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trtcttc said:
Might be a stupid question, but are most of these older apartments in this view, wood frame or concrete? Is there a time frame in which a wood frame condo needs to be torn down and rebuilt?
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The Beltline, Mission and Lower Mount Royal have a lot of 4 storey concrete apartment buildings (3 storeys above ground and a basement level partially underground)
The structure of the buildings themselves is usually in good shape.
 
trtcttc said:
Might be a stupid question, but are most of these older apartments in this view, wood frame or concrete? Is there a time frame in which a wood frame condo needs to be torn down and rebuilt?
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Traditionally, anything over 4 storeys had to be concrete or steel. A wood building should probably last 80-100 years, but with god maintenance can last much longer. The determining factor is usually density, 80 years ago the city was much smaller and needed less density, so now older buildings are torn down and replaced with much larger buildings.
 
Mountain Man said:
Traditionally, anything over 4 storeys had to be concrete or steel. A wood building should probably last 80-100 years, but with god maintenance can last much longer. The determining factor is usually density, 80 years ago the city was much smaller and needed less density, so now older buildings are torn down and replaced with much larger buildings.
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And as with most things, it depends on how well building was built. I used to stay in a wood framed apartment building in Fort Mac that was only 8 years old but, felt like it falling apart.
 
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