hawk method in both hardcoat and EIFS application. But that’s about as advanced as it will get, even with the spray you still have to use a trowel.
I am a stucco guy too. Pumps ( gun crews) are for production. plus, open stud with line wire is less common today. We use sheathing more. I too like the hawk and trowel. Ironically, the east coast hates woven wire.. I like it for wood framing.
Main difference in stucco is all the lawsuit’s unfortunately
This is when the house actually lasted 50-100-200 years unlike now. Garbage builders
Hey Michael London knows how to hang drywall 9:10
ya i can see that and he didn't brake the joint strait up the door. he pitcher framed over the door-header
With Brian Dennehy as superintendent, he’d better know!
@@oneofmany1087 no cracks at the corners y’all!!
nah thats eddie munster
I wonder where tat house is the address 🤔 to c it now
Hahahahahahaha
They actually made plywood landing craft boats-in World War II ...and then they burned them on the beach
Yes, and burned the PT boats in the Philippines at the end of the war. Our tax dollars / war bonds at work.
plywood was a national secret when new.
now time for mom to declare she's gay and boot dad out
Brings back memories of my roofing days.
What they would of done for a nail gun !
i got exhausted just watching that.
Funny the house im in right now is 6 bedroom, 2 living rooms 4 bathroom 2 garage . On 3 acres now commercial/residential Built in 1940 my family paid 28,000.
If you plug that into any number of inflation calculators you'll find out that's $598,000
Your family's house was huge most houses were about 951 square feet by 1950
@@bluejayyankeeworkshop5830 the house is on the beach in Gulfport Mississippi, yeah 950 ft.² is probably my living room , I haven’t really measured the house to see what the square footage is. I know it’s frigging huge,
Nice House, Nice Wife!
The wife is like 100 years now
Back when men were men and sheep were scared!
The ultimate american dream!
That skill saw weights 60 pounds.
No... Skill M77 15 pounds...
Maybe. But I bet that it is still working. I have a skilsaw from the 70s and it is still going strong I put a 25 foot heavy duty cord on it I love my cordless tools but you can't beat the torque and on those cold days the metal handle and trigger warms up your hands "the heat is in the tools"
@@Stillnapie this was before the M77, which uses a lot of magnesium and plastic to make the saw lighter. I would guess in the sixties they weighed at least 17 or 18 pounds.
@@janderson8401 The Model 77 uses no magnesium and was introduced in 1937 at about 15 pounds so it was around in the 1960's.... The lighter Mag (red) version is 11.5 pounds and came along about 12 years ago.
The last hurrah before pneumatic nailers and paint guns arrived. Now most crews are battery-powered - no more hoses/cords everywhere...
When a 2×4 was actually 2 × 4
A house like that cost so much money today
Imagine building a house just like this just so the government could see how it would withstand an Atomic blast.
Ahh, the days before DeWalt. These craftsmen could build faster and more accurate than today's generation who uses ALL powertools.
Remember, hand saws, hand-crank drills?
wonder if that house still has that same cedar on it
It’s amazing how people are able to build houses. I feel like if I were to be building a house, I would mess up
It's not that hard. To me finishing is what is difficult. Nobody will see a stud 3/16 off center. But everyone will see that gap in the siding. Unless you're a natural artist painting is also difficult to get right.
Very interesting... today I only see Hispanics building new homes. How times have changed. They work hard though.
The year I was born
If this house was build in Houston, one of three scenarios have taken place to it.: 1 - That neighborhood is now a barrio/the hood, 2 - it may have been flood out and demolished or 3 - its possibly buried under a giant freeway.
It’s clearly a Californian home dude. It’s got siding on the front, stucco on the sides, and a shaker roof. Where else has all those things together? Also just look at the shape and style very 60s north cal. I’m guessing it’s somewhere near San Fran and is like 1.8 million dollars as some flipped “farmhouse” with some tech family in it
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se nice observation, I see that now as well.
plus southern style homes during that era tended to use lap siding with tin/ metal roofing to repel water with cross breeze windows to help cool the house during hot summers.
Most of those home were either demolished for commercial buildings or restored to someone who appreciated the style.
@@TheDigitalslayer I grew up in So Calif and worked construction in those days. while it is probably No Calif, we used of lot of shake roofs in So Cal.
Good to learn that, I am not very familiar with shake roofing, I live in East Texas, the construction style for houses is a bit different. On the older homes, ventilation was emphasized as well as water repelling design, as the weather in our area is different.
The roofing on older homes tended to be made of either tin or corrugated sheet metal.
