I may be biased, because I live in a city filled with houses over 100 years old, and we get incessant rain. They seem to hold up fine. Not sure how long they’ll last but there hasn’t been any push to replace them.

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ragall 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Have you ever done a mold spore count in your house ? There's a hypothesis that, due to living in stick frame houses, a large part of the American population might be suffering from a low dose chronic mold intoxication which shows up as a heightened state of inflammation.

> I may be biased, because I live in a city filled with houses over 100 years old, and we get incessant rain. They seem to hold up fine

I wouldn't be so sure.

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loandbehold 3 hours ago | parent [-]

In places like Boston there are many 100+ years old stick frame houses. They hold up just fine. Properly built wooden houses don't get any mold.

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ragall 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Very few are properly built, especially in the last decades. Asymptotically to zero.

	▲	loandbehold 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I have many friends who own houses built in the last 10 to 30 years ago. None of them have any issues with mold.