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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your quality of life in your townhome depends on your neighbors. in the most recent TH I lived in, while we were doing some renovations we discovered there was no firewall and infact literally nothing separating the homes. Just drywall nailed to the studs on their side and ours. Luckily for us they didn’t smoke or do drugs and were psychos that could cut thru the walls into our house. [/quote]

Wow, that is kind of crazy honestly. I assume this is one of those newer suburban townhouses we see around.[/quote]

In our neighborhood, 1920s built brick rowhouses have joists that overlap with large gaps surrounding them in the brick walls and fire and/or smoke can spread easily through attic crawl spaces and joist gaps. One rowhouse fire displaced families from 5 adjacent rowhouses in part due to the smoke traveling easily. Besides the main rowhouse that was the source of the fire, 2 additional houses had actual fire damage, and the remaining three never actually caught fire, but had soot/smoke damage alone that made the homes uninhabitable until remediated which took 6-9 months w/ insurance, longer for some of the folks with actual fire structure damage.[/quote]

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