WHAT would YOU do?

[vacerator]

Matt, a housing plan concept which has returned in some locales. Chicago suburbs, and some Florida places have back ally's/streets.
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[phillymatt53]

Matt, a housing plan concept which has returned in some locales. Chicago suburbs, and some Florida places have back ally's/streets.
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My home, according to the Deed that I have, was made in 1940.
And proof of that that I found in my home actually confirms that.
In 2008 when I remodeled the bathroom, I found a newspaper dated September 24th, 1940, which was stuffed in the wall apparently by a construction worker who did the bathroom installation.
I still have that newspaper!
The design of our homes here was a new approach to building practices of the time, by putting the garage under the home, directly under my dining room.

 

[sel8207]

I actually don't mind having those new meters installed.
My bills are still accurate.
And it hasn't affected, as far as I know, with my life.
And it better not.

there are some reasonably priced field detectors on amazon.....

 

[pstehle]

My home is an 1850sf brick and block rancher, which I was told was moved several miles to the elevated lot it sits on. How one moves an eggshell that far without a single crack I don't know... Much less pour a new slab and get plumbing (2 iron bathtubs in original tiled alcoves!) aligned correctly. I mean, they CAN'T have yanked the slab up with the house, right? I looked up the city aerial photographs, lo and behold, empty lot in 1982, house, pool, fence and trees there in 1986. There's also the matter of the gas lines and flues for a furnace and water heater, on a cul-de-sac with no gas main. Found the clincher when I renovated the hall bath, an "ok to close" tag from the electrical inspection dated 1967.

 

[phillymatt53]

My home is an 1850sf brick and block rancher, which I was told was moved several miles to the elevated lot it sits on. How one moves an eggshell that far without a single crack I don't know... Much less pour a new slab and get plumbing (2 iron bathtubs in original tiled alcoves!) aligned correctly. I mean, they CAN'T have yanked the slab up with the house, right? I looked up the city aerial photographs, lo and behold, empty lot in 1982, house, pool, fence and trees there in 1986. There's also the matter of the gas lines and flues for a furnace and water heater, on a cul-de-sac with no gas main. Found the clincher when I renovated the hall bath, an "ok to close" tag from the electrical inspection dated 1967.

I would tend to think that any locations of the underground utility services were determined at the original locations via measurements from the home's exterior walls.
Confirmation of those measurements would be clear after the move.
To me that makes sense, and common sense.
But what do I know?