OT Home construction rant

[flyboy2610]

on my most recent project i found that the sheetrock was installed with nails. what a joke.

There are special nails designed for installing drywall. I prefer to use screws, as nails can loosen up as the wooden studs dry out and shrink a bit, but drywall nails were a perfectly acceptable way to do it.

[basketcase0302]

I'd worked in many beachfront homes in Naples Florida built in the 1940's, it was my specialty. Back then, (in the 40's) the building industry used cypress mulch for "insulation" in South Florida, (real good example of building construction code differences). I was told by the owner, (at the time in his 80's) the cypress mulch "insulation" was 8"-10" think in the attic space when put in. We could barely see 1/2"-1" thick compressed cypress mulch at the time we ran our new ducts and wiring. And the original electrical wiring put in this house in the 1940's? It was was ceramic insulators with bare aluminum wire, (no insulating jacket on the wire)!
One of many reasons why NFPA came along, and why building departments started adopting life safety code.