View Poll Results: How old is your Canadian House?
0-5
9
14.06%
6-10
4
6.25%
11-15
8
12.50%
16-20
7
10.94%
21-25
7
10.94%
25+
29
45.31%
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How old is your house?
Apr 10th 2010 | 2:03 pm
#16
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From: Valemount, BC, Canada
Re: How old is your house?
bathroom is on the middle/ground floor, right next to the kitchen 
Let's just say that you can definitely tell it was designed by a single 18 year old bloke, with no female input, LOL!
Apr 10th 2010 | 2:27 pm
#17
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From: Canada->WA->Melbourne
Re: How old is your house?
We lived in a 1960s bungalow for 11 years until we sold it last year to move to Australia. The buyer's inspector told me, based on his 20 years of experience, older houses generally are of better quality. He's inspected new houses (less than 5 years old) that have serious workmanship problems and safety issues..."just slapped up" as he said. He reckons that older houses were built to better standards decades ago. Anyway, just his opinion. Our house didn't give us any problems the whole time we lived there although I swear the guy who built it in the 60s must have had a drinking problem or didn't use a level because there's some interior basement walls that are noticeably crooked.
Apr 11th 2010 | 4:21 am
#18
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From: South of Calgary
Re: How old is your house?
We lived in a 1960s bungalow for 11 years until we sold it last year to move to Australia. The buyer's inspector told me, based on his 20 years of experience, older houses generally are of better quality. He's inspected new houses (less than 5 years old) that have serious workmanship problems and safety issues... "just slapped up" as he said. He reckons that older houses were built to better standards decades ago. Anyway, just his opinion. Our house didn't give us any problems the whole time we lived there although I swear the guy who built it in the 60s must have had a drinking problem or didn't use a level because there's some interior basement walls that are noticeably crooked.
Apr 11th 2010 | 5:36 am
#19
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Joined: May 2006
Posts: 152
From: Gordon Head, Victoria
Re: How old is your house?
Ours was built in 1986. We had its first new roof since it was built put on last week. It now looks decidedly less hairy than it did. 
Apr 11th 2010 | 6:35 am
#20
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From: Canada->WA->Melbourne
Apr 12th 2010 | 12:06 am
#21
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Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 6,345
From: Ottineau
Re: How old is your house?
Good one...ours is 1 year older and at times I think it was built on a Friday afternoon before a long weekend.
Does your neighbourhood have that lovely charm of above ground poles etc that don't seem to be a feature of similar age neighbourhoods here on the not so dark side.
Does your neighbourhood have that lovely charm of above ground poles etc that don't seem to be a feature of similar age neighbourhoods here on the not so dark side.
I've been told by a neighbour, who was already living here, that this house went up extremely quickly. It had already been mostly built elsewhere and the developed changed his mind. It came here in sections and was glued together.
Apr 12th 2010 | 7:12 am
#22
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Re: How old is your house?
I have noticed that many areas of Gatineau built in the 80's and 90's were built w/o underground utilities and it stands out from similar type homes in 613. A prime example is on the south side of Autoroute 50 opposite where the Costco used to be.
