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According to Wikipedia’s history of nails, wire (round) nails came out in about 1860. I’ve lived in 4 houses built before 1930 That were all full of them. Cut n
by dwater 5y ago
According to Wikipedia’s history of nails, wire (round) nails came out in about 1860. I’ve lived in 4 houses built before 1930
That were all full of them. Cut nails continued to be used for masonry through the present.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoWhat about galvanized nails? Surely those did not exist even 150 years ago?
- quietbritishjim 5y agoGalvanization is a process that happens after initial manufacturing of the nail. To get to that stage, it must already have been made by one of those two techniques.
- willmadden 5y agoWell, I do know that cut/square nails are vastly superior to the glorified sharpened steel wire we use today. Square nails don't cause wood to split like rounded wire nails do. It's a great example of older superior technology being replaced due to cost.
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- brianwawok 5y agoThe flipside being, when is the last time you heard of a house falling apart because the modern nails weren't good enough? Sometimes good enough and 10x cheaper is the right call.
- BizarroLand 5y agoIf you are making the home out of old growth lumber and stone, using materials meant to last is vital to the longevity of the home as well. If you're using engineered or dimensional lumber from 15 year pine, getting 75 years out of the home without major structural upgrades is going to be a rarity so you might as well use wire nails. Most of those nails would outlast the home anyway.
- buildsjets 5y agoThis company has been manufacturing galvanized nails since 1819 (203 years), and their current factory building has been making galvanized nails continuously since 1848 (174 years). http://web.archive.org/web/20210612014407/https://www.tremontnail.com/searchgalvanizednails.htm http://web.archive.org/web/20210612014407/https://www.tremon...
- worthless-trash 5y agoThey might have, i saw non wire nails being used in housing built in 1960.