I’ve been in the trades since 1980, and I won’t have a house built after the mid-80’s. That’s when the last of the mature timber lumber supply ran out. Now homes are built with selectively bred loblolly pine that gets 30 years worth of growth in 20 and it’s light like balsa. It’s garbage and part of why so many developments and new homes put up since the mid-90’s are now falling apart. I see SO much sheetrock slips, cracks, nail pops and settling it’s scary.
Yep it’s all lath. Can be a removed but it literally took a 12ga buckshot blast with no damage to anything on the other side.
Thick solid wood siding too.
That is SO glorious.
I’ve been in the trades since 1980, and I won’t have a house built after the mid-80’s. That’s when the last of the mature timber lumber supply ran out. Now homes are built with selectively bred loblolly pine that gets 30 years worth of growth in 20 and it’s light like balsa. It’s garbage and part of why so many developments and new homes put up since the mid-90’s are now falling apart. I see SO much sheetrock slips, cracks, nail pops and settling it’s scary.