This House Will Last Forever, Heres Why
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:Exploring Abandoned Anything can be dangerous or Deadly without experience. I don't encourage anyone to enter any Abandoned structure. Not only is safety a concern, but often times its illegal and when possible, i seek out permission from the owner or local police. I simply go to document its history before it's gone forever and leave things the way I find them. I only take pictures and only leave footprints. I assume all the risks & responsibility before doing this. Please don't attempt to do this on your own. Their could be nails, Asbestos, Falling concrete soft floors, animals or other hazards. Thanks for Watching
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That house has been a abandoned since about 1976. I remember the last family that lived there. There used to be a shallow well with a hand pump next to that old shed you were looking at.
No way Jose
Absolutely amazing. I was wondering how long it's been abandoned. You just can feel the history of the house. It was definitely loved when it was originally lived in.
Thanks. Some invent a help on oh where on map is this
@@KTurner-ny3orAnother commenter said the tunnel he went through was the kittaninny mountain tunnel in spring run, pa
Don’t you just love his passion for doing good deeds and his passion for life in general?!
You can easily detect it in his voice.
I know right? He’s so full of genuine interest and zest for life!
OH LOOK AN OLD FARMERS SINK!
i wish i still has this kind of joi de vie :)
Love it and I think this is why post10 has a lot of followers and people (including myself) love him.
Yes
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You still have childlike enthusiasm. You just allowed the world to make you lock it away. Never lose that enthusiasm, as that adds to your happiness.
It's so sad to see beautiful old houses like this become delapated. Multiple people probably lived in that house their entire life. People fell in love,had children and laughed and lived and died in houses like these.
In Japan it is believed that if an object is over 100 years old then it has a soul and I believe these buildings do in a way. If that house could talk I'll bet it would have a great story to tell.
so in japan a person's body doesn't get a soul until they are 100?
The ghosts tell the story in houses that old. The house can't talk. 😂
I lived in suburban Japan where a new neighbor moved in next door and he decided to tore the house down (which took 2 weeks) and have it rebuilt (in 3 weeks) with close to zero noise. Those houses aren't meant to last more than 30 years...
It is pretty cool to see old houses and try to imagine how they looked back then.
Houses do absorb feelings and emotions. My one grandparents house I could feel something bad or evil in it when I was younger. I never really liked staying inside real long.
I believe it was built in 50s or so. Had curved doorways. Pretty cool, but very uneasy feeling being inside.
You can tell alot about a house, by the way it feels to be inside. Im sure the walls would have many stories to tell if they could talk.
Unfortunately it's right by a really busy highway and moving a brick structure, especially one with lath and plaster interiors is too expensive to be worth the effort unless it's just going across the road (or your last name is Bezos).
its weird to see someone so excited about a brick house. but very endearing. i guess anything you are not exposed to on a daily basis is interesting. I find all the wooden hosues you go into very interesting. My house in the UK is 2 feet thick limestone cottage. and there are probably 5000 of these houses in my home town. i love the videos mate, i am obsessed with your channel. love your passion. love your videos, keep it up.
I know right,
He must have bin living in a closet most of his life
@Mad Dog bin ♻️
Wood was cheaper here in the US and only the wealthy could afford brick. It was often used as ballast in ships coming from the UK, thenmade into courthouses and other government buildings. Think Williamsburg and Boston. I think it was built about 1850-1875
That was the Kittatinny Mountain tunnel
And Blue Mountain, then Tuscarora Mt
Looks like that house was probably well away from the highway until it was widened. So many lives are changed so that ‘progress’ can be made . Somebody probably had a great life there until some official signed some paperwork.
Thank you Post. Very interesting old home. Probably back in the day, dirt road for their horse and buggy. Progress, sometimes I wonder. Take care and wasn't afraid for you going upstairs in that home.
I know that road was still dirt in 1951. I remember seeing pictures when my mother was little. I’d say it was probably paved in the late 50’s.
Right. It's some b.s.
The discoloration pattern of the bricks on the front of the house indicates that the front porch was covered.
get a parking space fixed up there and i guarantee you would find some takers for sale or rental if you fixed it as long as there's some jobs nearby
have propane tanks on my house but they've got little shed
I like how you get excited over what we take for granted in Scotland, a brick house. Its very rarely we have wooden houses except we now have log cabins but, they`re mainly rented out for tourists in National Parks. The house i now live in is over 100 years old, with 3` thick stone walls. Commom place here with a fireplace and what would have been a range in the kitchen - bricked up now as we all have gas central heating.
That building looks like it would have been a semi detached at one time too.
It varies in the United States. I grew up in New England where brick houses were a somewhat unique thing to see. It is almost the complete opposite in Indianapolis where I currently live. Modern houses tend to have more wood, but they still have some amount of brick in the construction. It probably mattered what materials were available in a region. This region had huge brick manufacturers. New England had a huge logging industry.
That is 3 feet stone walls
@@juliesnook6998 That`s what i said - 3` stone walls.
my house has a real brick foundation
there's a load of brick buildings a couple towns over
@@phantomaviator1318 I`ve lived in places where its been 1 row of facing bricks, a cavity wall then 1 row of breeze blocks then plasterboard on the inside - i could hear my neighbour cutting their toenails and farting and her husband was just as bad.
With most UK houses brick built, it depends on the age to whether the brick walls are solid or have cavities for insulation. Electrics are often laid in channeled out brickwork than plastered over or in newer properties in the stud work with plaster board(Sheetrock). Likewise heating water pipes that feed radiators.
