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Your Home In 200 Years Time?

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Prudie | 18:58 Sun 14th Feb 2021 | ChatterBank
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Watching things like restoration home has often made me think about my own home (which is about 25 years old) and whether it would still be standing in 200 years time. Ignoring an apocalyptic event would you expect your home to be of such a build quality that it will still be standing in 200 years time?
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What a good question, Prudie. As always, the answer is............ "it depends" Theoretically... Atheist is quite right. Modern building regs and standards are very good. Way above historic methods of construction. If... Standards and regs are fully adhered to. Good quality materials are used. Site labour is properly paid, and not offered a pittance to...
13:59 Mon 15th Feb 2021
My house is about 35 years old. We are on the side of a valley. It has already been partly rebuilt as the dining room extension/conservatory started to move. All the windows and doors twisted, gaps appeared along skirting boards. Son in law had to completely demolish it. He found all foundations had vanished and if left half the house would go down the hill. He did a wonderful job on rebuilding it.
In my teens I lived in a property that was built in 1615....it is still standing! It was well built ! I currently live in a house built 121 years ago...it is still fine (except for a crack in the attic from distant bombs exploding in WW2) I am not sure about the solidity of property built over the last 20 years.....but one of those would not be my choice of a home because I do like an older home.
1876 cottage named seaview. Well that’s long gone no sea view at all now. If it wasn’t for the houses in between.
altho the glasgow slums were old 16C properties let go,
some of the city slums were built er as slums
which I have always wondered about. - see Engels condition of the working class 1844.

(Bournevee showed that if workers accommodation was OK then productivity went up)

My fathers georgian villa 1820 has easily lasted 200 y ( wh was odd as that was the figure he was quoted - in 1962!)

200y = a very long time
mine was built in the 1950's so maybe... its a very solid building, so one would hope it would stand the test of time.
What a good question, Prudie.
As always, the answer is............ "it depends"

Theoretically... Atheist is quite right. Modern building regs and standards are very good. Way above historic methods of construction.

If...
Standards and regs are fully adhered to.
Good quality materials are used.
Site labour is properly paid, and not offered a pittance to undertake complex, time-consuming tasks which all too often result in hurried, below quality work.
Above all.. with good supervision from site agents and foremen (more often than not, the weakest link in the chain.)

That's a lot of "ifs", isn't it?
So, in theory, a modern building should last. As with everything, the wildcard is human nature, and you know how unpredictable that is.

I live in a house I built myself. I'm confident. Bur I'll let you know in a couple of hundred years from now ;o)

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