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For your interest, here’s a glimpse of the standard of house construction around here in the 1840s. Yesterday, I got the shingles stripped off the right side up to a level line above where a porch roof had been removed and some “temporary” Tyvek installed.
Getting ready to get it re-shingled at last.
It was -8C here this morning, so I keep finding jobs that need doing in the shop🙄
 

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Peter Rideout said:
For your interest, here’s a glimpse of the standard of house construction around here in the 1840s
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It would sure be interesting to have seen the old vertical mill those boards came out of!!

It's interesting how well they've held up with the tar paper and shingles over them as well. Have you found any spots that didn't look so good?
 
We have kind of a tongue and grove lap siding on our exterior, under the newer vinyl siding. The interior walls have a pine plank similar to that. Much of it has a layer or three of wall paper, then some thinner drywall over that or paneling.

I have yet to open any of the walls to see what the stud spacing is, but suspect it’s not standard stud spacing. I somewhat worry I’ll be removing some of the structure of the house if I remove that interior planking to replace with drywall.

Our floor joists are around 28” spacing, 2X8, but rough sawn oak.
 
Darren Wright said:
I somewhat worry I’ll be removing some of the structure of the house if I remove that interior planking to replace with drywall.
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Yeah I'd be tempted to use furring strips and put the drywall over that although you'll loose some space... removing them does seem perhaps a touch risky from a shear strength perspective.

One old building down the road a bit doesn't even really have proper studs in parts, it's just lapped 1xN's (variable width as they came off of the mill) nailed together from each direction to make a (admittedly VERY) solid 2x wall. There's some other uprights on the corners but the main wall is just upright lapped 1x's.
 
The home that I'm in now was built in the early 1950's. Although the studs seem to be on 16" centers, the framing on either side of every door and corner is a 4 X 6". I had wondered why the light switches were so far from the doorways until I had a bathroom replaced and got to see inside the walls. My son's house, across town from mine, has the 4 X 6" corners, but the wall studs are on roughly 20" centers. He is totally rebuilding the inside of his house, so many new pieces of wood have been used in the walls. There wasn't much building-to-code around here until about 1980, so any home older than that is full of surprises. He discovered that the crawl space walls were only 1 brick thick too, and no footings. Evidently the house had no foundation to start with and it just sat on posts. Then they closed it in later, making it look like it had a full brick foundation.

He got the land with the house and metal 40 X 60' shop for about the value of the land. I had told him to push the house down and start over, but he insisted on remodeling it. He is paying for the rest in labor and replacement costs now.

Charley
 
 
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