In the Netherlands we use also use bricks, and concrete
It's still nice seeing people get excited by things we take for granted!
Often the cavity in older Uk houses was put there to prevent the moisture from the outer wall penetrating through to the inside. Instead it would drip down the inside if the outer wall into the ground. When people try to inject insulation into the void it allows moisture to cross over and penetrate the inner wall .
@@Mike-tv9rk Yeah, that's true. Depends how they were made. We have some called Marsh cottages near us that were engineered that way cause they knew they were prone to damp
@@Mike-tv9rk unless you use polystyrene balls which allow it to breathe.
These were 2 semi detached cottages once upon a long time ago. From the size of the windows, 19th century is more likely than earlier. The walls are solid, American bond, which is 5 rows of stretchers followed by 1 row of headers, which are the same bricks but the ends showing on the outside. This makes the wall quite strong, but not as strong as Flemish bond. If you double or triple glazed this house, the road wouldn’t be a problem, except when you’re in the yard, of course… it will only last forever if you can keep water out, water will erode the mortar and the bricks, but as it seems to have a new roof, you could be right about it remaining standing for a very long time!
It had even hooden roof or entrance on the porch. You can see the markings in the entrance wall. Very much a like a british teahouse.
@@The_Cat_Authority No it seams to be Teahouse or Pub. In the living room tea and liquor, cake and so would be severed. And so the house had a private and business door.
into the 20th century there weren’t separate kitchens in small cottages and definitely no bathrooms. There are still 2 front doors though and 2 back doors. They would have had an outhouse. So 1 room downstairs and 1 upstairs each. Probably for people working in a big house nearby. I lived in a now 320 year old house (in the UK), that originally had 5 bedrooms, but before we had it, 1 bedroom was split in 2 to provide a master en-suite and a bathroom for the other bedrooms. When we took the plaster off one of the walls we found that there had been another staircase in the kitchen, which had an enormous fireplace. Old houses get modified to suit how people live and that’s what has happened here too. Thankfully I have downsized as these old houses need a lot of looking after and I now live in a house that is only about 100 years old, which is considered practically new here, the houses across the road are from 1652 and 1634 and there are quite a few like that here, but they all have bathrooms and kitchens now!
What the hell is a “British teahouse”?
@@billiamtaylor3509 Watch "Turn" Washington spies - in the Wild West American got Saloons - on the East coast Pubs and Inns like in England. For more female costumers more little teahouses.
The best opportunity for the house is to turn it into a roadside shop of some kind. That way it pays for itself. I wouldn't expect a ton of traffic tot he store, but there is probably enough for a modest income if it's done right. It could be restored to a non-residence to display some of its antique glory and used as an outlet for local crafts and posting site for nearby craft fairs. If there were enough room behind, then the owner could even place a home back there and tend the store from there. If the zoning works and there were enough land, the area could be developed into a craft sales attraction to bring in people who want to see cool stuff in cool stores that they would never find on Amazon featuring the old brick building near the entrance. Just some ideas.
Not enough parking space think its a highway. It looks like it's worthless because of the road
When you walk out the front door and immediately look for oncoming traffic.
It's like living in the city
so they have traffic cones
I have a road going straight through my farm, the road is literally one foot away from my doorstep. That's kinda dangerous, and i can easily move he road behind my farm. But the government here in Norway can't afford it. So i'm going to have to live with it.
@@HorizonFarming Move the front door round to the back!🤔
@@marionmclean3749 well then it would be a back door???
Urban exploring is still booming in 🇬🇧 with plenty of people exploring some lovely properly old (150/200 yrs) properties. @Post and @Ghost would have a great time! You guys are always welcome over here
Yes, I watch several from the U.K. like Exploring with Fighters and Adam Mark Explores. In the U.S. Exploring with Kappy only explores old homes around 100-200 years old. It’s cool seeing the old stone work in the basement and rough tree lumber beams. Old hardware on the doors from late 1700s-mid 1800s.
Almost nothing is abandoned over here unfortunately
At one time we lived in a converted old brick one room school house conversion. It walls were solid brick, 3 bricks think. originally 13 foot ceiling. My father and grandfather raised the floors 3 feet so it now had 10 foot ceilings. The windows started at the floor level and went up to 10 feet. A story that was told about one of my ancestors house was an important meeting and dinner was going on. The boys were upstairs listing through the vent whole when marbles droped from his pocket, fell through that vent and landed Plop, Plop, Plop into the mash potatoes.
The house has a fireplace with holes in the chimney. Now looking at the history of heating a home, we start with the fireplace. You need a good up draft to take the smoke up and out of the home so you install a chimney. However there are factors that affect the up draft such as the air pressure inside the house vs the air pressure outside of the house.. If it is warmer in the house than outside the warmer air will rise. If it is warmer outside than inside the house, the chimney will have a down draft. If the wind is blowing outside, it will also come down the chimney. Helicopter pilots must train for mountain flying because of the infamous down drafts on the lee side of the mountain from the wind. This also happens with hills. I don't know if this applies to the house in the vid but it might. Anyway fireplaces are drafty, sometimes the down draft is unbearable or bad enough that you can't get a fire going but that is rare. However, during the winter that can be life threatening, depending on the temp outside. As time went on metal wood stoves became more and more available and began to replace drafty fireplaces. People gladly plugged up their fireplaces and knocked holes in the chimney to accommodate stove pipes (used to vent a wood stove through the chimney). If enough heat didn't migrate to the upstairs, another hole would be made in the upstairs level of the chimney for another wood stove and stove pipe. Some of the old chimneys have dampers built into them to control the down draft and some people put a damper in the stove pipe just above the stove for the same reason. It just makes life easier.
