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<blockquote data-quote="dragoner" data-source="post: 9632878" data-attributes="member: 6943731">I used to make a decent living updating these houses in the San Francisco Bay Area, even got in the newspaper; house lifted and moved a Julia Morgan in Berkeley that had slid 15 feet across the property line. Prairie Schoolhouses with rot in their walls because Frank Lloyd Wright hated exposed gutters. Bought a old craftsman bungalow in Oakland that was virtually untouched, walls of madrone built ins, unpainted. Funny thing about the asbestos remediation, better to leave it in place and seal it with a primer sealer, old knob and tube electrical too, asbestos wrapped wire, actually great for what it was. The real problem were the remodels before the 80's using general breakers that wouldn't trip, and sub 70C romex that would burn them down.I used to like peeling the newspaper wallpaper backing from turn of the century houses and drying them, to read at lunch. Big new houses for 6k, and 20 different makes of automobiles.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dragoner, post: 9632878, member: 6943731"] I used to make a decent living updating these houses in the San Francisco Bay Area, even got in the newspaper; house lifted and moved a Julia Morgan in Berkeley that had slid 15 feet across the property line. Prairie Schoolhouses with rot in their walls because Frank Lloyd Wright hated exposed gutters. Bought a old craftsman bungalow in Oakland that was virtually untouched, walls of madrone built ins, unpainted. Funny thing about the asbestos remediation, better to leave it in place and seal it with a primer sealer, old knob and tube electrical too, asbestos wrapped wire, actually great for what it was. The real problem were the remodels before the 80's using general breakers that wouldn't trip, and sub 70C romex that would burn them down. I used to like peeling the newspaper wallpaper backing from turn of the century houses and drying them, to read at lunch. Big new houses for 6k, and 20 different makes of automobiles. [/QUOTE]

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