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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We lived in a house built in 1962 and every contractor/builder that ever came to do any work remarked on how solid the construction was.  Also cinder block like a PP.[/quote]

+1 home built in 1958 with cinder block[/quote]

+3 - every single contractor.  Cinder block, 1939.[/quote]

Yeah, contractor is not a structural engineer.

But the big bad Wolf did agree that brick and cinderblock was best.

I live in a brick house, but I don’t make up imaginary fantasies of how great it is compared to new homes just to feel better.

And seriously how often is a house falling over anyways? Lead paint asbestos bad plumbing all seem like worse realities.[/quote]

Well you seem to be very upset and are not making much sense.  Reporting what experts have told me is not making up "imaginary fantasies."  We have had a structural engineer out (wanted to reconfigure the ground floor to open up the kitchen - turned out not to really be an option due to the cost to move a furnace stack) and he was equally complementary.  But sorry you hate your house and don't understand the difference between brick and cinder block.[/quote]

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