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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!

Yeah. At least asbestos and lead would just kill you. I also miss watching my brothers light their smokes off the aluminum wiring arcs coming out of out of our kitchen plug ins. If you want to get nostalgic about old houses you really have to go back to the days of 2x4's actually being two inches by four inches. The rest is just wive's tales. When done properly, there's literally no comparison to today's building code and materials.

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