Bricks last a long time but the mortar that glues them together does not. You still need to look after a brick building.
Electrics are done by cutting channels into the brick.
The black marks on the front suggest there was once a canopy or porch. That would make a fabulous house if renovated back the way it was originally.
yup. when we demolished our old kitchen to build a wing for my son, the bricks just fell apart from each other - you could lift each one off without any effort.
@@dderbydave That means the bricks were too dry when the house was build. They dehydrate the mortar too fast and there is a thin layer of powder instead of binding together.
@@dutchman7623 traditionally in britain, autumn to early winter is time for groundwork, drainage and foundations. during winter, the concrete cures and we can see if the drainage needs extra work. spring is time to build the structure. early summer is time to roove, fit and finish.... and sell.
this way, the different materials are used at the right time.
Depends on what they used for mortar,before 1902 they were random mixes with varying quality.Winters are harsh in New England and I looked at a chimney I did about 25 years ago and theres no signs of joint wear yet
All the wood would need to be replaced. I'm sure this house isn't up to modern building codes.
19:52 There's a third maintenance tunnel in between the two main tunnels. If there'd be a fire in the tunnel, you can escape into them. If they're anything like the Channel Tunnel, the maintenance tunnel has a higher air pressure, so when you open the doors, smoke and fumes can't get in, and you'll be safe in there.
Years ago I was walking around in Brooklyn and saw a strange building that looked like a cathedral, but the windows were all filled in with louvers. I was told that it only existed to force air into the battery tunnel so those driving through wouldn't suffocate.
Good to know. Thanks for the info.
I don"t really enjoy driving through those tunnels and its nice to know someone tried to make them as safe as possible.
The concrete tank is a cistern. They weren't too picky back in the day with water.
They used the gutters to collect the water to a downspout into the cistern.
They conserved the water like crazy in the summer especially.
Nothing wrong with this kind of water for the garden, the animals, washing clothes, etc.
They probably boiled it for drinking. I would
Back in the day Christ my home in Kentucky still has a cistern we have bottled water to drink but I shower and everything else is ran off our cistern
@@minorclips7541 do you live on a large piece of land? Several acres ?
I'm sure there was a sand and brick filtering system.
This is the most Fall Out 4-like abandoned building I have ever seen, every scene has the exact kind of random items you can use for scavenge in that game, rubber, plastic cones, wood bits, metal, old food items , tin cans, it's amazing
It is evident that someone started renovating that house and then stopped for some reason; notice several of the windows are new as well as two of the doors and the electrical work seen. Possibly bit off more than they could chew as it would be quite a challenge to bring that structure up to code. The big thing in the basement with the large hole in it looks to be a cistern where water from the roof would be collected via those now rusted out iron pipes. This was a typical water system in the good ol' days. Brick houses are not as wonderful as you think because they are hard to heat with any system and have a tendency to leak air right through the walls - even with the window openings filled.
I assumed the area was Pennsylvania by the looks of the house and land. I have an old German brick house that has similar characteristics, but not as refined as this one. My house was built in 1845 by a German religious group originally from Harmony Pennsylvania. Thanks for the tour. I am always interested in old architecture, especially brick structures.
John
Bethel, Missouri
Yeah it looks like it could be Pennsylvania or somewhere close by. I grew up not far from Harmony.
The two downspouts coming together fed in the concrete box. It’s called a cistern, they are very common from pa to va. The rainfall would supplement the cistern and they most likely had water delivered on a regular basis to fill the cistern. Greats videos!!
This. My grandparents had one in the basement of their c. 1900 house. When I was little I thought fish lived in it lol.
There’s some really interesting history behind the usage of bricks. For the longest time they couldn’t be mass produced, but once they figured out how, they took off as a far cheaper alternative to the more tradition cut stone bricks in Britain. The aristocracy also liked them because they were new and looked unique. However, the novelty wore off, and for a while it seemed everyone despised brick houses, and they started figuring out how to make them look like old houses or similar again, using facades. There’s a really good book on this kind of stuff called At Home by Bill Bryson. Well worth a read.
I appreciate your enthusiasm for these old places :) I love seeing quality construction that will last hundreds if not thousands of years.
My parents purchased their house in 1964 in Conley/Clayton County, Georgia. It was all brick with the exception of the car port, which was wood siding. They later had aluminum siding installed to the wood siding to protect it. There was a utility room attached to the car port with washer/dryer hookups & the hot water heater. All of the houses in their neighborhood were built using the same materials & the neighborhood was located on a dead end street. Fifty-seven years later, all of the houses are still standing & in good shape with a few having addtitions. None of the houses have ever been vacant very long. Several of the houses are now owned by the children & grandchildren of the original owners, which gives them some continuity. My mother is still living in her house & at 97 she is the oldest of the original owners. My sister is living with her now, as our mother has dementia. Our house had 3 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, living room & kitchen with dining room & 1600 square feet of living space. The asking price was $15,000! Now the selling price ranges from $100,000 to 120,000!
