Re: How long should houses last?

Joy Beeson schrieb:
> In the early forties, my father demolished a building in one day, and
> his heaviest piece of equipment was a Farmall C.  
> 
> Easy to demolish, we've got.  What's needed for your vision is
> buildings that can be taken apart and put back together in different
> configurations.  

People have been predicting that kind of modular housing since the 
1950s. AFAIK, the idea more or less died with the oil crisis because 
it's not easy to have a modular house that does not leak heat like a
sieve.

I know the US are different in the way they build houses, but around 
here, you can expect that in something like 10 years, new houses will 
have to pass a mandatory blower door test. I don't see a modular house 
that will pass such a test without prohibitively expensive reworking of 
the outer skin.

mawa