The DU Lounge

Given the cost of houses, one would assume that they were being built to last. Sad to think so many of them are as temporary as a mobile home.

Our house was built in 1922. We’ve been here 2 decades and have had various interior and exterior walls open. It’s always amazing to see the old lumber used, especially the sheathing for the exterior walls and the skip sheathing on the roof.

When we moved in, we knew that the roof only had so many years left. When we had the roof replaced, they took off at least two layers of comp before they ran into the old cedar shingles and then skip sheathing underneath. I think our house got a bit taller after that I mean, we did add plywood on the roof but losing all of those layers had to lighten things up a bit.