I'm from Georgia. Grew up towards Stone Mountain. Is your mom's house close to the airport? Yes I bet it's worth more now. I bet our houses look very similar with gerber fixtures lol
I'm sorry I misread selling price. Forgive me
What a wonderful story.
I live just north of Atlanta and so glad your mom is still alive and the children and grandchildren are keeping those houses alive.
I've been to Clayton Georgia many times - beautiful country up there, but as I now live in Texas I miss the weekend trips I made in that area.
I grew up in Riverdale and have been inside a house in Conley. I knew it was very old. Neat area!
Old brick buildings are awesome. Currently, I'm creating my lasting legacy by completely remodeling an old brick armory that is almost unchanged from when it was built in 1910. It had been used for storage for 50+ years, and I'm turning it into a community center with an audiophile auditorium.
That's really interesting. You should make a vlog or update what you get done. I bet it would do well
Excellent!
Suuuure you are. 😆
I lived in Pa most of my 70 years. Traveled through these same tunnels. Those doors are fir maintenance crews to walk along the sides checking for any damage or water seepage and to fix the tiles. I have seen them come out those doors. You can enter that maintenance tunnel from the outside where the tunnel starts on either side of the mountain
Thanks for this video
You should explore Bucks County where I used to live. Stone houses from the 1700s. Lots of history there.
Oh cool I was trying to figure out what state he’s in I thought maybe PA. Where in PA is this? Born & raised here myself… Brick isn’t that rare though?
When I was working in Ofallon MO, there was an old farm house near the intersection of N Main St and Hwy 79. It was built in the 1880s and it was made of wood with a metal roof and brick chimney. Last time someone lived in it was 2005 so it was in pretty poor condition but it goes to show that wood homes can last forever as well If they are taken care of. It had a huge old stone well about 20 ft from the house as well the was super deep and just had a piece of plywood over the top. The house was relatively large as well for that time, about 1500 sqft. Sadly someone burnt it down early last year. I know it was arson because they had upgraded to a natural gas service in the early 2000s but the sevice was abandoned two weeks before the house burnt down and the electric service had been cut off long ago. There was no storms or lighting at the time either. I was on call that night and drove past it while it was up in flames, why must people be full of such hate? Anyways that's my story
My theory, after many episodes of This Old House, is that when there's water damage (seemingly what contributes most to bringing down residential construction), inevitably it seems to be caused by something that wasn't part of the original design? This house doesn't look like anybody messed with it much, if at all.
The big porches on old houses help prevent water damage. Porches and generous roof overhangs can extend to the life of buildings.
We used to rent an old wooden house from 1890 in Vermont when I was in my late 20’s. The vents for passive heating in the floor of the 2nd floor took me back to that time. The system actually kept the upstairs passably warm when sleeping in Winter. You wouldn’t want to hang out up there when not under blankets though. Thanks for this video!
I rented multiple apartments in northern VT in the early 90s. Landlords weren’t big fans of insulating pipes and we paid for it during frigid winter spells. One January my car wouldn’t start for 3 weeks because all the batteries in the area were sold out and it never got above -15F.
Love this house! You can tell at minute 11:05, it had a gabled portico that maybe came out on the front of the house. You can see its outline in the discolored brick. Someone was updating this house & stopped for some reason.
Great video!
They came to their senses?
I have never seen a man get so excited about a brick house
Like would a house tour in the UK just blow your mind?
Nothing built in the US is meant to last these days. Even old-school masonry techniques are being forgotten as older generations die off.
@@smirking8457 oh we don't build thick big brick buildings anymore, the technique has changed drastically, people struggle to demolish those kinds of buildings as they are built so well
We also gotta reuse bricks too
IMHO, this is the best vid you've ever made, Post!! I'm an old lady, and I love old houses like this one, especially in Pennsylvania. (It's move-in ready, has a coffee pot and a bathtub! If I was thirty years younger...!!) I think what you called a well is actually a cistern to collect rainwater. The "Y" eave pipes lead to a downspout which went into the hole in the top; nice soft water for laundry and absolutely free! The videos of the turnpike tunnels really took me back; some changes but mostly like I remember from childhood trips East to visit relatives in Bethlehem PA and New Brunswick, NJ. I'm glad they are still being used and maintained (ish). Many thanks, stay safe and keep up the good work!!!!
You could put a brick fence in the front yard next to the road to block the traffic some, and mark your space. You could also install those soundproof windows like they have in the city apartments. It could be a nice home. It's nice and bright. There is a man in the next town from mine who redos old bathtubs like that one and makes them beautiful.
I love it every time I see one of these old brick houses or the old farm house. Just amazing how much work went into them. I live in a converted old farm house and you can see the cuts on the wood beams which was all done by hand. Please keep showing these amazing old buildings off, I love to see them.
Also, these old houses are great. Built before any lighting. So, 20 years after they were built, a crew comes in and retro fits gas lighting throughout the house. 20 years after that a crew comes in and installs knob and tube. Ive seen some old paper tags for reels of old knob and tube wire, perfectly preserved under floor boards. 1918, Raven core wire.. Also crazy, all these old houses, everything was brought to the site via horse. horse loads of lath, bags of lime, sand, lumber. In pittsburgh we have some of the craziest hills as well. crazy to think about horse trucks hauling gas pipes or lumber or bricks to the top of a 25% grade hill. I'm reading Ktaadn by Thoreau right now. Back in the 1800's, in Maine, the loggers would build their cabins with just an axe and a frying pan. eat pancakes everyday.
