100 Year Old House in Perfect Shape - Here’s Why!

the build show's on the road we are in fort worth and check out this gorgeous house what is up with this house 100 years old uh john staub he's famous architect regional architect just his you'll see i mean the the details inside are incredible there's a hand carved room there's a french room i mean the materials everything else is just a freaking awesome house and the roof i mean it's just there's so many things here chimneys yeah i mean it's an incredible house we're really thankful to be working on it we've learned it a ton now brent and i took a tour of this earlier there's a few lessons from this house this is a well-built house from 100 years ago that we could probably apply to new houses anything brent absolutely there's there's things that uh builders today and this is why i love working on old houses is that you can learn so much by looking at the past i mean the lost art of building is what i'm saying what i say all the time but there's just tons to learn things to learn [Music] all right brent we're in the master bath of this nearly 100 year old house what secrets can this builder from 1920s teach us builders in the modern era well i mean there's a ton of things and so uh you got to remember though that this guy this architect famous regional architect he always specified in his plans like the top stuff okay so what you're seeing here are kind of examples of his better building so this is like lessons from the past from a really good builder okay okay one caveat got it first thing is this okay what is this we're seeing here this is i mean heavy as as anything is that lead and it's lead right what was this used for this was the shower pan okay so our shower was back here never a leak in this in this kit in this bath right this is a you know 100 year old house and this heavy lead was what was the shower pan in here so your guys just took this out of this space yeah just to pull it out of there you also notice the steel okay you don't often times in residential construction see a steel beam in a residential house from this period but this speaks to the kind of the quality and the level of of work that this guy did and they did that maybe so the tile wouldn't crack in that shower pan you think well we're uh we're we're over that living room and so i believe this is that's this is spanning this yes a ton of weight on this area that they wanted to carry all this weight the tile in this space was just tremendous and so i think they had extra weight that they had to carry and you know normally when i see a 100 year old or even a 20 year old bathroom i see a bunch of black stuff happening on the studs these studs look brand new obviously that shower pan did not leak yeah i think that speaks to the lead because in other houses from this period you'd see 10. so 10 obviously was cost more but just didn't cost less cost yeah yeah cost less but it would rust over time right and it did and and those pans failed and so uh you know this is so they spend a lot more stuff on that but a hundred years later it worked isn't that great the takeaway for me as a modern builder is you know when you choose good materials and you get that push back from clients hey i don't want to spend the money on that extra expensive waterproofing system well do you want it to last you want to not have a problem for the next 100 years no doubt when you get the best you want to call me it's worth it five years when there's a leak in your ceiling right and just you know cry once as they say exactly now brent some of these joists that look like they've been hogged out yeah what's happening here so what happens is and this is pretty common in historic houses is that is that the joist the the floor joists is you'll see these marks where they are actually beveling this the top of it the reason they did that is that that they would then you know put in a board here a nailer on the side on the side and then they put in this lowered floorboard okay so this was then floated with mortar okay so that was their screed that was their screen and so then the tile would go right on top of this you notice it's a little bit lower so it'd line up with this finished floor here but this was so you didn't have the expansion as much expansion and contraction in the wood it wouldn't crack the tile it wouldn't go come through this was actually a pretty common building technique in that period now i don't you don't often see them you know hatchet out like this that's what it looks like yeah they used to hatch it or something typically you see them sawn but um but yeah no they that's what they did here and that's how they were able to lower this tile let's say and maybe match up flush with a hardwood floor in the next still get a bed of of mortar that's you know two inches thick which is how they floated out the floor that's wild cool what else you seen in this bathroom well the the the use of lead and lead piping here in in and would have been you so this toilet was over here okay there is a lead pipe in the mortar remember all this is mortar okay so the um this lead pipe here right that runs up this way that's kind of snaking through the wall thinking through that think about how they would have had to do this otherwise where you'd have had a pipe a 90 degree run over and with that lead pipe because it bends they were able to pretty simply just kind of push it over in the wall and then tie it into the and it's just a vent right there's no water running through there how smart is that today we'd have pvc so we can make a few bends no big deal yeah but they use that light that lead to snake it on through just the quality of material in here i mean you see the the the metal lath on the walls and and i mean i was telling you earlier the the thickness of the the mortar and tile on these walls was in some places two and a half inches thick wow so it's just built like a you know brick house here it literally is a brick house oh yeah just about yeah pretty awesome brent let's go outside we got another really cool thing to show these guys yeah awesome meet you out there what's the next takeaway on this house well you may have noticed it when we drove up but the roof okay this is a luduchi tile roof and i mean look at the patina and the things they've worked in this is from the factory this hasn't denigrated right so this is what i drew up i could have i would have bet money that this was a sea a cedar shake roof maybe from the street it looks like an old cedar shell area right and so then you get them up close and you realize what they've done here and ludawig is 130 old company they are you know they're in ohio i think right in ohio yeah and they have mastered the art of of clay tile and so these are actually clay in the back you can see it looks like regular clay it's all clay tile there's like a one percent you know moisture retention is so it's very dry material but they pride themselves on being able to match and you see the amount of texture in here so this gnarled look here this is straight from the factory this is actually an old tile though right old tile yeah straight from the factory right the new tile from them would look like this too they're making molds of all these because they're clay tiles right and so you think about the number of different molds they've got for all the amount of you know texture they've got in here and they can also color these tiles right if you look at this rib you'll see some oranges and yellows and then and so they can do that all the factory it's a it's a fabulous company they are too you know clay towel we are to woodworking right they just everything's custom it's just anyways it's perfection it's amazing fabulous no this is not an inexpensive roof there if you were to put this roof on a brand new house what do you think i mean this is what well so a lot of money yeah so just a clay tile roof might be two or three hundred thousand but the amount of customization they've got going on in this thing i think this is a half a million dollar roof so maybe two or three thousand dollars per square yes absolutely somewhere in that room absolutely but what's interesting to me as i see these old houses as i go look this house was built in 1928 you don't you're not changing the roof when you remodel this house that's right it's still the original roof that's right you're going to get a few new tiles for this small port of cashier edition you're doing right but otherwise the original tiles are still doing their duty isn't that crazy yeah it's awesome the uh it's a fabulous riff it's something people need to know more about for sure guys if you're not familiar with brent hall amazing craftsman who builds new houses that look like old houses and takes these hundred year old beauties and brings them back to their original luster again i'm so glad to be your friend brent you do amazing work yeah follow brad on instagram and go check out his videos on buildshownetwork.com he's shooting videos every week at his job sites like this gorgeous house and showing us the craftsmanship of the old builders and how to do it right in new builds so fun to follow your videos man i'm such a fanboy of your work go to buildshownetwork.com hit that subscribe button we've got new content here on the build show every tuesday and every friday follow me on twitter instagram otherwise we'll see you next time on the build show [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 9min 14sec (554 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 27 2021