Older homes renovation

[Melanie Walker]

For those of you that BRRR older homes (say built around 1900 or earlier )...what do you do about the plumbing and electricity? Do you update everything at a huge cost? Or just hope it lasts another 30+ years?!

[Account Closed]

Around here most homes that are that old have already had one or both updated at some point, but they could have been updated in 1960 and now you are faced with the same question again. We have worked on several older homes like this and looked at many more, and my advice would be to wait until you are familiar enough with those items to answer those questions for yourself - if you are on here asking, it is likely you will run into lots of issues in an older home that end up being a surprise problem. Once you are familiar, you can weigh the pros and cons of replacing or not replacing, understand if something needs to be replaced or not - every house, esp one that old, will be a different case. If you are going to replace, you just factor redoing the plumbing, electric etc into the purchase price - but to do that you must know the cost, know what other issues are likely to come up as added expenses, what is required by code in your area, etc.