I love old red brick buildings. I live in Missouri, and there are still a lot of these buildings around, especially in smaller towns. Settlement and humidity are the enemy for these buildings. We are losing them rapidly.
I can’t believe there a no cracks in the walls. The foundation must be solid as rock.
That looked like bedrock sticking up into the basement, so the walls might all be anchored to it.
I'm a great fan of older houses, but it's sad to see this one unloved.
I was lucky to spend time with my grandparents as a child, they lived in a old cottage with stone walls so thick each window sill was deep enough to sit in.
Sister's house UK. Built 1560 from locally made bricks. If it's being delivered on horse drawn wagons you bet it's local. Clay tile roof replacing the original thatch. Real give away of the age is doorways I at 5"10 have to duck through, ceilings at 6"0. Our ancestors were a lot shorter.
1560?
The tire and wheel in the basement looks like a trailer tire. That type of wheel is called a Dayton wheel, as are the similar, much larger wheels on heavy trucks. Awesome video, Post 10!
It's just a basic rim that goes on a mobile home axle.
That's a rim with a tire on it. Fits a Dayton wheel on a trailer.
Amazing how something that would be regarded as fairly ordinary here in UK could be so interesting. My 100+ year old standard semi detached house would probably look similar underneath all the paint, we still have the little fireplaces in the upstairs bedrooms.
Thank you for bringing us this excellent video, it is very interesting and informative. The brick house is very decent and strong, possibly a slate or tile roof would be better with cast iron gutters and down pipe. Being next to the highway is not so much of a problem here as it is not especially busy. A reasonable height wooden fence would help to absorb the sound from the highway and wooden shutters for the upstairs windows would take care of the noise there, they look good too. There is great potential for this property which I notice is up for sale. It may have been that somebody had started work on the house but did not have enough finance to continue or some crisis happened in their life. The house is definitely worth saving, it is certainly nice to see such a solid American house!
It's being sold for $19,950 with one acre of land.
@@wishiwas-jd9cd Thanks for that information, it is appreciated. Hopefully somebody will purchase it sooner rather than later and refurbish it to a good standard. It is certainly solid enough.
@@wishiwas-jd9cd I be interested if it had more land.
It’s almost like we build here in the United States as if something catastrophic is about to happen, almost like there is no point to build things that last. It’s sad.
I love how excited you are about this!! Thank you for sharing the passion with us! It is a very beautiful and interesting house, wish more homes these days were as interesting and well made
Around here pure brick housing is becoming rare due to concrete being cheaper in terms of labor cost. But you can see quite a few concrete buildings being lined with bricks for the looks and insulation value (less foam insulation between the concrete structure and the brick shell). Covering concrete buildings with nice looking wood shingles is also a thing here.
In the UK, you can't get a standard mortgage for a concrete cast house and it is considered a non-standard build type
I get a little nervous going through tunnels as a child I was scared they were gonna collapse as we drove through them, my parents would just laugh at me over it. There is a bridge near Delaware that has a tunnel on it that goes down under the water I am pretty sure that was the scariest tunnel ever for me. My dad took a different way back when we left on our return trip home because I pitched a fit about going back through the bridge tunnel.
As a person that lives in a brick house culture, we tend to value wooden houses, like from the US, the most; ironic how things are.
same! my house is very old and from the USSR lol
That’s so funny because brick is so much more durable than wood. Everything is made of wood here in the US. And post is right about the lumber sizes- a 2x4 and 4x4 were always less than the nominal size, but as of the recent massive inflation, like 4x lumber prices since the start of covid , I know of a friend who bought a 4x4 and it was something like 1/4” smaller than a 4x4 is supposed to be, and wouldn’t fit a pre-made mailbox post. He tried to argue with the cashier but they refused to give him a refund which sounded crazy to me. He said that all the wood was the size. Wonder if they’re trying to be cheap and shave a little more size off , or if that batch was somehow a mistake. Would like to hope the former, but I dunno!
@@MittyNuke1 Wood is very durable unless there is water damage. Many newer houses have inadequate water barrier. Codes now require sheathing and house wrap, but most of the newer materials used don't have long term usage patterns, but synthetic housewrap should help quite a bit.
I just came upon your channel tonight.. I'm subscribing. I love the amount of energy you put out when exploring abandoned places. You don't miss the interesting areas, artifacts or historical finds. If those walls could talk. 👍
Oooh!! I am europeen so when you said "never visited a brick house" I was confused, almost everyhouse here is brick 🤣 That is so sweet, I didn't know it was unfrequent in the US! Thank you for sharing your discovery ☺️🙏✨
I live in Denver. We don't have much timber out on the plains so Denver was known as the Brick City.
Ohh my, that house has so many possibilities, take it back to a regular house, turn it into a one bedroom duplex, a little coffee shop, antique store, considering the lack of indoor plumbing, I'd say it had/has an outdoor outhouse, the only reason I wouldn't buy it, it's too close to the road, and it would take some effort to get the yard back to looking good but it isn't hard, lots of brush to clean out, throw another shed up, a new front porch roof, and a canopy for the parking area, it kinda looks like it may have been a way stop for a stage coash line or for a old railroad,
How come you're put off by the road? If you installed triple glazed windows it would be very quiet inside. Remember this is a brick house, so the walls are thick.
