Journal: News & Comment

Sunday, March 31, 2002
# 8:30:00 PM:

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How to determine the age of your house

James Lileks has a cool tip to help you figure out the age of any older house you might live in or be visiting:

If the toilet's the original item, flip over the tank lid and look for the date stamp. I don't know where I learned that, or why they did it -- they don't seem to do it much anymore, but old toilet lids bore the month, date and year of manufacture.

I'm going to check ours shortly. I wonder if toilet makers were still dating their works in 1967?


Update: Yes they were. Our toilet was made on May 23, 1966. It must have been in storage until they built our house the next year.

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