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To: Ilaine who wrote (39471)	10/9/1999 10:02:00 PM
From: melinda abplanalp	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Not many brick houses here. There are wood, stucco, shingle mostly. Some people do a little brick treatment but that's it. Shingle is expensive to insure. Most older homes are wood or stucco. I am looking in the 1920's to 1930's range I think. Most of those are single level homes. Basically friends and family are trying to scare me into another condo/townhouse type home. I want my own HOUSE with a BACKYARD.

To: Ilaine who wrote (39471)	10/9/1999 10:31:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Agree bigtime on the prep. When our crusty shack needed a new face, I hired a pro. We had four GOOD layers on top of one REALLY BAD layer - it had turned to chalk on the stucco. Musta not used alkali-rated paint on taht first coat, the dweebs. So in summer it was like a bad sunburn ... the paint would pull off in big shingles and canoe shapes from the cuts where the new windows went in. It took 3 times the estimated time to power-wash all that off to bare stucco. In fact the painter ran out of day, and we worked a deal where he would skip a day, leave the power wash unit with me, and I would do what I could. I got it done (those power washers are like machine guns ... sustained recoil!) but boy did my shoulders let me have it for the next week. Brick is uncommon in the Bay Area ... the cost of properly quake-bracing it is a dealbreaker. Back East, the brick carries the house; out here the house needs to carry the brick. It gets impractical fro ordinary dwellings.