@@Phambleton I'm the one person in my family that can trip over a twig and fall over the edge of the porch and roll out in to the far lane while a tractor trailer is slowing down to pull into the warehouse across the street and I get run over by Sandy Claws and his 8 mules
@@jamesalinio5277 Ah I see what you mean. Maybe you could put up a cheeky fence/gate just in case you trip?
@@Phambleton lol yeah, I'd have to
i love a good superlative video. and i'd buy that house in a heartbeat because its a house on property. being able to actually own land right now is literally impossible where i live. everything is being bought by Chinese billionaires for more than double the asking price. Its become such a problem that there are entire counties with almost no one living in them because people can't even afford rent
I just saw this (Feb. 2023) and it was so much fun looking at this house! Thanks for posting this. The first video of yours I watched was the one at Shasta Lake showing how the water level has dropped so much, but then I started watching some of the other vids you've posted. So much fun exploring!
I like your commentary. Most explorers don't know anything and say they dumbest shit, but you actually seem to know something about old buildings. You're right, I can't believe that basement isn't full of water.
Well we have enough brick houses in the Netherlands and it comes with a huge downside especially with older homes, really showing now with climate change the average temperatures outside getting higer. Bricks store heat. They soke up heat all day in the sun. When the sun goes down, they radiate their heat in every direction including inside your house. Outside houses something that is called "The Urban Heat Island Effect" gets worse after dark as the difference in temperature now tries to drain the heat from the bricks, making sure your garden (and the outside air) cools down much slower. Newer houses here are built with more insulation, but they still have the downside of bricks expelling their heat into the air at night. This all makes for hot neighorhoods and is a direct incentive for people to buy Aircon systems which worsen the problem as they exume even more heat. Building with wood is more durable in the long run. You'll need a good isolation one way or another nowadays, wood doesn't become a heat battery like bricks do, and wood is reusable and or compostable depending on the state it is in and how it was treated.
There is also a big advantage in this heat storing, long warm evenings! Both in the back yard and in the town.
When there is too much heat, plant a tree for some shade during the summer and in winter it drops its leaves so the sun can get to the bricks again. Keep in mind Dutch houses and towns were build for a summer temp of 25'C and winter of -5'C.
Not for 40'C like we get nowadays for a few days. In that case use the garden hose and wet the bricks, after a few minutes of extreme damp (keep windows closed!) the temp drops and you can enjoy the evening again.
Well.... it depends. I live in Phoenix, Arizona, where the temperature goes up to 120F/50C in the summer... in a brick house! The interior walls are just plaster on brick. When I bought this house, the previous owner had painted it a very trendy charcoal gray. In the summer sun, the east and west walls would soak up so much heat that you could feel it radiating off of the interior plaster, and holding your hand on it (interior) was similar to the heat of an electric blanket turned all the way up. The heat pump ran non-stop and could only bring the temperature down to about 80F/27C, which you can imagine was expensive - and I was concerned that it would burn out. The solution was simple: I painted the house a light cream color. Even in the hottest summer sun, then interior walls remain cool and the air conditioner turns out to have been perfectly sized for this house, and easily maintains a comfy 76F (during the summer, I start feeling "cold" at 74) - reducing my summer electric bill by 1/3. On the outside, the gray walls were much hotter than ambient - literally hot enough to injure skin - but now they don't get up much past the ambient temperature. Additionally, I have mature trees on three sides of the house. The shade on the walls - and the surrounding soil - significantly reduces the stored heat.
We do have a substantial urban heat island here, but the asphalt roads in my neighborhood are much, much worse offenders than the houses are.
Being 80 years old, my house isn't as efficient as a *new* wood-framed house would be, but with the updates that it has had (double-pane, UV treated windows; fresh attic insulation; recently replaced shingles in a light color; light paint on exterior) it is one of the most efficient houses that I have lived in here, in 20 years.
@@iroll A Dutch brick house has an outside layer of brick of 10 cm (little over 3 inches), a ventilation layer of 5 cm (2 inches), an insulation layer of 5 cm (2 inches) and an inside layer of brick of 10 cm (3 inches +), and a thin plaster on the inside.
That is the way houses are build in the last 50 years, before that the insulation layer wasn't there.
So heat transfer is limited by the two layers of brick that have only air between them.
Also moist transfer is blocked in this way.
From both sides it is ventilated away in the air layer between them.
So with the right way of construction you can built very efficient in brick. Houses last for 100 years without any maintenance on the walls.
@@iroll thanks for sharing your information. I am starting to hear people talk about white roofing and it's nice to hear first hand how a color can make a difference.
My grandmother's house recently caught fire and was a total loss, it had tons of lath board in the walls it was around 200 years old and that was ultimately a factor that kept it burning was the lath in the walls
i loved this video! i love your analysis of the house and the structure, etc. more abandoned house tours!
It's interesting for me to see someone's enthusiasm for something I take as being very normal. Here in the UK the vast majority of houses are brick or stone built. I myself own a stone built house which is at least 100-120 years old. This is very common in the UK - although they take maintenance and sometimes they're not the best for damp and insulation, they certainly were built to last. Thank you for sharing your enthusiastic thoughts and passion for the world around you my friend.
@3:05--"You need a big retaining wall at the rear end" ...Please tell us that Ghost 10 did not hear that comment!
Otherwise, R.I.P.
Looks like it's in the process of being fixed. Beautiful.
