They left the remnants of what looks like 2 chimneys and atleast a 4inch thick brick wall (our house is wood.

My notebook is 3 inches thick for our first property.

If it is as thick of metal as mine is, it wouldn't take a judge long to see that it takes more than an icicle to crush it.

Stomp textures are cheaper.As long as you roll on flat paint over that with a thick-napped roller, you'll be fine in that price range.

Some of my friends have made ADU attached with a thick (double) wall between main house and ADU.

Some of my friends have made ADU attached with a thick (double) wall between main house and ADU.

You'll hear hundreds of stories from people in the thick of many different categories. 

At some point in the late 1980's everything switched to 2x6 construction which increased the insulation thickness and energy efficiency of the houses after that point.

Originally posted by @Joe Villeneuve:Also people could still add, subtract, multiply, divide and knew what an exponent wasI also had the entire counties plat maps in one binder every lot in the county.. it was 4 inchs thick.. no G I S  LOL.. and for ranch lands I would go to the USGS office in Menlo park and buy all the quad maps..I could identify all sorts of acreages by topography of course in CA were you have mountains and streams and easy to identify landmarks it helped but I could take plat map and put a 40 on a quad map and be darn accurate enough to sell it without a survey..  

I learned from this website that you should get a good thick deal on a house just in case the market drops.