On wood frame floors the subflooring provides a continuous structural surface over the floor joists.
Sub floors houses built 80s.
The new houses built after the 50s have drywall veneer hardwood floors cheesy or un original countertops.
Most houses built in the 1970s are still likely to be sound today but there are some maintenance issues that you have to consider if you are buying or selling this type of home.
That made me smile in fact i have never lived in a house with a guarantee all my houses have been elderly i have couple of let s that are also older that the 80s this one would also be to let.
By the time the 1980 s rolled around mobile home builders had been designing homes for over 60 years and every possible layout and design had been tried so mobile homes built in 1985 were kind of boring to be honest.
But the worst thing about new houses is many have composition tile roofs that tar paper crap.
Subflooring is a structural.
These sub floors are strong but lightweight and are employed in houses with stumps and as upper floors in multi storey building.
Most of the houses built in the 1980 s and after have ample insulation.
Please be aware that home inspectors do not report on recalled items.
In basements and in homes with slab on grade foundations the subfloor may simply be a concrete slab.
Even if the 70s was a challenging decade.
There are so many.
Typically a concrete floor slab particleboard to upper floors some insulation when built insulation was required from 1978 stud height was typically 2 4 metres mechanical ventilation sometimes provided in bathrooms or kitchens.
Screw piers or screw piles screw piers offer a quick strong and very effective way to install stumps for a house and can be installed almost anywhere.
Not all houses have these components.
We are the only.
Have always had full structural surveys and will continue to do so.
These are a few of the problems that we commonly find in house built in the 1980 s and 1990 s.