It was... A while ago
@@post.10 do you have a way to look into that particular city/county L&I records for that address and see what’s going on? They could just be waiting on permits.
@@bdub215 it's for sale, $19,000, owned by a bank
@@post.10 it's really cheap, like my home is by an highway and cost around 75k (because it was abandoned for ten years, originally was around 100k) and it's way smaller
@@post.10 maybe worth it for the land but too close to the Road there's no path or easy way to cross over by looks of it. The house is in the wrong place to be habitable
I love your excitement! Anytime I see a for sale sign on an abandoned house. I grab a legal pad. If I get caught, I act like I’m taking notes to possibly buy.
I wanted that car journey to last a lot longer , it was fabulous , I love going on a drive with you , thanks Post x
As someone who's lived in a 200 year old brick house for her whole life it's funny seeing someone get so excited about it lol
What a lovely house. Shame its so close to the main road. I bet its cold in winter though due to lack of insulation. Great video as usual keep them coming. Have a great Christmas everyone.
I love exploring old building. This is one of a king. Thanks for sharing and keep on!
I just love your channel! Love the old wooden floors also! Cool to be able to buy it and relocate that house on your own land away from the road.
workers definetely used this house as a shed when there was a construction (on the highway probably)
I wonder if that well doubled as a cistern - the round hole in top, the unusual drain pipes for the gutters… I wonder if the gutters used to drain rainwater into there?
Nice, strong floor joists. Just like my house, built in 1962.
Love to see it.
I just moved to Western PA and bought a brick house. They are all built into the side of mountains here. My garage opens to the street, but is basement level. My kitchen door, main floor/off the side, also street level, but the top of a hill.
I have a really odd back yard, it appears something may be buried, it's terraced. Come spring if you are still doing adventures, I would love to have someone dig around and figure out what it is.
It looks like it could be an old patio, maybe had a fire pit, retaining wall behind it, all seems to have been here since before the house. But, the retaining wall dips with the yard.
I am dying to know if something is down there.
Oh yeah, moss grows over it, not just grass, and moss only grows where it has rock to eat. It's covered in a blanket of moss.
Up the street from my house, about 2 miles, is an old abandoned high school made from bricks. This makes it even more tempting to go out and check it out, I'm sure they're (neighboring houses) used to explorers.
the big issue with this house is that it's at the bottom of the hill. moisture, debris, trees, dirt etc. will travel downwards toward the house.
That's why I was amazed that it had a dry basement
In Britain most houses are bricks and mortar. I suppose in a Tornado it doesn't really matter what your house is made of. But owning your own brick house in England is like owning your own castle. It is something we aspire to. Great work Post 10. Love your videos. Keep em coming :)
I love that little brick house..maybe it was built when the rd wasn’t very busy ..
The prevalence of brick construction in the US is largely geographical. I grew up in NC where there is a lot of red clay used in brick making. And a lot of brick houses. My childhood home was brick, with a built in cast iron tub - no feet. :-)
Brick houses are still very common. With improved transportation of materials, the economy house is now stick built with vinyl siding. There is still a lot of brick made and used in the area. Cheap to manufacture, expensive to transport.
Same KY has plenty as well. I'm sitting in one.
The thing with the hole in it, in the basement looks like it was a cistern, that collected rain water from that down spout that was rotted away on the side of the house. Looks like it was a farm house built around the 1920's if not earlier.
The combined downspout probably fed that cistern. Another awesome find Post10; thanks for sharing!
My family in Colorado used to live in abode brick houses, very cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Also we have lots of brick ranch houses in the south but alas they don’t build them much any more
Definitely would have been a duplex. In the UK we would have called them "2 up 2 down" in reference to the number of rooms. As others have pointed out, solid brick construction is rare now (suffers a lot from damp and heat loss) - brick outer skin plus cinderblock inner skin with an insulated cavity is now the norm
*and minimal construction standards - you forgot that bit.
They only suffer from damp when the cavity fails and since the cavity on old houses i.e terraces from the 1800s, is so thin, that happens fairly easy. It only takes a bit of brick or a mortar snot to bridge that gap and you will have damp problems.
@@liamholcroft7212 they suffer from damp when people can't afford to heat them.
@@OrganMusicYT heat helps but it's not the main culprit
@@liamholcroft7212I have witnessed entire streets demolished after local councils decided to install electric heaters in their housing stock, which was built in the 1950s. The residents couldn't afford the cost of heating their homes. The houses went damp and had to be demolished.
Really interesting to see this. It looks like it could be on a road near me here in the UK - very similar look and construction to so many houses we have over here. Different roof though - it would be tiles or slate here! By contrast there are hardly any wood houses here like you have in the states - I'm not sure I've ever even seen one.
It looks like it was maybe two houses to start with that got made into one later? Lovely place.
The metal roof possibly replaced a slate roof. There is a lot of slate in Pennsylvania & you still see houses with it there.
I don’t think so or if it was built that way it was converted early on based on how old I’d guess it is. Look at the upstairs. 3 of the windows out of 4 are on the “right” side. Only one on the left. Granted it could of been renovated but that wood with the cut quality and dimensions is likely 100 years old and I’d expect this house would have been built around turn of the century, 1900s. Certainly not later than the 20s or very early 30s. I would expect if it was remolded that late however that it would of likely included some electrical and plumbing. Just a strange upstairs/downstairs entry layout I think.
