Single-family house built in 1946 - what should be considered?

we are looking at a house from 1946, 155 sqm fully basemented, this weekend. So far, among other things, has been done.

155 sqm and blown-in insulation (i.e. double-shell) doesn't sound like poor people as builders at first, but 1946 is still at most post-war period and accordingly suspect for economizing building.

Thank you for your contributions. Sounds more like a project and an adventure than a relaxed house purchase...

Thank you for your posts. Sounds more like a project and adventure than a relaxed house purchase...

Unbeatable for the price, though? Besides, these are not issues that cannot be solved. Maybe the builder at the time was still wealthy after the war and built properly?

Thanks for your contributions. Sounds more like a project and adventure than a relaxed house purchase...

You just have to know the building eras and know what to look out for and how to find it out. But yes, I would consider houses built later (sixty years and younger) or earlier (Weimar period) as better hunting grounds.

Maybe the builder at the time was still wealthy after the war and built properly?

You seem to have no idea about the post-war period.

You seem to have no idea about the post-war period.

That is correct, so 1946 is probably particularly critical? How exactly does this manifest in the substance? Thin walls? Structural integrity at the limit?

In 1950 it then possibly did not look quite as critical? When I look at how a police commissioner erected our house in 1950 (200+ m² with 2 outbuildings) in bombed-out Nuremberg, I do wonder how much shortage there really was. Although you can partly tell it by the walls with brick rubble (not thin, but partly recycled material used).

then 1946 is probably particularly critical? How exactly does that manifest in the substance? Thin walls? Structural limits? In 1950 that might no longer have looked quite so critical?

1946: many key workers had not yet returned from prisoner of war camps, the Trizone was still administered by the Allies, logically there were no peacetime organized economic conditions yet, the currency reform was still in the future, any existing personal assets did not yet have a clean slate. Many late-born people imagine the end of the war like a light switch, all clouds immediately pushed aside. Blessed are the ignorant. I always say, people without great-grandparents nearby are actually orphans. An air layer back then had little to do with knowledge about insulation, but much more with saving materials. So also a form of thin walls, if you see it that way. Structural limits, yes and no: light walls in the attic hardly burden the wooden ceiling, ground floor ceiling and roof structure often form a unit (similar to today’s truss roofs), the roof structure supports tiles well but must first be checked for suitability for photovoltaics or the like. 1950: the construction industry is hungry for growth, patchwork covered with plaster is not uncommon. I have already mentioned several times that the 1950s were several decades in terms of construction technology and lasted until about 1963.