1940 House Concrete Walls

1940s 1950s typical features of 1940s 1950s houses included.

1940 house concrete walls.

A hipped or gabled roof a variation was the use of the dutch gable on some state houses with a pitch of 30 40 tile asbestos cement shingle or corrugated sheet roofing shallow boxed eaves a suspended timber floor usually with a concrete perimeter foundation wall. In 1940s homes through to 1953 i think i see more high contrast bathrooms. Inside walls are sheathed with smooth wallboard and floors laid with durable strip hardwood. Streamline deco jazz age 1940s high contrast color schemes.

A section about 3 feet long along the 1st rung of blocks is cracking horizontal as though it were pushing out over the smooth fascia of the pad underneath. Before the 1950s foundations were constructed of a variety of stone or cinder block materials. How to remodel a 1940s bathroom. These high contrast color schemes are a carryover look from the streamline jazz age era.

Asbestos cement was used in the 1940s and 1950s for wall and roof claddings and also in the 1960s for floor coverings and spray on textured ceilings. Concrete block has been used as a building material for more than a century. The pros cons of concrete block house construction. If your house has sheet cladding from this period including corrugated cement based roof cladding or sparkly textured ceilings check whether they contain asbestos before working on them.

Some of the most magnificent architectural examples of the builders art that line. Black bullnose or dark green or maroon bullnose depending on the field tile color. Concrete became widely used in the late 1940s with poured concrete and concrete blocks becoming standard. Most houses built in the 1940s 60s featured a timber floor supported either by a continuous reinforced concrete perimeter wall and precast concrete piles or by piles without foundation walls.

Footings that support foundation walls are constructed underground often allowing the. Kitchen layouts feature the classic work triangle and unlike many homes built before 1940 there was at least one bathroom. Other variations included cast in situ concrete corners with the remaining support provided by piles or for sloping sites jackframing on. I have a 1940 s cinder block one story home on a concrete slab in south texas.