Posted by NCWayne on July 26, 2015 at 20:31:04 from (173.188.169.54):
In Reply to: Old Houses OT posted by John B. on July 26, 2015 at 19:51:42:
Look through the house really good before you do anything drastic. In my Grandma's house I found one wall of the living room was made of tongue and groove pine boards that had been paneled over. I found out later that the back part of the house was added on, and the boards were originally on the outside of the house.
In my Aunt and Uncle's house we thought we had found everything, until the local VFD burned it for practice. Turns out the carpet in their living room had been laid over multiple layers of old news papers to serve as padding. Most of the papers dated from the mid 50's to the mid 60's. I think the latest I saw a part of was just after Kennedy was shot. The fire missed about a 10x10 section of the floor, and I was able to save the papers out of that section. There was some really interesting reading, as well as adds, in those sections of paper.
I've known others that do demolition and they always check the walls for hidden money, check under and around the house for dropped coins. Basically anywhere things could be hidden, the old timers were apt to hid something.
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