@@Alexlfm Separate entrances to the lounge and kitchen, but yes modelled on the old UK upstairs downstairs terrace house, at least from the outside, but because they had room it was only a single dwelling.
KILLIN' IT WITH THE SMORGASBORD OF NEW CONTENT. KILLIN' IT SIR. CHEERS FROM UPSTATE SC.
Wow your camera skills have improved greatly since your early videos. And you're correct about the lumber. They use nominal values which is smaller than the actual 2x4 or 4x4 measurements.
As a bricklayer there would be a cavity between the inside and outside walls to stop water passing through
And a damp course around the whole house
@@catalickconverta6823back then maybe a thin slate damp course as plastic wasn't around that's what we used in Australia
@@thisisbeyondajoke6748 yeah man they always coated the brickwork with bitchamin or tar to keep the damp out as well i think my house has a slate layer as well as a bitchamin layer i live in england
@@catalickconverta6823 don't break your back doing it please I got stenosis in my c4-c7 neck joints after 28 years of laborious work all for someone else but it has taken me all over Australia a big big place
When you look at the thickness of the external wall by the window frame it looks like a single skin of bricks to me, not a cavity wall. This was common in old brick properties in England, and also no damp course.
As a German, I always wanted to hear your opinion on brick houses. Especially when you compared different building styles, I really wondered what you think about the English/German style of building houses (in the end, they differ quite a bit in details, I guess. From an American point of view, they might be the same).
Did I get it correct, that you love it, but it is economically not viable in the US? Or could it be a good option, but it is just common to take the price advantage of wood? Might it be a problem of skilled workers being experienced with brick building?
I would really like to know how you would build if you would build something economical or something, which lasts long. How would you decide in real life?
The door upstairs was for putting furniture up there. No way can you get much up through those stairs. The vents in the ceiling were to let cold air fall, creating a flow of air through the house. Hot air would be pulled up through the stairwell heating the upstairs. The "well" was probably the cistern, the hole is where the downspout would go. It was probably a brick and sand filtering system to help keep the water clean. I'm sure they used it for drinking, too. Of course, they didn't have the air pollution like we do now. I was intrigued by the newspaper UNDER the rug (linoleum) flooring! I would think they used it as insulation. Fun video, thanks 😊
That really is a beautiful old house. I remember when we were kids on the way to Jones Beach, back in the wild and woolly 60's, we'd sing along to the songs on AM radio, and it would cut out under every overpass. We'd just keep on singing, and pick up the song when the car came back out. Those were such fun times!
arrrrrrrrrgh... Another one calling that old dump "beautiful."
Good bones in that place indeed. Are the windows newish double hung? Here in Sydney, Australia there are a lot of construction types but brick is most common, nowadays in brick veneer / timber stud but in the past double brick walls.
This is a beautiful old house. 2 up/ 2 down. Love the heat vents. It's got good bones. To bad it's right on the road, unless it is used commercially. You're right brick houses do last almost forever. They're easy to heat and keep cool. I grew up in a brick house and we heated with a woodstove. It was fantastic. The scenery as always is just stunning. Thanks so much for sharing your adventure. Stay safe & keep adventuring.
Ya know, I have to feel sorry for some of you people who persist in calling that disgusting, dilapidated old dump "beautiful". It makes me wonder what kind of place you live in.
You have great energy and did a great job of explaining everything. Love to see the passion 👍
814 Area code, that's a large part of Pa....in the middle - Johnstown, State College, Altoona...good heavens what were you doing out that far? And that looks rather similar to some of the older all brick homes in some parts of Philly - it's too bad the 'replacement' windows are too short for the window openings. Neat bldg, love that it's still so sturdy.... Ah! Kittatinny Mountain tunnel....Franklin Co...and the inside always reminded me of the Lincoln Tunnel in NYC..
It looks like a bog standard semi detached house in the UK that has been knocked into one house.
There are tons of houses built in the early 1900's in Eastern PA that are brick. I live in one and work in another.
He mirrors my enthusiasm for old historical stuff! I love it! I love his videos! ♥️
I loved that old house! They had a wood stove in the kitchen & an outside well. I suppose that is why the kitchen sink didn't have any taps. Thank you for the video
Your ability to see value in the most dilapidated structures is remarkable. What I saw was the expense it would take to demo that site to clear the lot. I do enjoy going on these virtual curiosity tours with you, tho.
Double glaze the front windows and the traffic noise would be minimized, many brick houses in England are far closer to far busier roads.
Do they actually enforce the laws against removing mufflers (and catalytic convertors, for that matter) in England? Here in Virginia just about every slack-jawed yokel has a pickup truck they've done both with.
What a great channel! I am subscribed and will be watching from now on
I so enjoy your excitement for life and all that comes with it. Thank you for sharing your explorations with us. Blessings from Michigan.
It's just sad how cheap people are these days
I would love me some invincible brick house
I literally had to move not too long ago after a couple years of being in a house due to it just literally falling apart from rain, the roof committed die.
Looks like at the time of recording this place was up for sale. Given how real estate's been going in the USA, and the large numbers of people moving out of cities and into more rural areas, there could be an opportunity here. I'm sure there are people who want to move into a more rural area who'd be willing to tolerate the road in front.
I love your passion for something that is common place to us in the UK. I love old houses too. Sadly, the more modern ones are timber framed because its cheaper.
Tyfs 😊
Bro I just wanna say I'm a huge fan of your videos. They are very wholesome and informative