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Electricity prices climbing faster than inflation.
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It's far beyond old house we're dealing with here, the expansions the original building had went through includes near doubling the foundation footprint, gutting it and changing it probably several times throughout it's life, like the stairs to the 2nd floor when the 2nd floor was added was originally on the other side of the house, not to mention the addition of the backrooms on the first floor that wasn't integrated with the rest of the first floor in terms of air circulation. And for the fun part, there's asbestos in the house, how much? We know the answer is "Yes" for sure, and I'm pretty sure the insulation has asbestos in it too.
Like from what my dad had told me, the city documents for the property shows that the building had been expanded, changed, and added onto at least 20+ times throughout it's life.
oh awesome, that means that tearing it all down and starting from scratch is even more expensive, cos you gotta hire someone to safely bag the asbestos. or do it yourself and die from cancer in a decade.
The only reason we know there's asbestos in the house is because we were going to tear all the carpet in the house out before moving in, then we began to find asbestos underneath several layers of flooring under the carpet in the back room of the first floor, which made us decide to not rip up that one carpet in the back room at all. As for the insulation, I'm not exactly 100% on my assumption of it having asbestos too, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was.
Sure would be a bad time to learn that the metal roof was leaky in one spot, and would cause us have to set up a drip bucket in the attic that would have to be emptied out every time it rained, and said attic space had all the insulation completely exposed to open air, and didn't have the money to properly deal with that issue for several years....