Today, metal panel roofing is now commonly used as it still helps keep the houses cool and for its durability properties.
As a plumber of over 20+ years ….i tell you what, times have definteley changed……..in the beginning of my career i ran miles on top of miles of sweated copper pipe…..nowadays its all crap plastic pex that any fool can run and dont get me started on pro press copper $15 1/2” fittings😂😂😂😂 yea any fool can be a plumber now …..
Look! They actually used reinforcing wire back then. What'd they think? That it might crack?
The Johnson’s will be pleased to know their $12,000 custom- built home will make their children wealthy when sold at the estate sale in 2024 . . .
Lead sealed pipes ! Not so long ago hand tools were used with skill ,
Lead & oakum joints still set by hand in Chicago for larger buildings. Still code
@@plumbum27 and they still leak.
@@jodyrolandconstruction6577 There is a sealing process that involves caulking the lead both inside and outside. If done right and with care it will last indefinitely; if not it will leak, and this is the case with any method. If replacing a toilet flange on cast iron drain pipe it would simply be foolish and lazy to go to the tightened plastic route as if THAT were better than lead and oakum.
@@VinylToVideo I am familiar with this method. I also know that in America ALL cast iron plumbing that is ran underground will eventually rust, rot, and leak. I have replaced enough of it in the last 26 years to know what I speak of.
@@jodyrolandconstruction6577 So why you complaining if you made a fortune off it? lol
Hmm, lead to seal water pipes? Amazingly cheap and efficient for some reason...
They used Oakm to stuff in joint then lead. Its still used in some small jobs to repair.
I could not imagine cutting wood by hand like that
So the house was built in 11 minutes, is what the video is implying?
Nowadays homes are slapped together with no care for longevity while using shoddy, inferior materials that will deteriorate quickly
Hey ! The super screwed up ?? They installed the roofing material before they finish of all exterior walls , paint etc . Fire that guy .
Retired custom home builder.do it right or don’t do it at all.
2 months of gas and electricity in Canada would pay for that house
Did you see the roofers using cedar shakes? The older guy had a box hanging around his neck. That is a shaker. You put nails in it and shake it until the nails are collated into a line. Then you grab 5 or 6 with your off nail hand fingers and bang away with your hammer or hatchet! It made things easier. In the old days of wood lath and plaster, they used shakers too.
No more Lead paint now! Be careful working on houses built 1978 and before
They just finished tearing down the last remnants of the Allis Chalmers plant that built the dozer here in West Allis Wisconsin
Years ago I asked my grandmother, who was born in 1905, "Do you remember the first car you ever rode in?" She responded, "Oh yeah; it was a 1917 Chalmers!"
Her father bought it new from a salesman for Chalmers who traveled from town to town.
My dad has a Allis Chalmers tractor from 50s or 60s. Still runs good.
Those are the hardest looking dudes I've ever seen. You'd think they fought a war or something.
I was like that kid, 6 years old in 62......wonder where this house is at, i live in San Jose and would like to visit that neighborhood
Seriously?
This house burned down in 1992
@@brainwashingdetergent4128 ....sad!
@@brainwashingdetergent4128 how did you know that?
@@FastTurtl3 I don't know I was joking I think.
Looks a lot different than today’s new home construction site that’s for sure.. and the quality difference too. No craftsmanship anymore
A friend bought a house built in 1949 that was fairly original but well taken care of. Kitchen was redone around the mid-80's. A "charming" house but really was just slapped together during a time of few and lax codes. Let's just say I'm glad they "don't build them like they used to".
True, we love to fetishize the past and believe everything was higher quality but honestly modern building practices are superior. In 100 years they’ll say the same but forever have more evolved understanding of structural and vapor barrier integrity
@@KieC. as a New construction/service plumber for the last 22 years and as a designer today, I’ve seen hundreds of newer homes undergo major repairs within as little as two years due to lack of material and building quality. i’ve never been able to trace these issues on homes that were built in the 40s, 50s, or 60’s… these old homes just don’t have the amenities that people want today, Which is why I do what I do today.
I love these times. I am an old soul at 28. 5 years in army and a veteran now. Raised by my grandparents. I still hold doors for women on dates. All that stuff. I should’ve grown up in these times. I work in cyber security now. But these craftsmen are true craftsmen. We are missing these types of workers now a days
There remain plenty of tradespeople today.
@@billhosko7723I'm saying I work around absolute masters of the trades all day you just have to know a guy
I wonder what that place looks like today? Wooden shingles, masonite siding and stucco. None of that stuff ages well. Looks like the guy was wrapping asbestos around the heating duct also.