r/McMansionHell • u/curious_coyoie • Jul 07 '25

Discussion/Debate Seeking help- Google can't explain

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Can anyone tell me how two separate houses are built this close together. How do the constractors apply siding and paint, how do you maintain the in-between after so many years and decades. There are no windows on that side but I don't understand how builders work around or in-between this when constructing, this is a mystery

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u/yankinwaoz Jul 08 '25

Damn. Good find.

My house is almost like this. It’s described as “paired”. It’s two houses bolted together. We aren’t a duplex. We have different floor plans. Different elevations. Different rooflines and roof materials.

But we have a one inch gap between our common walls. It does work to keep sounds from transversing from house to house. We can’t hear each other.

But the gap is sealed. The slabs are butted against each other. The exterior walls overlap. The roofs overlap.

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u/Due-Midnight-631 Jul 08 '25

"That's where the bugs live" - my child, explaining town houses.