Of working on a couple remodels in really old houses lately .Post and beam framing. Hand hewn beams. One was built around 1820. What’s some of the work that challenges you and makes you smile.

I like old houses that were built by craftsmen. It is a different game today. See how fast and how cheap you can make it and meet code and move on to the next one.

Several of these were under the kitchen floor of the house my son and his wife bought this past spring. Not sure what kind of craftsmanship it is lol but he is redoing the whole house anyway. I thought it was pretty cool. Probably not a menards close by back then.

I've seen some old stairways built 100 years ago that I could not do now as well done with modern tools.

We lived in a block house in the 50tys,and my parents built a new house in the 1962!
a German immigrant built the kitchen cabinets by hand for a few bucks and food.
Times have changed!!

Working for a few bucks and food may well be coming back soon!

my Great Aunts house got indoor plumbing in 47, the year my grandma moved out of it , it had a kitchen sink probably from around 1900 on but it was on a dry well until 4 years ago when we ran a pipe over to the stack under the addition from 47

now in 1888 my great great grandfather built the house , all the rafters are cedar poles about 4-5 inches around with wide hemlock planking over them 14-16 inch wide planks about 5/4 thick maybe up to 6/4
and every last one of them was full of knot holes about this time he owned a 1/3 of the local saw mill and was harvesting wood lots for his boat building , so what do you do with every knot holed plank , build a house

the the beams in the basement are hune top and bottom but the sides still have the bark
there is the original foundation and about 2 feet inside that the basement foundation , some years after the house was built they dug a basement under it
the basement is about 12x15 the house is around 20x25 in that original section

the line had to run under the kitchen cabinet , down through the floor at the front edge of the cabinet and over about 4 feet , this dropped it down to where there was an opening , then it had to curve and run between the original foundation and the basement wall till it got out into the addition then curve and go into the stack

we had some 1 1/4 inch black abs pipe , laid it out in the sun in the front yard to get it flexible then in one long snake in the door through the kitchen down the hatch through the opening and between the walls and out to near the stack before it cooled.
I had to heat the last section to the stack to bend it a bit more with the heat gun and now it flows great

used a no-vent under the sink , so it makes a little noise when you dump a sinks worth of dish water but it is a whoosh with a buurrraap a the end sucking air through the spring sealed -no-vent , it lets air in but not out

for a hundred plus years they were so so carful not to put any grease down the dry well
as much as they could be about every 30-40 years it got re-dug