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From a 1920s bungalow or stately three-story Victorian to a rustic stone farmhouse, a lot of us love old houses for their sturdiness, quirky charm and connection to history. And fortunately, there are a lot of venerable old homes still standing all over the world. Nearly 14 percent of the roughly 137 million homes in the U.S. 1940, according to the U.S. Census American Housing Survey. In places such as Somerville, Massachusetts, and Buffalo, New York, more than 60 percent of the housing stock dates back to Franklin D. Roosevelt's second term or earlier. But old houses also have a potentially significant downside, especially for unwary first-time homeowners, in that expensive problems are often tucked away inside the walls or under the floors. We don't mean just the predictable maintenance issues, such as replacing the roof shingles every 20 years or the electric or gas water heater once a decade.


Here's a still-useful 2007 report on the average life expectancy of various home components, from the National Association of Home Builders. While you can't always avoid these problems, it's wise to learn as much as you can about the risks - and possibly even budget for renovations and upgrades to head off trouble before it turns into an emergency. How Old Is Old? How Old Is Old? When it comes to houses, "old" can mean something different in various parts of the country, explains Reuben Saltzman, the owner and president of Structure Tech, a home inspection company in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, area that specializes in older homes. He's also a past regional chapter president of the American Society of Home Inspectors, and a blogger on home maintenance problems for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. In his part of Minnesota, "we have old houses built back in the late 1800s," he explains. Generally, though, the dividing line between old and not-so-old seems to be the mid-20th century. This ​data was do ne with the  help ᠎of G​SA Con te᠎nt Gen᠎erator Demov ersi​on .


To the contrary, houses built 80 or naked girls. 100 years ago or longer actually tend to be more sturdily constructed than ones built more recently, according to Saltzman. Older houses' relative draftiness - which can lead to hefty utility bills - also helps explain their longevity. But other components of old houses often simply wear out after many years of use or are no longer acceptable by today's safety standards. That problem is visible from the outside during a routine house inspection before a sale closing, but what's going on inside the chimney may be just as problematic. The interior lining may have deteriorated as well, and the vast majority of old chimney interiors don't meet modern safety requirements, if you're going to use a home's fireplace or fireplaces. Detecting problems inside a chimney requires what's known as a level 2 inspection, in which a fiber-optic camera is run down through the structure. Fixing a chimney can cost you as little as $1,000, if all you need are some external repairs, Saltzman says.


But if the chimney is really crumbling, make money you may have to rebuild it - a project that can cost $20,000 for an outside chimney on a three-story home. A caveat: Actual prices across the nation, of course, will vary. Digging out a decrepit pipe that dates back to Prohibition and replacing it with a modern pipe can cost several thousand dollars. However, naked girls. in every old home, somebody has probably messed with it and sex tried to use today's wiring methods with the knob and tube wiring. Inept amateurs also can push the wiring beyond its limit. Saltzman says. "Those fixtures are rated for 194 degrees F (90 degrees C), but the knob and tube wiring was rated for only 140 degrees F (60 degrees C)." A professional electrician, in contrast, would splice the old wiring into a junction box, and then bring new wiring to the fixture so it wouldn't exceed the old wiring's capacity.

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