We discovered yesterday that an add-on room in house has no studs in it. Without ripping out the sheetrock, all we can tell is that it each wall was framed as a rectangle with nothing in the middle (used the old smacking method and the sheetrock flexes all the way across, then used a stud finder and it only goes off in the corners). The neighbor's grandmother lived here in the 70s, and he remembers the wall having wood paneling until it was remodeled 10 years ago and sheetrock was put up. He didn't see the remodel, and doesn't remember what company did it.
We also know that the house was built in 1940, and had no electricity until this room was added onto the house. The fuse box is in this room as well. So, given that it has fuses, that helps confirm that it was before the 70s that it was built because if I recall correctly, they started routinely using breakers in the 70s.
Did they use rebar in walls before 1970? How safe is this wall? What should we do?
2007-03-05
12:12:56
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