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I'll ask this two ways...
1) Is it true that row houses are NOT absolutely, completely sealed off from one another, particularly at the roof line. I guess I'm asking to the "walls" go ALL the way to the underside of the roof, sealing the houses off from each other.
2) Are row houses sealed off from each other? (I ask because I've been told they are NOT.)
I was told that squirrels in my attic, may have come from a neighbor's house....gotten in THEIR house and come through to mine....because the houses aren't sealed off from each other under the roof line.
New or old?
By definition: A rowhouse is one of a group of low-rise residential buildings that share a common wall – but not ceilings and floors – with neighboring dwellings. Instead of side yards, townhomes have what is commonly called a "party wall" that runs the length of the house. They also often share a stretch of rooftop with adjacent properties.
And yes, they usually share the same problems, especially infestation, rodents, basement flooding, structural failures etc.
Also noise travel easily through a set of rowhouses.
Most new (since 2010) ones in Denver are sealed off.
Each unit is separated from others by a double wall of 1-inch shaft liner that runs up to the roof.
Built 1968 (69?) -- I'm in a row of four houses....looking AT the houses.....second from the lefthand end house.
Brick houses, with individual "A" frame roofs, with the A turned to the side, so looking AT the house, you're looking UP the side of the "A."
(Today they'd be called "townhouses." Some how a remodeled row house, worth a half-million...becomes.....a "townhouse)
There is supposed to be a firewall that goes top to bottom separating adjacent dwellings. Otherwise a fire on the left most dwelling would sweep through to the right most dwelling in no time. The firewall, often brick or block, is meant to prevent that.
I'm just a homeowner so forgive my for not using construction terms....
So the plywood (or some building material) the roof sits on actually touches and sits/rests on the firewall? NO spacing?
A squirrel shouldn't be able to come into the neighbor's house, and get into my attic (unless it eats its way though?)
I am pretty sure rodents can move from house to house, stay in the attic, or basement, live in the walls, run through pipes... It can happen in any kind of house.
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