Floor plan of the 1900 house.
My 1920s house has a door in the basement floor.
Doing a job where there is a cement floor in the basement of a 1920 s home.
My current house from the mid 1920 s has 2 1 4 quarter sawn white oak floors throughout the house.
Thank you for your article.
Many new homes also utilize these types of drainage systems.
There is a second set of holes about 2 toward the middle exactly the same.
Probably one of my favorite jobs restoring a floor was this 1920s heart pine i came across.
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The landlord is a slumlord who wont fix anything.
She wants tile down here and there are holes drilled in the concrete floor around the perimeter.
In many older homes floor drains are part of the basement design built in to prevent water damage to the house and its contents.
Floor drains are an effective way to remove excess water from a home.
Homes had an area in the pantry or kitchen dedicated to the icebox.
Here s why old homes have a tiny iron door leading to the basement.
The floor is rotting and the foundation has to be repaired which could cost in these homes about 150 000 or so give or take.
A construction crew from 1900 would barely recognize one working on a home in 1999 as the 20th century saw huge changes in the styles of houses and construction methods and regulations.
My sister lived in a 1920 s house that was just full of surprises.
I have an old house and there is water coming up in my basement from a box that has a trap door in the floor that answered by a verified plumber.
Access was created for this door on the exterior allowing for the delivery of fresh ice to the house without coming inside.
She had a milk door there also plus a coal chute so that must have been the service side of the house.
The basement has a floor drain in it.
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The largest room in the 1900 house is more for looking than living.
They have of course been refinished a few times over the years so i don t know what their original finish would have been.
This is an access door the ice delivery man used to use.
Old floor drains work passively their design based on principles of physics.
Well different houses used different flooring materials but i ve lived in two houses from that era.
The drain has a sewer odor coming from it.
There was no place in the tiny kitchen for a refrigerator so it was kept on an enclosed porch outside the side door.
Well i live in a 1920 house in buffalo ny and the kitchen floor is on the downward slope going all the way down.
Here s a peek inside.
The same is almost never true for tile laminate vinyl or even engineered wood floors.
I wish i had the money to fix.
I live in a 1913 row house.
I have yet to come across a solid wood floor that couldn t be repaired.
