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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Damn there's a lot of misinformation on this thread.

A well-built house today is better made than at any time in history. The engineered lumber being used today, like I-joists and sheet goods, is far more uniform than materials that were used in the past. Uniformity means consistency, which means straighter walls and floors.

A floor supported by I-joists and sheathed with Advantech is going to be flatter, stiffer, quieter and able to span greater distances than anything made with natural materials.

Two things are important to energy efficiency: insulation level and air-tightness. Houses today are routinely being built to air-tightness levels that would have been unimaginable even 20 years ago. Compared to code-minimum today houses from most of the 20th century would be considered essentially un-insulated.

Brick is not energy-efficient construction. It has almost no insulating value and is difficult to air seal. [/quote]

I agree with what you are saying about materials, but the quality of work in these mass produced houses is sub par at best.

My house from the 2000s has: bathroom drains sloped the wrong direction, romex wire sandwiched between drywall and studs, electrical connections buried in insulation behind drywall, no junction boxes behind light fixtures (very common), porch constructed of non pressure treated wood (maintenance nightmare), crappy drywall work, etc.

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