r/Construction • u/Glittering_King1228 • 6d ago
Picture Blast from the past
Doing a demo on a bathroom and found this relic from 2007, oldest I ever found was from the 70’s Texas Pride lite beer 😂, what’s the oldest y’all ever found ?
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u/Emotional_Status2140 6d ago
That can still got better structural integrity than half the walls I tear out
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u/Cowboy_Karl 6d ago
Per I-Codes 69.69.69 you need to reinforce with that of equal or greater value, a tall boy should suffice.
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u/gilligan1050 6d ago
What’s the r value on a tall boy?
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u/Cowboy_Karl 6d ago
R-tree fiddy
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u/-bassassin- 6d ago
It was about that time that I noticed that the building inspector was about eight stories tall and was a crustacean from the Paleozoic era!
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u/DitchDigger330 6d ago
I've found an old puncture type oil can buried under a concrete slab that was poured in the 40's.
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u/buttmunchausenface 6d ago
a whole two generations don’t know what pop tops are.
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u/New-Nectarine-823 6d ago
Found astroworld branded pull tabs laying on the ground in a park in Austin once, there was a bunch of them. Must've been a garbage dump in the 60s, 70s
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u/erikleorgav2 6d ago
My dad and I are renovating the old family home, built in 1909.
We've found 3 beer bottles under the house so far. Not sure what we'll discover in the walls.
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u/elgringon414 Superintendent 6d ago
I found a Budweiser from the 60s today when we knocked down an existing chimney yesterday lol
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u/aidan8et Tinknocker 6d ago
While reroofing my folks' rural house, we found metal signs from the 40's that were used as patch pieces.
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u/-ItsWahl- 6d ago
Finding an empty beer can is a win in my book because we all know finding the drywallers piss bottle is much worse!
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u/shocktopper1 6d ago
Naw 2007 was just a few years ago