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Old 12-12-11, 10:07 PM   #54
BrianAbington
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The house my family lived in for the first 15 years of my life was built in the 1890's. My parents had a small section of exterior siding replaced and we found shredded news paper used to insulate the walls, the tops we could find were dated from the mid 1950's. I don't know if news paper was common insulation in those days but it had all settled down to the bottom 2 ft of the wall.

Talk about a fire hazard!
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