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ragalltoday at 2:40 PM1 replyview on HN

It's not any different from having to renovate a 40's house in the US. You'll have to redo all the plumbing and electrical system to current code. Corrugated tubes have been common since the 90s and mandatory shortly thereafter.


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lazidetoday at 3:36 PM

Most European housing is made of concrete, stone, or brick.

It absolutely is different from typical US housing, because unless you want to run surface mount everything (which most people don’t in residential), it’s an insane amount of work to run new anything.

‘40’s homes in the US, you typically just tear down to the studs, re-run new stuff, and throw up new drywall. Boom, done.

Unless you’re in a place that did block/brick etc like some of the big cities, then yeah it’s a nightmare there too.

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