Originally Posted by
Mojo31
Old houses are old houses. Waaaay to much maintenance and repairs.
There are SOME things I like about old houses.
The Ancestral Home has thick brick and cinder block walls, rather more outlets than you might expect for being built in 1935, and hot water radiator heat. It's really solidly built, so it doesn't creak like a lot of older houses, and it's quiet despite being on a fairly busy street (a lot of trucks take Rt 234 as a short cut between Rt 34 and US Rt 30). In the winter the house is evenly warm without drafts, and in the summer stays comfortable with a relatively small number of window AC units.
So, old isn't necessarily bad, BUT the house has to have been well built in the first place. A lot of them, the build quality is a lot higher than the dreck that's being thrown together today. But, yeah. A whole lot of old houses are a whole lot of maintenance.