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Mike Finley

Here's an advertisement from 1953 for a Liberty home. 3 bedroom with attached garage for $5350.00 (or about what I spent on gas last year)

Pretty cool.

oldfrt

The old Sears home prices on their kits were pretty amazing too.Everything from nails and lumber to tubs and sinks.Sears Homes 1927-1932
The Osborn (Model No. 12050); ($1,163 to $2,753)


The Vallonia (Model Nos. P13049A, P13049B); ($1,465 to $2,

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Mike Finley

Look at that, they double in price every 20 years.

MALCO.New.York

200 - 300 or 2000 - 3000?

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neolitic

I've worked on some of the
Sears Roebuck houses.
Weird having part numbered lumber.

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oldfrt

Makes me wonder how many people they use to employ.
Think of the organization needed to get all those kits together.

Probably could pack a whole house and get it out with all the right pieces before HD could get a correct cabinet order together.

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oldfrt

He has seen it advertised for three years.

Good old nob and tube wiring.Still going strong in some homes.

Must have been the end of the gas light era.

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freemason21

is nob and tube that stuff with the stiff black tubes? if so, i still have some of that crap in my house, my house was built back in 1945.

neolitic

1927, they were using armored cable.

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neolitic

If it's knob and tube,
it was done long before '45.
They even had romex by then.

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TimelessQuality

nob or knob? It's mostly al right?

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neolitic

Who can forget the revolutionary
Lustron Home?

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480sparky

Knob & tube:

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480sparky

No way to tell. Some is still servicable, some have no insulation left on the wire.

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freemason21

thats what mine looks like excepts its in the walls and hooked up to modern light switch. maybe its not it then.

neolitic

Don't doubt it is knob and tube,
just that it's older than '45.
Maybe the house was moved?

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freemason21

then it probably is. all i know is it was a PITA to move. i had to move the light switch over to another stud, and that stuff doesnt bend for sh*t. i took my chisel and went to work for a few minutes, finished and nailed it onto the other stud, i was pretty satisfied. then scratched my head and said to myself "why didnt i just use the sawsall"

480sparky

There's no other wiring method that even remotely resembles K&T.

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HSConstruction

While renovating an old (20's) home we found the bill for the hardwood flooring. It was 1200 sf of hardwood installed for something ridiculous like $300. The going rate for labor must have been cents per hour.

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