The house I'm moving to was built in 1841. At first I wasn't hot on the location of the structure, kind of near the bottom of a big, big hill. talking to some local farmer neighbors changed my mind- the house is north-south facing, protected from the winds that go ripping across the hilltops, and across the road from a plentiful trout stream. "Those old timers knew exactly what they were doing. They didn't build for views, they built for practicality, functionality and warmth." I asked another naive question too, if I should have a structural engineer look at it during inspection due to its' age..."That's a brick house built on a stacked stone foundation. It's been there 200 years and I guaran-dam-tee it will be there for 200 more." Good point.
Speaking of old fashioned, I landed in either Albany or Syracuse (don't remember which) and saw an actual bank of honest to god pay phones! I actually stopped for a minute and just looked at them, remembered the "old days" and headed on...
Most of the houses around here are on the "pile of rocks" foundation, too. Hell on drywall if your joints are tight, but I don't think they'll be collapsing in my lifetime.
Eh, incandescents had their days. LEDs are better. LED's are more efficient, and last longer. I'm an avid saltwater reef tank keeper, have been for decades. When LEDs came out, there was enough skepticism that you could grow the lowest of light requiring corals. Well, that cynicism has been blown out of the water. Now, with technological advances, the only thing a metal halide lighting system has over a LED set up does over a reef tank is that the electric bill will be much larger on the incandescent lit tank.
