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Plywood under our siding. Our family found this out when we had to remove siding for repairs and we found that all it had was our crappyass masonite siding nailed straight to the frame of the house with insulationin between the wall studs. Our house was built in 1984. Was this against code back then? I'm thinking it may be because we have other shoddy construction around the house, such as plubing not being glued and whatnot. Hell, may dad and I had to rip up the floor on the side of the house to replace floor joists because of water damage from a deck that was butted up against the house. Well anyway, what can we do about there not being any plywood on the outside of our house?
 
I'll be damned if that was within code in '84. I'm pretty sure that all of North America had higher standards than that long before your house was built. That's just plain shoddy construction. And what sucks the most is that since you found it, you basically gotta fix it. The only logical way I see it is to take down all the siding, check for water damage/rot, and put up plywood before reinstalling siding.

Just from your post, Riplox, your house scares me.
Quite frankly, I would fix it and get the hell out before anything else is found.
 
When will you learn to build houses out of bricks and mortar?

My parents bought a house where the plumbing was all messed up. They had to get it all re-done.
Then years later, and a few houses, they bought another house off the brother of the plumbing screwed up house and the wiring was all messed up. They had to get that re-done aswell 👎
 
Move to another house if there is too much problem, don't waste your money and time.
It may be just the pick of the iceberg (sp?).
 
ExigeExcel
When will you learn to build houses out of bricks and mortar?

My parents bought a house where the plumbing was all messed up. They had to get it all re-done.
Then years later, and a few houses, they bought another house off the brother of the plumbing screwed up house and the wiring was all messed up. They had to get that re-done aswell 👎
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They do build houses of brick in America, but they also put plywood on the wall before the brick, they don't just have insulation and then brick. I have brick on the front of my house, but plywood was put up before the brick.
 
Well, we didnt buy the house new. We're the second owner, but there were renters living in it before us. We've lived in it for 8 years now. My dad called one of our our friends whos in construction and he said its common practice even today to not use plywood all over the house. He said that all that's required is plywood on the corners. Go figure...Oh and btw, moving isnt an option right now. Besides, the more we fix up the house, the higher its market value increases.
 
Riplox
Well, we didnt buy the house new. We're the second owner, but there were renters living in it before us. We've lived in it for 8 years now. My dad called one of our our friends whos in construction and he said its common practice even today to not use plywood all over the house. He said that all that's required is plywood on the corners. Go figure...Oh and btw, moving isnt an option right now. Besides, the more we fix up the house, the higher its market value increases.
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Yeah, but if you can't get out of the house when you sell it, what you have invested in it, it isn't worth it. You will lose money if the market value is less than the what you have invested in it.
 
icemanshooter23
Can't you sue the contractor or something?
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No because it is not against building code.

I think that building codes change by area of residency. If you just put up siding here, snow would melt and come in.
 
What may not be common practice today, doesn't mean it was wrong then. Building codes often change drasticly when they do. Everything is learned though trial and error, or the lesson learned through an act of mother nature.

Everything is built on specs that manufactors claim their products can preform. If the specs of the siding that is put on the outside of your home was in accordance to the 1984 building code of North Carolina, then, there was nothing wrong.

If in 2,5, or even 10 years the product doesn't work, or North Carolina feels they don't like that way of building anymore, for whatever reason, the code is changed. This does not mean every house that was built that way has to change. If that were the case, every the time the code was updated in any state everyone would be forced to remodel their home.

It sucks, but when something is discovered like that it falls on the current home owner to update the aged home. Just something anyone an older home most go through.

If you want to look into it, your local libary should have archives on older codes.
 

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