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bruno is probably right


Posted by guest on July 6th, 2009 10:10 PM
In reply to There is also one other thing to consider. A house that old is by Bruno1949 on June 30th, 2009 02:18 PM [Go to top of thread]

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> Jumping to Confusions by homebild on 06/28/2009

it's probably balloon framed.

And if it's that old, be careful with the black dust. You very well might have vermiculite insulation. there was a manufacturer in the early 1900's that got their vermiculite from ( I think ) it was tennessee, and it had a bunch of asbestos in it.

The stuff tends to crumble and fall apart over time. It looks like small brown globs in the joists, or even like brown packing peanuts. The tainted vermiculite only came from a very few sources though.

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